Sony gaf eerder dit jaar aan dat er gewerkt werd aan tien grote live service games voor PlayStation.
Echter werd PlayStation tijdens de PS4-generatie vooral groot door AAA verhaalgedreven single player games zoals Uncharted 4, Days Gone, God of War, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Bloodborne, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding en The Last of Us: Part II.
Herman Hulst, de hoofd van PlayStation Worldwide Studios, heeft aan Gamesindustry.biz aangegeven dat verhaalgedreven single players games altijd zullen blijven bestaan. Kenmerkende PlayStation single player titels zullen niet verdwijnen. Live service games komen naast de grote single player games. Daarom heeft Sony studio’s zoals Haven en Bungie overgenomen.
‘Obviously we will always carry on making these single-player narrative-based games such as Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us, and Horizon Forbidden West,. But you’ve spotted correctly that we have invested in live service games, because that’s incredibly exciting for us. It allows us to build larger worlds, it allows us to create really meaningful social connections between players.
We have quite a few now in development or conceptualization, so yes we are setting up capabilities internally. But exactly for that reason, it is so exciting for us to welcome to the family a group of people who have a lot of experience with live service games.’
