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New Job Listing Reveals Sony’s Effort To Create Its Own PC Platform

To those that are paying attention for the past year, a slew of originally unique titles to PlayStation 4 are now on PC. This includes God of War, Days Gone, and Horizon Zero Dawn. However, Sony Interactive Entertainment is energetic in creating its own platform specifically for those gaming on keyboard & mouse. Currently, the firm utilizes Steam for its effort on the platform.

But, the firm has already showed signs to establish its own presences specifically for PC. In that, it was discovered that the PlayStation firm already filed for PlayStation PC LLC alongside users on Steam recognized the publisher for many PC ports to shift from PlayStation Mobile to PlayStation PC as well.

In a new job listing finding, Sony Interactive Entertainment appears to be further fueling the ambition by searching for a candidate to oversee the initiative with a Product Manager. “Lead & grow the PlayStation PC Game Experiences Product organization including staffing, leadership, and employee development!” the description reads.

“Lead and evolve the PlayStation game experience roadmap for all game related experiences including SDK development, client application experiences as PlayStation network Platform integration. This role will be asked to take the lead on the overall PC gaming experiences for PlayStation including the leadership and responsibility to implement and deliver to our players worldwide.

“Deep understanding of the video game industry, especially PC, Cross Play and Cloud/Mobile based gaming needs and trends.” Noted, Sony Interactive Entertainment has nodded to this inadvertently with its deal to acquire Bungie. Following the initial reveal, the firm did press that is plans to ships close to a dozen live service titles by 2026.

Additionally, the firm signifies its plans to expand to platforms beyond PlayStation in its latest earnings call. From that, the company expressed that its ambitions include “strengthening our first party software and deploying that software on multiple platforms.” You can read the full report by heading here.

Are you interested in what this new PC platform will do for PlayStation?

Source: Greenhouse

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