It appears to be like like the following 12 months might be a comparatively quiet one on the first-party entrance for Sony, as the corporate has stated that it’s going to not be releasing any main PlayStation franchise video games earlier than April 2025 on the earliest. Talking in a monetary name, Sony Interactive Leisure boss Hiroki Totoki defined that whereas “main” tasks are at present in improvement, it will be focusing extra on its live-service video games all through its subsequent monetary 12 months, which ends on March 31, 2025.
“Relating to first-party software program, we intention to proceed to give attention to producing high-quality works and growing live-service video games,” Totoki said. “However whereas main tasks are at present beneath improvement, we don’t plan to launch any new main current franchise titles subsequent fiscal 12 months like God of Warfare Ragnarok and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Though the burden of acquisition-related prices will ease subsequent fiscal 12 months, we anticipate revenue from first-party software program to lower barely from this fiscal 12 months because of the affect of the lower in gross sales.”
Whereas it is too early to anticipate new Spider-Man or God of Warfare video games, this does rule out new entries from a few of Sony’s different huge franchises, like Ghost of Tsushima or The Final of Us, in 2025 At the identical time, new online game franchises like FairGame$, Marathon, and Harmony are in various phases of improvement, whereas the 12 months forward will see the discharge of a number of PlayStation timed exclusives like Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Rise of the Ronin, and Stellar Blade.
The opposite huge information popping out of the briefing was Sony confirming that it had failed to fulfill its bold gross sales goal of promoting 25 million PS5s through the present monetary 12 months, main it to revise this projection to 21 million gross sales. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has additionally bought over 10 million copies thus far and the corporate talked about that the PS5 is now within the “latter stage” of its lifecycle.