PlayStation has had a pretty up and down year, to put it mildly. Third-party titles like Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth propped up the PS5 early in the year, as did the enormous success of Helldivers 2, which has become one of the most successful live service titles this year. Then Concord happened.
Concord not only failed, but failed spectacularly, and was pulled from storefronts after less than a month. It was extremely expensive, and a talented studio in Firewalk was completely shut down as a result, so you'd assume that PlayStation would potentially want to cool its jets on live service to avoid another cataclysmic failure. Apparently, Concord wasn't enough to sway the company from its current course.
The video game industry is in a very dangerous place right now.
In a new interview in Famitsu (translated by InsiderGaming), PlayStation co-CEO Herman Hulst has recommitted to focusing on live service titles for the foreseeable future. In the interview, Hulst claims that people are still itching for "great entertainment experiences" but admits there is more competition nowadays.
"One thing that remains constant is people’s desire for great entertainment experiences, and attention...
