Sony have launched a brand new PlayStation Indies Initiative to help highlight independent games. This new initiative will be led by longtime PlayStation employee and the beloved Shuhei Yoshida.
Announced on the PlayStation Blog, Shuhei, who is now the Head of Indies Initiative at PlayStation said that this new program hopes to “spotlight and support the best of the best indie games being published on PlayStation.”
This will begin with nine new titles being announced today, coming to PS4 and PS5. We will, of course, be covering these games today.
Shuhei also offered a statement on the indie community and PlayStation’s past support of it.
“We trust indie developers with strong vision will continue to bring ideas that have never been tried before, creating whole new genres of games and advancing the art and meaning of video games. PlayStation has always embraced games with completely new concepts, like PaRappa the Rapper, Katamari Damacy, LittleBigPlanet, and Journey, and we look forward to seeing what surprising new ideas will come next!”
This new initiative will likely be integral to growing the indie support on PS5 and help to bring back the idea that PlayStation is the place for indie games.
Stay tuned for more from PlayStation Indies in the coming days and months.
Source – [PlayStation Blog]