PlayStation Studios' Mobile Push Seems Dead as Layoff Reports Continue

More lay offs and price increases to make up for the 100s of millions wasted. Complacent Sony is the worst. This makes the early ps3 days look awesome.

Aw man, I thought the Ratchet mobile game looked like a fun time.

I see the cloud, but no silver lining...

There's a very dark cloud on the horizon. On a more cheerful note mobile gaming is sh#te anyway.

Seems like Playstation is pulling away from mobile and PC (at least partially) to focus on their ecosystem. It sucks for all the people that lost their jobs, but i think i can understand their strategy, though i can't, for the life of me, understand why they closed Bluepoint. I just hope that we will have good news soon: "Hermen Hulst steps down from Playstation and he's gonna work at a McDonald's, flipping burgers"

I just can't help but feel this is all Hideaki Nishino's doing. He's tired of Hermen's *****

Not sad about these unnecessary games but sad for the people that were laid off.

Countless layoffs and failed projects. Millions of dollars wasted on trying to capitalise on live service and reaching beyond their influence with mobile gaming. Sony needs a change in leadership.

@StrifeInMidgar right? Whoever has that job should never be allowed near anything like it again.

Is now that time to focus on Playstation singleplayer games? ... or does Sony needs to flush more money somewhere?

@HRdepartment I don’t think complacent is the right word. More like Sony really screwed up this gen, and now their passing the costs onto consumers

@djlard I’m sure we don’t want the answer to that

I Can see them keeping The Horizon and Ratchet and Clank game going depending on how far along they are in development.

Unfortunate, how are these studios supposed to get these mobile games out with layoffs, sigh. Sony cutting any corners or increase others it's just ridiculous. The financial reports have to be good though. But big scale projects, other scale projects on other platforms, merch and whatever else.

The Ratchet one still needs work for level design/gadgets, the weapons are fine but the wall running is nothing, it's something but it adds very little to the level design. It needs more. Modes need good use of gadgets. Or is it just fewer modes because easy to add more skins and bare bones things to it. Typical of mobile, bare bones modes and too much cosmetics for little fun factor.

The Horizon ones are hit and miss. But with how much the original IP has to work with or whatever they bend for the mobile one who knows.

If the mobile studios can pull it off by all means they need all the reassurance they can get, but I don't see much compelling here.

It's amazing to me that this mobile push has been going on for like 10+ years in various iterations and hasn't produced anything.

@StrifeInMidgar That or to better pay attention to the market or how many corners to cut or be more creative then the bare minimum creativity they have offered with their weak ideas live services or mobile games.

That or yes less multiplayer and more then 4 studios making singleplayer for sure to fill in the gap and not just rely on 3rd party Asian studios all the time to fill in the gaps.

@Stragen8 Well Sony going from cellphones to early smartphones to on and off there (3 to 4 times, just like Remote Play has). They seem to 'try' but not really push it that well enough.

That or the angles they push are terrible.

wipEout Rush could have worked but is pathetic and gone, a really bad manager/idle game, when 2048 or even other racing games on mobile are far too competitive for one. They have more a chance on console but Sony wants larger numbers and pushes the series to the side.

Fate GO I think is still under Sony so they get a fair amount there. Yeah under Aniplex so still Sony.

Sackboy Run was however long ago.

I forget what most of their mobile games even are. I'd have to check the products by said company links on the eshops for both iOS and Android as I have no clue.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5810481673801929430 Under this one is the apps and more so MLB and Invisimals so that's outdated or not. That or they cleared out/'removed visibility of PS Vita Pets and more.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6234335191064488918 dev has Lemmings and Ultimate Sackboy so both Sony IPs, never heard of the new Sackboy one but have the Lemmings one when I was doing research after picking up the PS2 one.

Well Google or Apple's search systems are that bad, I searched Horizon or Ratchet, nothing, I search in my search engine, easily find them. Sigh. Checked the other products by that company, same one and doesn't show them there.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playstation.rattlesnake&hl=en-US Ratchet