(Pocket-lint) - Sony has revealed it is going to launch greater than 10 new dwell service video games throughout the subsequent 4 years.
The corporate unveiled its plan throughout an investor name, the place CFO Hiroki Totoki primarily admitted the acquisition of Bungie for $3.6 billion was about extra than simply Future and extra about ramping up efforts to provide dwell service video games, that are video games which are up to date with new content material over time. They have a tendency to generate income by way of in-game purchases, moderately than preliminary gross sales.
"The strategic significance of this acquisition lies not solely in acquiring the extremely profitable Future franchise, in addition to main new IP Bungie is presently creating, but additionally incorporating into the Sony group the experience and applied sciences Bungie has developed within the dwell recreation providers house", mentioned Totoki throughout a name with buyers on Wednesday 2 February 2022. "By way of shut collaboration between Bungie and PlayStation Studios we purpose to launch greater than 10 dwell service video games by the fiscal 12 months ending March 2026".
Totoki additionally famous that, from 2014 to 2014, the worldwide recreation content material market doubled. This development, the CFO mentioned, was "pushed by add-on content material income from dwell recreation providers, which grew at a median annual fee of 15% throughout this era". Totoki added: "We count on this development to proceed going ahead".
There is no such thing as a mistaking that it is a main shift in technique for Sony. It's well-known for providing first-party titles that largely deal with single-player narrative experiences, whereas its opponents in recent times have pushed ahead with video games similar to Microsoft's Minecraft and Sea of Thieves and Epic's Fortnite.
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