As stated by Hiroki Totoki in the Q&A with shareholders at Sony Group Website (live.irwebmeeting.com):

  • The number of Live Service projects planned to release by FY2025 was reduced from 12 to 6.
  • Sony is focusing on projects were they think they will meet quality expectations from gamers.
  • They will evaluate the state of the other six projects at a later date.
  • CosmicSploogeDrizzleOPMEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if this got widdled down further. Having 12 in development never meant that they would release 12. They probably have 12 concepts with unique ideas/hooks that they were testing out in hopes of bringing 2-3 to market. That’s my guess.

    TLoU was interesting to me since I was hoping there would be some sort of ongoing story with it. I play PS games for the stories, so any live service games would have to hook into that for me

    • PBPunchMEnglish
      1•10 months ago

      Same here. I do hope they have a story in the world like The Division or something similar. I remember reading that was the concept at first.

      • CosmicSploogeDrizzleOPMEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        I loved the division. The dark zones and the later game bullet sponges not so much, but I loved everything else.