Welcome to the original-content game, PlayStation.
Sony’s PlayStation Network, which has offered movies and TV shows to rent and buy on its consoles since 2006, is joining the growing ranks of digital platforms producing original content with the launch of Powers.
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The hour-long television series is an adaptation of a graphic-novel series about detectives who investigate crimes committed by supernatural beings. Their mission: to protect humans from super-powered beings who don’t exactly act like heroes.
The series was penned by Michael Oeming and Brian Michael Bendis, the prolific Marvel writer who’s currently working on the Guardians of the Galaxy comics.
Sony Pictures Television will put together 10 episodes of the show for PlayStation, which has been pressing hard to transform its console — already a top conduit for digital content-creating juggernaut Netflix — into a one-stop entertainment shop.
PlayStation Network certainly has the eyeballs to make this work: With more than 150 million accounts, the console pumps out millions of movies and TV shows to its users every month. Sony will need Powers and other original content to work once it gets its pay-TV service running. The company joins competitor Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform, which is at work on a Steven Spielberg-produced Halo show.
Powers should come to life in fully realized form; the property has been around for a while, including as a pilot at FX. No production start date or cast has been set yet.
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