Sony Interactive Entertainment: version 1
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# Sony Interactive Entertainment <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Interactive Entertainment
disambiguation: The San Mateo company Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, not its Japanese sister Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., the former Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
summary: Sony Group's PlayStation company, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC of San Mateo, California, formed in April 2016 from Sony's games and network businesses.
legal_name: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
registered_address: 2207 Bridgepointe Parkway, San Mateo, CA 94404, United States
country: US
register_ids: LEI:213800GUL7Z5E2TTTF62
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-corporation-of-america | | 2016-04-01 | | | sourced | ^wiki-sie | Wikipedia: established on 1 April 2016 under the umbrella of Sony Corporation of America. |
| parent_org | company/sony-group-corporation | | 2016-04-01 | | | verified | ^sony-20f-2017 | Sony Corporation's Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2017 lists Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC among the significant subsidiaries it owns directly or indirectly; that Sony Corporation is today Sony Group Corporation. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC | legal | en | | |
| SIE | search | | | |
| PlayStation | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| gleif-sie | https://search.gleif.org/#/record/213800GUL7Z5E2TTTF62 | GLEIF LEI record 213800GUL7Z5E2TTTF62: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC | 2026-09-23 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry | | 213800GUL7Z5E2TTTF62 | Legal address; registration US-CA 201635710028 | | | |
| wiki-sie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Interactive_Entertainment | Wikipedia: Sony Interactive Entertainment | 2026-09-23 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History, 2016 restructuring; corporate affairs | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| sony-20f-2017 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313838/000119312517203939/d358485d20f.htm | Sony Corporation, Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017 | 2026-09-23 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | 0001193125-17-203939 | Item 3.D risk factors; Item 4.C, Organizational Structure | | | |
| uspto-912 | https://patents.google.com/patent/US9295912B2/en | Google Patents US9295912B2 (Game aim assist): USPTO assignment records | 2026-09-23 | Google Patents, from USPTO assignment records | registry | | US9295912B2 | Legal Events: reel 053323/0567 | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is the Sony Group company that runs the PlayStation business, headquartered in San Mateo, California.[^wiki-sie] Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Sony Network Entertainment International LLC founded it in April 2016 as a new company combining all their business units, including hardware, software, content and network services, as Sony's annual report for that year describes it.[^sony-20f-2017] Wikipedia dates its establishment to 1 April 2016, under the umbrella of Sony Corporation of America, and calls it an American, Japanese-owned company of Sony Group Corporation.[^wiki-sie] Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC, the former Sony Computer Entertainment America, was merged into it with effect from 15 March 2018.[^uspto-912] The GLEIF record gives its legal address at 2207 Bridgepointe Parkway, San Mateo, with California registration 201635710028.[^gleif-sie]
Its Japanese sister, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., is the renamed Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and was set up as a direct subsidiary of Sony Corporation.[^wiki-sie]
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