Sony is reportedly „uncomfortable“ about outgoing PlayStation boss Jim Ryan’s pivot to games as a service. That’s accor…
Sony is reportedly „uncomfortable“ about outgoing PlayStation boss Jim Ryan’s pivot to games as a service.
That’s according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, who reported yesterday that „even Bungie’s expertise has not yet been able to turn PlayStation Studios into a service-game factory“.
Just days after announcing its $3.6bn Bungie buyout bid, Sony announced back in April 2022 that it would launch more than 10 new live service games over the next four years, with the hope that Destiny developer Bungie would aid PlayStation in this major expansion of live service game development.
Now, however, in an editorial reflecting on Ryan’s departure from Sony, Schreier commented that the move to live service games goes against many Sony’s first-party studios given their expertise in making „big, cinematic adventure games that are played solo“.
