It seems that Sony Interactive Entertainment will be the new publisher of Lost Soul Aside and Convallaria, in relation to the China Hero Project. The direct confirmation of this particular commercial dynamic comes from the personal Twitter profile of Josh Ye, Reuters technology correspondent.
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PlayStation China chief: Sony aims to sell twice as many PS5 in China as it did PS4.
Sony has also just announced at its China Hero Project event that it has invested in both Lost Soul Aside and Convallaria. And Sony is going to be the publisher of both games.
— Josh Ye (@TheRealJoshYe) November 22, 2022
In Ye's post we find a statement from head of PlayStation China, some formalize everything, underlining that the current and pre-eminent corporate objective is to be able to double PS5 sales in China, based on previous PS4 sales: “From the Head of PlayStation China: Sony aims to sell twice as many PS5s in China as they did PS4. Sony also just announced at its China Hero Project event that it has invested in both Lost Soul Aside and Convallaria. He will be the publisher of both games”.
Both Lost Soul Aside and Convallaria have attracted the curiosity of fans of the sector in their previous presentations and development phases, only to then fall into a particular and general press silence.
The latest news on Convallaria date back to around 2020, with the developers of this third-person multiplayer shooter, the guys from Loong Force, who talked about emotional plots, with realistic experiences and aggressive and fluid gameplay, all in the name of involving gamers. Lost Soul Aside instead it generated an early attraction for its action soul, and for the fact that it was a project entirely made by a single person. However, the general interest of the time prompted Sony to take an interest in it and then not divulge its production evolution too much.
We just have to wait for new details regarding these new projects, in the hope of having more details on both. The general expectation has been going on for far too long and the change in the role of Sony, now a publisher, can only bode well both on the timing and on the economic possibilities at stake.
