Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D, focusing on live service. (insider-gaming.com)

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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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[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

And worse, they're nearly universally designed with always-online killswitches that destroy preservation for those games.

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