{"id":108265,"date":"2016-10-17T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108265"},"modified":"2016-10-17T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T06:37:50","slug":"sony-is-making-exclusive-playstation-games-for-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/108265-sony-is-making-exclusive-playstation-games-for-ios-and-android","title":{"rendered":"Sony is making exclusive PlayStation games for iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has confirmed that it plans to release 5 0r 6 smartphone games for Android and iOS in the next 18 months, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/oct\/14\/sony-develops-playstation-games-for-smartphones-in-2018\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the creation of the ForwardWorks division in March 2016 specifically aimed at the production of smartphone games based on well-known PlayStation characters and intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation already entered into the smartphone market in 2012 through Sony&#8217;s\u00a0Xperia range.<\/p>\n<p>The smartphones allowed users to download a selection of classic and independently produced PlayStation titles.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word as to which IP&#8217;s will be featured although names like Crash Bandicoot, Uncharted, Wipeout and Gran Turismo have already been mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>This may be the only way forward for Sony&#8217;s portable division following the dismal sales of the PlayStation Vita.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Now read: <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/108139-the-7-most-difficult-video-game-achievements-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\">The 7 most difficult video game achievements ever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best PlayStation games next year could be on your smartphone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,11681],"tags":[31,319,3281],"class_list":["post-108265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-exclusive","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108271,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108265\/revisions\/108271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}