Sony wants to invest more money in multiplayer titles for the Playstation in the future. This emerges from a current financial presentation of the Japanese company. It is primarily about so-called “live service games”, i.e. multiplayer games that are continuously supplied with new content and generate long-term income through microtransactions.
According to the presentation, in fiscal year 2019 Sony still put 12 percent of its investments in such live service games, in fiscal year 2025 it should be 60 percent. That doesn’t necessarily mean cutting back on investment in the single-player titles that Sony is best known for. Sony did not state any absolute investment sums in its presentation.
In view of recent studio acquisitions, it is not surprising that Sony is focusing more on live service games: First and foremost, Sony has bought the Bungie development studio, which runs one of the most successful live service games on the market with “Destiny 2”. The two young development studios Haven and Firewalk are also working on such multiplayer titles. These games have not yet been officially announced, but could be presented to the public for the first time at a Playstation showcase on Wednesday evening.
PC ports are becoming more important
For several years, Sony has also been porting many of its former Playstation exclusive titles to the PC. This market segment brings in decent sales for the Japanese company: for the 2023 fiscal year, Sony expects that 20 percent of all Sony studio sales will be made on the PC.
Specifically, Sony expects revenues of 450 million US dollars from the sale of PC games in this period. In the fiscal year 2020 it was just 35 million. The action game “Spider-Man Remastered” was particularly successful, selling 1.5 million copies on the computer and grossing 52 million US dollars. In view of these numbers, it is considered likely that more Sony games will be developed for the computer.
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