The president of PlayStation said in a recent interview that Sony still intends to deal with the challenge of live service games.
Sony’s strategy of relying on live service igre so far it has been largely unsuccessful. Concord fell before it took off; support for Destiny 2 has ended, Marathon is still running, but the question is for how long. Only Helldivers 2 and Gran Turismo 7 still somehow manage to keep their audience.
However, Sony says how they do not intend to give up that business segment. In a recent interview with Famitsu magazine, PlayStation president Hideaki Nishino said that Sony wants to in the future “revitalize the market of live service games”.
It’s not entirely clear what that means, but Nishino makes it clear that PlayStation will continue to address challenges in the context of live service gaming.
Currently, PlayStation has three live service titles in development that have been unveiled to the public. A Marvel fighting game is coming out this summer Tokon: Fighting Soulsan extraction robbery of Fairgames has been in development for some time, allegedly under a new name Break In. The third live service title is a cooperative game Horizon: Hunters Gathering.
Sony has confirmed that future live service titles will be available outside of PlayStation, ie on PC, and sometimes on Xbox platforms.