Sony plans to adapt PlayStation video games for mobile phones

 

In addition, this week the company's new console, the PS5, received a surprise update with several new features.


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Sony plans to adapt PlayStation video games for cell phones. - Photo: SONY

Sony plans to make mobile adaptations of the most popular PlayStation video games, as well as develop more titles on this platform and create a business plan around mobile phones within three to five years.


The technology company will begin an expansion from consoles and computers to mobile phones and live services, according to a job offer published by the company itself. In this offer, PlayStation is looking for a boss for its mobile section and offers details of what their functions will be within the strategy to be followed.

Thus, as detailed by Sony, the boss will focus on "successfully adapting the most popular PlayStation franchises for mobile phones." In addition, the company plans that this person develop a strategy and initiate the first steps toward the expansion of this division within the company


All this redirection involves the creation of a new unit for the company, which will develop a business plan and maintain a roadmap for three to five years. PlayStation intends to create additional upcoming video games for smartphones and to begin generating long-term ventures.

Surprising PS5 update

PlayStation 5, Sony's next-generation console, received an update this Wednesday that includes the ability to transfer game data to a compatible USB and Share Play between PS4 and PS5, as well as other news regarding the user experience that allow greater customization and control.


This is the "first major update" since the console's launch in late 2020, according to Sony's senior vice president of platform planning and management, Hideaki Nishino, on the PlayStation blog. The update is now available and also affects PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation App.

The new software allows to expand the storage of PS5 thanks to the possibility of storing games and transferring data to a compatible USB drive from the internal memory. This allows you to expand the current 667GB internal SSD storage capacity for console games.

Users can copy games back to internal storage at any time, and the company indicates that it is faster to reinstall titles from expanded storage than to download them again or copy them from a disc.

Cross-Generation Share Play functionality allows users to use its services while chatting in a group, which means that PS4 friends of a PS5 user have the ability to view the game screen or test games, and vice versa. They can also hand you the controller virtually or use a second virtual controller for cooperative play.

The new option 'Request to join' allows users of both consoles to join a game session, adding options and making it faster to join or send games to friends.

Finally, there are new customization and control options on PlayStation 5. Thus, thanks to an improved Game Base menu, the speed of accessing important functions and content has increased. As a result, it is now easy to "easily" move between parties, whose messages can now be turned off, and the status (online or offline) of contacts.

Other functionalities added to Playstation 5 are the ability to disable game chat or adjust the volume of players, the pre-download of game updates the moment developers publish their title updates, the ability to search and hide games from the Library and adjust the zoom of the screen to suit the user.

In addition, the user now has the possibility to decide at which trophy level a screenshot or video clip should be taken , and can see their level summary and trophy status at a glance.

The PlayStation App adds new functions to simplify remote connection with consoles. Now, the update provides users with the ability to join PS5 multiplayer sessions from within the app , as well as manage their storage, compare their trophy collections with those of friends, and sort and filter products from the PlayStation Store.

With information from PlayStation.com and Europa Press.

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