PlayStation Has a Dedicated Team Finding ‘Hidden Gems’ Like Stellar Blade, Says SVP

Sony Interactive Leisure (SIE) is understood for its nice first-party titles. Video games like Ghost of Tsushima and God of Conflict Ragnarok are future PlayStation classics. Nonetheless, as the sport improvement time on triple-A video games like this continues to increase, PlayStation has partnered with different corporations to convey some nice titles completely to its console platform persistently. That is due to a devoted crew discovering these “hidden gems,” in line with SIE’s Phil Rosenberg, SVP of World Companion Growth and Relations.

“There’s no person higher on the planet” at discovering PlayStation hidden gems than SIE Content material Ventures crew

In a latest interview, Rosenberg applauds the work of SIE’s Content material Ventures crew, which is led by Christian Svensson. Together with Shawne Benson, they assist the corporate discover hidden gems which might be “in all probability off the radar” like Stellar Blade.

“We now have for example in GPDR, the Content material Ventures crew led by Christian Svensson. There’s no person higher on the planet than Christian and Shawne Benson at discovering hidden gems and nurturing up-and-coming corporations which might be in all probability off the radar for many of us,” claims Rosenberg. “They get tons of help from the third-party account administration crew and the accomplice improvement crew, who are sometimes the very first factors of contact.”

“[This team worked with] Annapurna Video games very early on video games like Stray,” Rosenberg continues. “The identical strategy additionally led our help of Genshin Influence, Black Fantasy: Wukong and Stellar Blade for instance.”

This technique does appear to be working in PlayStation’s favor. Stellar Blade was obtained nicely critically, garnering nominations at a number of year-end award occasions like The Sport Awards. It additionally offered over 1,000,000 copies inside the first couple of months it was launched.

PlayStation continues to convey fascinating exclusives to its platform this 12 months with Misplaced Soul Apart. It is among the extra important video games to come back out of Sony’s China Hero Venture, and is ready to launch on Might 30 for PS5 and PC.