Sony Has a Smartphone App Smash Hit That Few Realise

No phoney

by Sammy Barker Thu 14th Sep 2017

Fate/Grand Order is the biggest mobile game in the world right now. It also happens to be published by Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. New data shows that the free-to-play role-playing game inspired by the Fate/stay night visual novel was not only the top grossing iOS and Android app in Japan last month – where it dethroned Monster Strike after a spell of over two years at the top – but was also the biggest success story globally.

The game itself has been available in Japan for over two years, but recently launched in the United States as well. Sony’s starting to get more and more serious about mobile game development, having recently founded ForwardWorks – a new division within Sony Interactive Entertainment dedicated to developing software for smartphones.

[source neogaf.com]

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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Flaming_Kaiser
Thu 14th Sep 2017

Scary i hate mobile games.

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Kidfried
Thu 14th Sep 2017

Good for them but as @Flaming_Kaiser put quite scary too.

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get2sammyb
Thu 14th Sep 2017

@Kidfried @Flaming_Kaiser Why is it scary?

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Rgeneb1
Thu 14th Sep 2017

Hoping for a UK release at some point. With a bit of luck the US version will do well, otherwise probably not.

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Wazeddie22
Thu 14th Sep 2017

I don't even have a smart phone so why would I get excited about Sony's smartphone games.
I hope their increasing interest in mobile gaming is not going to decrease their in consoles..

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Hapuc
Thu 14th Sep 2017

Of course i use to remember this game making a milion a day back in it's prime(maybe it still does)...when Pokemon Go was the craze this game was bigger in Japan...Fate is one of the biggest mobile games right now and it's no wonder we have Fate/Apocrypha fate Haven's feel movies coming out.

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SKC_Diamond
Thu 14th Sep 2017

Wow i didn't even realise and i play the dam game

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Flaming_Kaiser
Thu 14th Sep 2017

@get2sammyb If they smell the easy money we get massive amounts of Mobile garbage instead of good games.

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Unashamed_116
Fri 15th Sep 2017

@Flaming_Kaiser I'm sure they can make both mobile games and console games. This has been out for two years already, and their console output has been huge recently. Also, this may be both a mobile game AND good. If it's this popular, it has to have something to recommend it.