Sony gets on the mobile gaming bandwagon with ForwardWorks Corporation

The advancement of technology smartphones and its unstoppable expansion has turned the mobile video game market into too big a piece of cake enough to ignore it, and the big video game companies are dedicating more and more resources so that we can download their games and fill their coffers. An example of this is Electronic Artsand its mobile division offers more benefits than many of its large console IPs.

Microsoft has already published several exclusive games to promote its Windows Phone, Nintendo via DeNa has immersed itself fully in the world of mobile phones and has recently published MiiTomoand the next to move has been Sony with the announcement of the creation of its own studio focused on creating video games for iOS and Android.

With the name of ForwardWorks Corporationthe studio will take advantage of its knowledge and experience in consoles to transfer some of the iconic PlayStation IPs and characters. For the moment the study will focus on the Asian market and on casual experiences, something similar to what Nintendo has done, so it is reasonable to think that the titles will also reach the West.

We will have to see how Sony does with this new study after the failure of the PlayStation Mobile experienceand the fact is that the costs of publishing with the framework and the unattractiveness of bringing low-quality games to PlayStation Vita meant a setback in sales and led to the closure of the division in March 2015, just a year ago.