Sony’s Smooth San Diego Team Is Working on ‘Smooth Franchises’

PlayStation’s unique San Diego-primarily based studio is working to “form bigger upon modern franchises”, primarily based on the LinkedIn profile of the studio’s light head.Michael Mumbauer labored at PlayStation as Studio Head until November 2020. Within the phase of his profile detailing his work with the unique San Diego crew, Mumbauer writes: “His latest success is having constructed a impress unique, all-smartly-known person, AAA Action/Adventure trend crew for Playstation. Essentially based fully in San Diego and utilizing proprietary engine skills, this crew used to be assembled to form bigger upon modern franchises and craft all unique tales for the following skills of gamers.”As to what those modern franchises would possibly be, there were rumours for a while that PlayStation has been engaged on a partnership with Mischievous Canine to proceed the Uncharted sequence. Nothing official is on hand to verify that this unique trend crew is engaged on an Uncharted sport, but there is an exciting and piquant wrinkle…

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Within the ‘Featured’ fragment of Mumbauer’s LinkedIn profile, between videos of a keynote presentation and GDC talk from him, is a video from YouTuber RobinGaming about Sony “secretly” making a studio to form Uncharted 5. The ‘Featured’ fragment of a LinkedIn profile is filled in by the profile proprietor themselves, and so this Uncharted 5 theory video has been purposefully positioned there by Mumbauer. This is, pointless to assert, with out a doubt no longer an official affirmation of the rumour, but is an piquant element the entire identical.

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As for this unique trend crew, it would peaceful no longer be puzzled with San Diego Studio, Sony’s first-party trend residence that has spent unprecedented of its lifetime dedicated to creating installments of MLB The Smooth. As some other, this unique San Diego-primarily based studio is a unique assembly that has but to be formally announced.

For more on PlayStation Studios, derive a discover at the records of the upcoming God of Battle Ragnarok, PS5 exciting Returnal dropping in March, and the dialogue of PS5’s 2021 lineup.

Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Author.

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