ForwardWorks No longer a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment - News - Forewardworks Corporation

Now not knowing what about Forewardworks Corporation at the time when a much more ambitious mobile strategy is prepared, Sony Interactive Entertainment has decided to separate from this subsidiary founded in 2016 by PlayStation Japan.

The ForwardWorks problem is that its jurisdiction has never exceeded the framework of Japan, even if some of its games have come out in the West through other publishers. By adding a significant lack of success and the implementation at PlayStation of an initiative to decline its popular mobile franchises, all over the world this time, we do not really see what ForewardWorks role could still play within Sony Interactive Entertainment.

In five years, Forwardworks will have developed only a handful of titles using PlayStation licenses, namely Minna No Golf , Toro & Friends: Onsen Town , NO Heroes Allowed Dash , WILD ARMS: MILLION Memories and ARC The LAD R . In Japan, only the first named has not yet closed. ForwardWorks is also known in the archipelago to have Codeveloped Disgaea RPG with Nippon ICHI Software.

Rather than closing this subsidiary, Sony has decided to transfer it to Sony Music on August 1st. A choice far from illogical since it is already here that Alanplex turns its successful mobile games, Fate / Grand Order of course but also Disney Twisted-Wonderland . Under the direction of Hiroshi Ueda, ForwardWorks "Sell will fell new ways to play as many as possible by distributing attractive games for smartphones", can we read.

At the end of May, as part of its annual strategic meeting, the management of Sony Interactive Entertainment had confirmed its intentions with regard to the mobile. "_The mobile is only one of the areas we explore to reach millions of players beyond our platforms. PlayStation has a huge catalog of various intellectual properties that can be adapted to the games on smartphone and complement our games AAA and our services games. We are exploring the mobile market with wonderful PlayStation franchises, so stay at listening ", Jim Ryan said.