Sony’s subsidiary ForwardWorks is said to be making products smartphone for markets in Japan and Asia ForwardWorks Corporation is set to start
ForwardWorks Corporation is set to start its work on April 1 and that’s what they are going to do:
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.
The official statement says the newly developed company will work on projects for casual gamers. ForwardWorks will be led by Atsushi Morita, president of SCE Japan.
It appears that Sony sees Nintendo’s moves towards the mobile market promising as Nintendo’s Miitomo, in partnership with DeNA reached 1 million downloads over its first weekend of availability in Japan.
Source: gamesindustry.biz