PlayStation Has A Free-To-Play Mobile Games Platform In Works

Job listings are a great way to figure out what a company has in development. Well, a new job listing has suggested that PlayStation is developing a new platform for free-to-play mobile games.

First spotted by TweakTown, the job listing seeks a mobile platform architect, which reveals details on what PlayStation could have in store for its mobile users. Previously, Xbox also revealed that it will be launching its Xbox mobile store in July this year.

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Job Listing Reveals PlayStation’s Plans For Mobile Users

The listing reads, “PlayStation Studios Mobile is seeking an experienced software engineer to design PlayStation’s platform for developing, publishing, and operating free-to-play mobile games. An individual in this role will spearhead the design and implementation of this platform, work in partnership with internal teams to connect mobile games to PlayStation services, and ensure that all mobile games meet PlayStation’s quality standards.”

The responsibilities in the job listing are as follows:

• Designing the system architecture along with backend services for the mobile games platform. 
• The employee will have to measure and improve platform security, availability, throughput, and cost efficiency.
• They will have to provide technical leadership and guidance to the platform engineering team. 
• Establishing pipelines and processes to facilitate the delivery of high-quality software.
• The employee is expected to collaborate across teams to integrate the platform with internal services. Besides, Influence and contribute to the platform engineering roadmap.
• They will have to communicate end-to-end system behavior to platform users and stakeholders.
• They will also have to track technical innovations and trends affecting mobile game development.

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Xbox Mobile Gaming Store Launching In July

Microsoft seems to have been prepping for the launch of an Xbox mobile gaming store for a few years now, and the company now seems ready to roll it out in July. During the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Xbox president Sarah Bond announced the launch date and how the company will avoid Apple’s App Store rules. 

The store will be emphasizing on promoting first-party games developed by different studios under Microsoft. These games will include hits like Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Saga. Bond also notes that Microsoft will do this to partners as well in the coming days.

Apart from games being naturally available on the store, it seems that key parts of the Xbox experience will also be available. Bond says that no gaming platform and store experience “goes truly across devices — where who you are, your library, your identity, your rewards travel with you versus being locked to a single ecosystem.” So the company aims to build something like that.