Sony Music Entertainment may wholly own indie publishing label Unties, but the fact that it’s publishing more Nintendo Switch than PlayStation 4 titles these days doesn’t make for great optics. The subsidiary – which is totally independent of Sony Interactive Entertainment – has signed a bunch of new games, and is bringing a pretty meaty lineup to the PAX West 2018 showfloor at the end of the month.
Among the titles is Hidetaka ‘SWERY’ Suehiro’s photography simulator The Good Life, which was successfully crowd-funded earlier in the year, and will release on the PS4 and PC in 2019. It’s also picked up Switch racer Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers, which launched in Japan last year and will deploy worldwide on 30th August. Other titles in its portfolio include horror adventure game 3rd Eye and dungeon crawler Necrosphere – both of which will come to the PS4 and Switch.
We’ve included its full lineup for PAX West 2018 below, as compiled by Gematsu:
- Battloon (Switch, PC, Mac) – 2019
- Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers (Switch) – August 30
- The Good Life (PS4, PC) – 2019
- Giraffe and Anika (PS4, Switch, PC) – First Half of 2019 (PC)
- The Midnight Sanctuary (PS4, Switch, PC) – September 6
- Necrosphere (PS4, Switch) – TBA
- Olija (PC, Other Platforms) – Winter 2018
- Tiny Metal (PS4, Switch, PC) – Available Now
- Tokyo Dark Remembrance (PS4, Switch) – Winter 2018
- 3rd Eye (PS4, Switch, PC) – 2019
Do any of these titles take your fancy? Are you bemused by Sony Music Entertainment’s insistence on muscling into the gaming industry? Stroke your chin in the comments section below.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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I have to ask why but anything to bolster the bottom line of their music business I suppose.
The reason I see them putting more on Switch than PS4 right now is simply because it's the hot thing with less competition on the store.
That's the thing with Music, as many stores as possible and the hottest one will get you noticed. It's how iTunes exploded back in the day. That same logic applies to games.
They are in it for the money, and if you are publishing indie games, we know where the big bucks are for right now. Can't fault that logic.
Look on the bright side, sure these guys may be publishing more Switch games than PS4 games, but at least PS4 gets more games, period.
I thought Tiny Metal looks potentially quite fun. But needs a Vita version for me to buy it, which I appreciate isn't likely at this point.
Tokyo Dark was a square Enix Collective Game on PC. I’m surprised they switched publishers for the consoles version Tokyo Dark Remembrance. Sony does seem like an odd choice when it also coming out on switch but they clearly happy to publish cross-platform.
I had completely forgotten about Tokyo Dark Remembrance. I need to remember to pick that up whenever it hits the Switch.
Dare I google "Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers" to see what it actually is?
Weird, but makes sense to somebody there.
I guess I'm not gonna check their games out then.
@CK97 Why?
It’s weird, but more publishers picking up indies is a good thing.
No one might get those games otherwise.
If Sony ever start putting Uncharted, GoW, Horizon & co. on Switch/XBO, then it’ll be time to worry.
Makes sense to me. The Switch needs indies waaaaaay mire than the PS4 does since Nintendo's first-party output has slowed to a trickle. Without indie support there's not much reason to play my Switch anymore.
Is this a problem??
Well, Switch has no games, so it's up to the competition to sort that out for them
@Tsurii Aww man, come on, that was a funny joke
Erm... So?
I mean, I'm really not seeing any controversy here.
@KALofKRYPTON It's to rile up the fanwars for clicks basically.
I'm good. I don't play phone games.
Finally portable horizon zero dawn, although I must say, buying that new swich controller to play it is a bit hassle.
@wiiware nice joke
But I swear why does this gimmicky Portable exist...
Because anything that goes on the Switch sells. So, the decided to make money off it.
Was looking forward to a dungeon crawler but then saw the screens for Necrosphere and suddenly wasn't fussed. Why oh why don't we get more isometric dungeon crawlers?
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