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Less than a year after Sony shuttered its PlayStation Mobile service—which brought PlayStation content to Android devices—Sony has launched ForwardWorks. The new division will "leverage the intellectual property" of PlayStation games to create games for iOS and Android devices, but only in Asia and Japan.
ForwardWorks will leverage the intellectual property of the numerous PlayStation dedicated software titles and its gaming characters as well as the knowledge and know-how of gaming development expertise which was acquired over the years with PlayStation business to provide gaming application optimized for smart devices including smartphones to users in Japan and Asia. The company will aim to deliver users with opportunity to casually enjoy full-fledged game titles in the new filed [sic] of the smart device market.
Details on ForwardWorks are thin on the ground, but Sony appears to be taking a similar approach to mobile gaming as Nintendo, which is using selected franchises, characters, and developers to create mobile-specific games. The first of Nintendo's efforts, Miitomo, launched in Japan earlier this month and was downloaded by a million users in just three days.
While ForwardWorks doesn't appear to be a platform as such, then—unlike PlayStation Mobile, which offered developers an SDK—Sony's statement does note that the divison will "deploy new services" as well as games when it launches on April 1.
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