Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development

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• Mallspice@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You just don’t learn. How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

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• quack@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The games industry desperately needs another crash.

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• Merva@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As long as there continues to be succesful live service games, they will never stop attempting to make new ones, because the succesful ones are the most profitable forms of entertainment ever devised.

  Of course there is only room for a limited amount of live service games on the market (since gamers only have one life to waste on them), so most of them will fail, and many of them even before leaving the drawing board it seems.

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  • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is an excellent point. An organisation the size of Sony is simply incapable of not attempting a live service hit as long as they have the resources to do so.

    A smaller player can pursue a strategy where they gain profits from their (somewhat specialized) segement of the market. Sony lacks that flexibility due to their size.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep, they can make a bunch of games that costs them hundreds of millions to make it they manage to make one that brings in billions in profit… That’s what we call gambling.

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    • Master167@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s what we call gambling.

      Most companies call it R&D.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But then, why do they keep canceling them before release? They don’t know if they’d have been hits or failures.

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    • Merva@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course we can’t really know what goes on behind the scenes. But obviously these kinds of games are designed by committee (namely board members). So every single detail is going to be dictated from above, and as new games are released by other publishers with new succesful features these dictates changes mid-production. I can’t but imagine that the development of live service games are a complete shitshow from start to finish.

      So perhaps at some point they decide to get rid of the entire mess and start afresh, only for the process to beging again of course.

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• mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wish them the best flop

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• gradual@lemmings.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

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• LorIps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1000031277

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For the love of god can we get another syphon filter or ape escape??

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    *Monkey’s paw curls*

    Your wish has been granted. Look forward to our upcoming Syphon: Extraction, an exciting extraction shooter with none of the gameplay you remember!

    Also on the docket is Ape Escape Infinity, a gacha featuring all your favorite apes and up to several minutes of gameplay. Now supports importing NFT apes, because our execs are still pushing crypto as the next big thing for some reason!

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Go fuck yourself.

      Just do it.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah the only reason I’ve have bought a PS 1 to 3 was to play Metal Gear Solid. I have bought neither the 4 nor 5, since no new MGS was released on it ( I played MGSV on ps3). A modernized Syphon Filter with improved stealth gameplay would definitely make me want to buy the PS5.

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    • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      PS3 was my last console.

      I stopped buying’em when they started charging for 2nd internet.

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• lustyargonian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Devil’s advocate: they created a new studio with all the lessons and right core employees who understand the space the best.

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  • newcockroach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well atleast they are trying stuff unlike some other trillion dollar company that keeps on buying studios but still fails the make good new ip (hell! they are struggling to keep halo intact).

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Funny how that almost describes several other US companies besides MS. Like Amazon keeps failing at releasing a game and when they do it’s trash. And Meta keeps losing billions in the VR space. Tech bros have no clue how the triple A gaming industry works, since games actually require creativity and you can’t simply hook people with an algorithm.

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    • lustyargonian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Word

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still read “live service” the way it’s pronounced on the jimqusition

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  • quack@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    LiVe SeRvIcE

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s even funnier the n^th time!

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