Sony has lost its boss in PlayStation Mobile, two years after its launch

Sony Interactive Entertainment has lost its PlayStation Mobile boss, two years after creating the division.

Nicola Sebastiani was a standout when he joined in 2021, having led Apple’s business management team before becoming chief content officer at Apple Arcade, in an eight-year tenure at the iPhone maker.

Sebastiani was responsible for building the PlayStation Portable team and was instrumental in Sony’s acquisition of Savage Game Studios.

However, less than a year after the deal was announced, he has now left the company, according to the MobileGamer.biz. It is not yet clear why the CEO decided to leave or if he joined directly with another company.

For the past two years, SIE Quietly build a team of talented people with mobile experienceand hiring people from Apple, Kabam, Meta, Tencent, Super Evil Megacorp, Samsung, Niantic, Zynga, Riot, and more.

SIE President Jim Ryan said during a business briefing last year that the company expects half of its annual releases to be on PC and mobile by 2025.

Commenting during the acquisition of Savage Game Studios, PlayStation Studios president Hermen Hulst made sure to stress PlayStation’s mobile role as an “add-on” to the core console business.

Holst said, “As we’ve assured you before with our plans to bring select titles to PC, our efforts beyond console in no way diminish our commitment to the PlayStation community, nor diminish our passion for continuing to deliver amazing narrative-driven single-player experiences.” .

“Our mobile gaming efforts will be similarly incremental, providing more ways for more people to interact with our content, seeking to reach new audiences unfamiliar with PlayStation and our games.”