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In a report published by Nikkei, it was revealed that Sony intends to ‘pour’ financial resources into gaming research and development – to the tune of around $2.13 billion. That’s reportedly an investment that’s being made before the end of fiscal year 2024, and it’ll account for a whopping 40% of Sony’s entire R&D spending.

Sony plans to allocate a staggering 60% of all PlayStation 5 development spending to live service games exclusively for the year ending March 2026. It was also stated that there’s a grand goal in place to have no fewer than twelve live service games in the PlayStation portfolio within that same timeline.

Exciting times for everyone in Live Ops I'm sure 😉

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D

Yes!

focusing on live service.

No!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More like investment in FOMO game design.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fuck live services. Just another subscription model.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D

:D

focusing on live service

>:(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did they forget they built their current audience on strong single player titles? Seems like this is a sahreholder appeasing move, as in if he didn't ok this they would replace Ryan.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

They're a public company. their shareholders are the customers they have to please. Not you.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Exactly lol