Sony looks set to close the gap between the launch of its PlayStation exclusives and PC ports (which is why they technically cease to be exclusives). Company president Hiroki Totoki wants PlayStation to “work aggressively to improve our bottom line,” with “multi-platform” games playing a significant role. During a call with investors, he clarified that by multi-platform he meant PlayStation and PC, not Xbox or Switch.
When asked about Sony’s earnings not keeping up with gross revenue growth, he said hardware and first-party games are two areas the company is focusing on. He noted that reducing hardware costs in this console production cycle is “difficult to achieve,” Engadget reports.
PS5 sales reached 55 million – Sony reduced the forecast for the year (from 25 to 21 million) and said not to expect the continuation of famous franchises until April 2025
I personally believe there is room for margin improvement, so I would like to aggressively work to improve our margin performance.
Totoki has hinted that one way to achieve this is to make more money from his (often critically acclaimed and commercially successful) PlayStation Studios games like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and God of War: Ragnarok.
The game can be developed through multi-platform and this can help improve operating margins, so this is another area we want to actively work on.
This is a significant change from PlayStation Studios chief Hermann Hulst’s thoughts in 2022. At the time, he said that PC gamers would have to wait “at least a year” before they would see games from PlayStation studios on their computers (minus games for online services). About four years passed between the release of God of War (2018) and the first Spider-Man on consoles and PC. Regarding the spin-off about Miles Morales, the gap was about two years.
On February 8, Sony launched Helldivers 2 on PS5 and Windows simultaneously. The game set the highest concurrent player count on Steam for PlayStation Studios, beating out God of War (2018), The Last of Us Part I and Horizon Zero Dawn. Helldivers 2 was developed by Arrowhead Games in collaboration with Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Helldivers 2 set a new record among PlayStation Studios games on Windows PC – 150 thousand simultaneous players on Steam
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