According to a new Sony employee, PlayStation has set up a new "game save" team that will likely be responsible for the preservation of the classic game franchise.
The employee, Garrett Fredley, now joins PlayStation as a Senior Architecture Engineer. To celebrate his new job, Fredley posted a message on his Twitter and LinkedIn pages expressing his excitement about joining the new "save" team.
He wrote: "Today is my first day as a PlayStation Senior Architecture Engineer as one of the initial members of their newly formed preservation team. ”
"Game saving was my first professional hobby. This was my first foray into the world of software engineering/DevOps, a world that a lot of people don't know about. I was just a novice at the time, and despite my lack of experience, I contributed as much as I could. Now, I'm back and not the novice I used to be. ”
"Thank you (QA Global Director) Mike Bishop and the team for letting me join this adventure. Let's work together to ensure that our industry history is not forgotten. ”
Fredley worked at EA from 2016 to 2019, where he single-handedly led the preservation of the FIFA series, thus completing complete saves of multiple games.
It's unclear what this new character will bring, or what exactly the goal of this new "game save" team is. But last month, Sony announced that it will bring classic games (PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP generation) to the PS5 platform through the new PS+ service, and the new team may be related to the project.