PlayStation Admits Its Live-Service Games Have Been Rocky, Acknowledges "Negative News" About Marathon

Eddie Makuch
8/7/2025

Sony's live-service video game releases haven't all succeeded like Helldivers 2 did, with Concord being a particularly high-profile failure. Sony CFO Lin Tao said during the company's earnings briefing this week that "it's not entirely going smoothly" as it relates to live-service games. But Tao pointed out that Sony has come a long way in the past half-decade."If you look five years ago, live-service games were almost non-existent for PlayStation Studios," Tao said, as reported by This Week In Video Games. "In terms of the transformation, it's not entirely going smoothly, but from a longer-term perspective, if you look at the changes over five years, you see that there has definitely been change."Tao went on to say that Sony is still working through "many issues" in its pursuit of live-service games. "So we should learn lessons from mistakes and make sure that we introduce live-service content, where there's less waste and it's more smooth," Tao said.Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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