PlayStation To Continue Focusing on Live Service Games (insider-gaming.com)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/12/31/1444241/playstation-to-continue-focusing-on-live-service-games
- Source link: https://insider-gaming.com/playstation-to-continue-focusing-on-live-service-games/
> In a recent interview with Japanese outlet Famitsu, PlayStation Co-CEO Herman Hulst said that the company still believes in the model despite recent hiccups like Concord. "The game business is constantly changing due to various factors, including technological advances, new genres and ways of playing," Hulst said via auto translation.
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> "However, one thing that remains constant is people's desire for great entertainment experiences, and attention to games continues to grow. However, this has also created competition, and like many companies in the industry, we have had to make changes to our business to solidify a more sustainable operating base." Hulst continued by saying PlayStation will "continue to focus on developing live service titles along with the story-driven single-player titles that our players want."
[1] https://insider-gaming.com/playstation-to-continue-focusing-on-live-service-games/
Concord is a hiccup? (Score:2)
Concord, 8 years in development, 200 million dollars, and died a month after release is one hellava hiccup!
wtf is "live service" (Score:3)
I had to look it up. [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/gamin... [reddit.com]
What happened to businesses giving the customer what they want?
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bdpmfj/can_someone_explain_what_live_service_games_means/
Re: wtf is "live service" (Score:2)
> What happened to businesses giving the customer what they want
âWhere's the profit in that?â
Re: wtf is "live service" (Score:2)
(I see Slashdot still has an issue with Unicode characters... " should be a double-quote)
2 player single console games? (Score:2)
What about those 2-player-on-one-screen games that we can enjoy when our friends visit...? They appear to be missing everywhere these days.
Not News (Score:2)
Duh. Sony never learns anything from their mistakes. It is literally impossible to have the number of different successful live service games going at the same time that Sony wants.
Good (Score:2)
The consumers that like this kind of stuff are going to continue to focus on playing the one game where everyone is (not yours).