Sony aims to "increase the number of active users on PC" amid live-service push

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Sony has said it intends to💫 increase its PC player base as it pushes into the live-service space.

In its new , SIE sounded hopeful that its acquisition of original Halo🐠 developer and Destiny creator Bungie would help bolster its live-service operation. In addition, the company suggested that its push into live-service could expand the amount of people playing the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:ever-growing catalog of �🍷�PlayStation games on PC.

As part of its strategy to boost active users across the board, Sony said "knowledge sharing from Bungie" will enhance the company's "ability to develop and operate live service games," partly with♒ the "aim to increase the number of active users on PCs."

Although we've heard a fair bit about Sony's larger strategy around live-service, we've still yet to see the fruits of its labor. We've heard reports that The Last of Us multiplayer project will be free-to-play 🏅and "very, very live-servicey,", but that's still unconfirmed. Meanwhile, PlayS༺tation London's yet-untitled fantasy online co-op game definitely sounds like a live-service game, but we still don't kn🎀ow much about it.

Then there's Haven Studios, which PlaySt𒈔ation has said it specifically picked up because it had "a lot of experience with live-ser🌠vice games." Again, we know something's in the oven but it's unclear exactly what, beyond the fact tha♒t it's in the 🎀increasingly broad live-service category.

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Deviation Games, a studio set up by former Treyꦫarch developers, in June 2021, but recently the company suffered some substantial layoffs (via ), painting a grim picture for the f𝓡uture of the project.

Finally, we have Bungie, Sony's would-be Trump card in its race to live-service prominence. We've seen no signs of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Destiny 2 slowing down any time soon with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Season of the Deep set to go live next week, and the studio has yet to reveal its next project, but reports suggest it could be a revival of the Marathon in the ♑vein of Escape from Tarkov. 

In February of 2022, Sony sa♒id it would release 10 PS5 multiplayer games by 2026, and just a few weeks ago added that its live-service offerings would range🔯 in scope and gꦐenre. Last October, it suggested PlayStation live-service games cou൩ld hit PC "day and date" with PS5, so it's very possible the aforementioned projects will be available ☂to PC gamers right at l💫aunch.

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