PlayStation Sony investing $2.1B in Gaming R&D, Focusing on Live Service

[Hailinel]

....but why though

Money. But also playing the odds that at least one of these live service projects will turn into a cash cow and justify the tactic even if most bomb out.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

Sony went from "you’ll have to get a second job to buy our console" to "you’ll have to quit your job to play our games"

 

[Dark Cloud]

And how will nintendo combat this? /s

 

[Evil Lucario]

Yeah this shit is dire. Aside from Apex Legends, Genshin Impact, and I think Valorant, there hasn't really been many big live service games coming out that actually feel "earned". If Sony wants to break into this, they need to be targeting a niche no one else is providing, just like what Genshin did. But even with that, I expect almost all of these ventures to just flatline quickly after the initial hype.

It's a damn shame.

 

[Old Sorta Fan]

Some of these are surely gonna be FPSs but I think it'll be key to play around with different genres for something like this.

We're almost certainly getting a new Twisted Metal at some point with the show sort of rebirthing the IP so I wonder if that is gonna have a GaaS model. I think Rocket League has been the only one to get huge in that category.

They dug up Marathon from the 1990's Macintosh scene and are giving it the GAAS treatment.

I'm sure it'll have as much to do with the original trilogy as Beyond Good and Evil 2 does to Beyond Good and Evil. /s