Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D, focusing on live service.
Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D, focusing on live service.
Sony has expressed an intention to flesh out its PlayStation portfolio with live service games and has invested $2.1B to see it done.
In a report published by Nikkei, it was revealed that Sony intends to ‘pour’ financial resources into gaming research and development – to the tune of around $2.13 billion. That’s reportedly an investment that’s being made before the end of fiscal year 2024, and it’ll account for a whopping 40% of Sony’s entire R&D spending.
Sony plans to allocate a staggering 60% of all PlayStation 5 development spending to live service games exclusively for the year ending March 2026. It was also stated that there’s a grand goal in place to have no fewer than twelve live service games in the PlayStation portfolio within that same timeline.
Exciting times for everyone in Live Ops I'm sure 😉
Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D
:D
focusing on live service
>:(
Fuck live services. Just another subscription model.
And worse, they're nearly universally designed with always-online killswitches that destroy preservation for those games.
Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D
Yes!
focusing on live service.
No!
More like investment in FOMO game design.
Did they forget they built their current audience on strong single player titles? Seems like this is a sahreholder appeasing move, as in if he didn't ok this they would replace Ryan.
They're a public company. their shareholders are the customers they have to please. Not you.
Exactly lol
12 live service games by 2026, and 9 of them will have flopped, been sunset, and lost forever to time by 2028.
Booo
Yay r&d into the worst type of game model…. Can’t wait to see all the failures that get abandoned within 6 months of launch