Announced by the head of PlayStation Studios, Hermen Hulst, on the PlayStation Blog, PlayStation has definitively acquired Savage Game Studios, a mobile developer based in Berlin, Germany. Hulst called Savage a “hugely talented team of creatives” and believed the studio will be a great addition to the PlayStation ecosystem:
We share their tireless ambition to innovate, along with a continued drive to expand our audience and bring PlayStation to more people than ever before, making them a perfect fit to join PlayStation Studios.
CEO of Savage Game Studios, Michail Katkoff, also expressed his excitement at the acquisition of the studio he co-founded. Katkoff previously worked as an executive producer at Zynga as well as a product manager at Supercell.
We made this deal because we believe that PlayStation Studios’ leadership respects our vision for how we can best operate and succeed, and because they too are not afraid to take chances. All of that, plus the ability to potentially tap into PlayStation’s amazing catalog of IP and the fact that we will benefit from the kind of support that only they can provide.
– Michail Katkoff
Will a PlayStation IP work as a mobile game?
Hulst believes that PlayStation’s mobile gaming efforts will supplement the PlayStation community much like PC releases such as Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered and God of War have. PlayStation’s mobile games will provide more options for existing and potential PlayStation supporters. Hulst believes mobile games will “reach new audiences unfamiliar with PlayStation and our games.”
Savage Games Studios will join the PlayStation Studios Mobile Division and operate independently from console game development. This division will develop for new and existing PlayStation IP. Savage Games Studios is already working on an unannounced AAA mobile live service action game.
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Source: PlayStation Blog
