SONY Has No Plans To Shift From Narrative-Driven Titles To Live Service Games, According To PlayStation CEO
With the number of live-service games on the rise, some gamers have grown concerned over the future of narrative-driven titles, and now PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan hopes to ease their worries. More after the jump.
By kdet -
Jun 05, 2019 08:06 PM EST
Source: CNET
Over the past few years, we've seen a number of live service games, such as Apex and Fortnite, rise in popularity. As a result, several developers and video game franchises have taken a shot at producing a live service title.
Despite their immense popularity, however, this "games as a service model" has caused some concern among gamers, as they worry about developers moving away from more from more story-driven titles to a model similar to PUBG. In fact, just fairly recently, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 drew the ire of many fans for deciding to not include a campaign mode.
Fortunately for these concerned fans, the PS4 has served as a bastion of sorts for narrative-driven games, with exclusive titles like Marvel's Spider-Man, Uncharted 4, and God of War taking the world by storm. Now, in an interview with CNET, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan discusses whether there is any chance this could change.
"We've never had greater success with our own narrative-driven, story-based games than we're having right now," Ryan explained. "We feel good about that, and it's certainly not a genre of gaming we'll ever walk away from."
The CEO then went on to share his thoughts on the future of live service games and their popularity:
"Service games, when done well, will continue to be popular and grow in popularity. But only as the overall gaming ecosystem grows, and more people are playing more and more games longer and longer."
With highly anticipated projects like Death Stranding, The Last of Us Part II, and Ghost of Tsushima still in the pipeline, it seemed highly unlikely that PlayStation would shift away from narrative-based games, especially since they've proven to be quite lucrative in the past. Of course, hearing from Jim Ryan himself should help put any worried fans at ease.