Sony unveils PlayStation Studios’ new look with a Marvel Studios-like intro

Sony is simplifying the branding it makes use of for video gamesdeveloped by its Sony Interactive Leisure Worldwide Studios groups with a brand new emblem and a brand new, a lot shorter title: PlayStation Studios. On Tuesday the corporate unveiled the branding, which comes with a brand new animation that, sure, does certainly look very very similar to the Marvel Studios intro that performs earlier than Marvel’s films.

The opening animation for PlayStation Studios video gamesoptions Sony’s characters — Nathan Drake from Uncharted, Aloy from Horizon Zero Daybreak, Kratos from God of Conflict, Ratchet and Clank, and others — mirrored upon the 3D variations of the triangle, circle, cross, and sq. icons.

In line with a report from GamesIndustry.biz, the brand new PlayStation Studio branding will launch alongside the PlayStation 5 this vacation season. The branding might be featured on video games developed and managed by Sony Interactive Leisure’s Worldwide Studios. Eric Lempel, senior vice chairman and head of worldwide advertising at Sony Interactive Leisure, tells Video games Business that the animation (and shorter variations of it) will seem earlier than video games and trailers.

“We now have been serious about how we unite all of those nice video games underneath one model, and actually the aim of that’s to make the patron perceive that, once they see this model, they’re preparing for a sturdy, revolutionary, deep expertise that they’ve come to anticipate from video games coming from PlayStation,” Lempel defined.

The PlayStation Studios emblem can even be featured on discs and sport packaging, Lempel stated.

PlayStation Studios’ new animated intro follows the same effort from the Xbox group final yr. Just like the Marvel Studios intro (and now PlayStation Studios), the Xbox Recreation Studios animated intro integrated characters and imagery from Microsoft’s 13 inner sport improvement studios.

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