Sony has announced a new publishing label known as ‘Unties,’ which will release games not only on PlayStation systems, but on Nintendo Switch and PC as well.
Unties, which will operate under Sony Music Entertainment, intends to “unearth high-quality titles” that may go overlooked in the ever-growing indie game space.
The reasoning for publishing on other platforms, Sony says, is to leverage its “vast entertainment business wisdom in order to expose [these games] to as many consumers as possible.”
Unties’ first title, the cartoony strategy game Tiny Metal, will release on November 21st on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Unties’ other upcoming games include the action game Last Standard, coming to PC and other to-be-announced consoles, Merkava Avalanche, a robot action game for PC (and potentially other systems) and the PS4 game Deemo Reborn, set to release on PS4 and feature support for the PlayStation VR.
The Unties announcement is notable given that Sony doesn’t have a history of putting its published PlayStation games on rival consoles. That said, the Japanese tech giant does have a precedent of bringing some of its titles to PC.
In August 2016, Sony also made over 400 PS3 titles available on PC through its PlayStation Now subscription game streaming service. Select PS4 games were also added to the PlayStation Now library in July, letting PC owners play titles like Killzone: Shadow Fall and God of War 3: Remastered.
As well, Sony Online Entertainment — which operated independently from PlayStation — published certain games on PC, such as Payday: The Heist and DC Universe Online. However, Sony sold off the division to private equity group Columbus Nova and has since been renamed Daybreak Game Company.
Meanwhile, Unties’ support for Nintendo Switch is a logical fit, with many smaller indie titles seeing great success on the console-handheld hybrid. Only two of the current top ten most downloaded titles on the Nintendo Switch were made by the game giant. The remaining eight best sellers are all third-party indie games, such as Stardew Valley and Axiom Verge.
Via: Polygon
