PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino said the company still sees live-service games as key to its future and will continue investing in the genre despite past failures. The comments follow scaled-back plans, multiple cancellations, and only one major hit in Helldivers 2.
Many people are trying various things, so Sony wants to continue taking on challenges in that context.
Of the titles that shipped, only Helldivers 2 achieved runaway success while others such as Concord proved short-lived.
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