PlayStation Plans To Launch 10 Live Service Games By 2026, But Don’t Expect Single Player Output To Stop

Yesterday Sony announced its quarter-end financial results. HirokiTotoki, the CFO of Sony, revealed in this that PlayStation intends to launch 10 games as a live service by March 2026. 

This isn’t surprising, considering the company essentially just invested $3.6 billion in developing live service games by acquiring Bungie earlier this week. Ten games seems a large number. Ten live service games in four years is very ambitious, but it seems Sony and PlayStation are going to rely on Bungie’s expertise in the genre a lot, not to mention, Bungie has its own original IP in the works too.

“The strategic significance of this acquisition lies not only in obtaining the highly successful Destiny franchise, as well as major new IP Bungie is currently developing, but also incorporating into the Sony group the expertise and technologies Bungie has developed in the live game services space,” Totoki said, as reported by The Verge. “Through close collaboration between Bungie and PlayStation Studios we aim to launch more than 10 live service games by the fiscal year ending March 2026.” 

You might wonder if Sony is moving away from single-player story-driven games and focusing on multiplayer service, given all the talk about Bungie’s acquisition. Considering Sony’s first-party studios known for those kinds of games are still around, you’ll likely still be seeing single-player games from PlayStation. Sony seems to be using its expertise and newer studios in order to produce live games through Bungie’s acquisition. 

In the meantime, catch up on Sony’s acquisition of Bungie and then check out Game Informer’sReactions to this news. Check out the full article. Game Informer’sDestiny 2 – The Witch Queen Preview after this. 

[Source: The Verge]

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