In a recent briefing dedicated to the commercial segment of the company, Sony has confirmed PlayStation Studios’ focus on live servicesshowing an image in which he divided the different software houses by fields of activity.
There are currently seven PlayStation Studios involved in the creation of single player titles with a narrative focus: Asobi, Insomniac Games, Santa Monica Studio, Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog, Firesprite and Housemarque, against nine that deal with pure live services or hybrid titles, i.e. with a mixed economic model. The studios dealing with pure live services are: Bungie, San Diego Studio, Firewalk, Haven and Neon Koi, while those working on the mixed model are Guerrilla Games, Polyphony, Media Molecule and Bend Studio.
Three studios are left out: Bluepoint, Nixxes and Valyrie, which are listed as partner studios. The last two are support studios, which deal in particular with PC conversions, while Bluepoint should still be working on its own game, even if we wouldn’t want it to have been a victim of the internal reorganization of the company that took place in recent months.
More live service coming soon
In another image, Sony has showed its flagship series, among major and emerging ones: The Last of Us, Horizon, Marvel’s Spider-Man, God of War, Destiny, Ghost of Tsushima and Gran Turismo, MLB The Show, Helldivers II, Uncharted, Until Dawn, Astro Bot, FairGame$, Concord and Marathon. Let’s say that these are also the intellectual properties of which we can expect concrete developments in the near future.
The cornerstones of Sony’s action from now on will be exactly that exploitation of its major intellectual properties, accompanied by very ambitious new ones, as well as focusing on live services, differentiating them however through intellectual properties, themes and gameplay. Sony will also continue to invest in the more experimental segments, aiming for games with lower production costs but with high potential.
Also indicative the company’s ongoing projectsat least those that have been announced, which show two single players, Marvel’s Wolverine and Death Stranding 2, a PC game already available, Ghost of Tsushima, and five live services for PS5 and PC: Destiny 2: The Ultimate Form, Concord, MLB The Show (this console only), Fairgame$ and Marathon.
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