As a part of Sony’s newly published Corporate Report for 2025, the corporate disclosed new data and updates on all of its enterprise items, together with the PlayStation division. One a part of the report that stands out is Sony re-stating its dedication to live-service video games regardless of some stumbles and points in latest instances.
Within the doc, Sony mentioned the corporate “continues to domesticate its stay companies experience,” citing video games like MLB The Present, Helldivers 2, Gran Turismo, and Future 2 as examples.
Sony additionally referred to as out one title that can be vital to the corporate’s live-service enterprise going ahead: Bungie’s Marathon. The sport was just lately delayed indefinitely and has been caught up in stolen artwork claims. The doc doesn’t point out every other upcoming live-service video games, nonetheless, together with the reportedly troubled Fairgame$.
That sport is in growth at Sony’s Haven Studios, whose prime boss, Jade Raymond, left the studio following obvious considerations about Fairgame$. The sport was reportedly delayed and is now mentioned to be coming in Spring 2026, placing it within the neighborhood of GTA 6 in Might 2026.
The director of Fairgame$, Daniel Drapeau, left the corporate earlier this yr. These modifications, and the dearth of point out in Sony’s company report, don’t essentially imply Fairgame$ is in hassle.
At one cut-off date, Sony needed to launch 12 live-service video games over the approaching years (alongside its dedication to single-player video games). Nevertheless, in Might 2023, Sony introduced that it was halving its deliberate live-service sport output, with administration stressing it needed to give attention to high quality over amount. After this announcement, Naughty Canine’s The Final of Us multiplayer sport was canceled in December 2023.
At first of 2024, although, Sony discovered its greatest success up to now within the live-service market with Helldivers 2–the sport went on to smash gross sales data and grow to be the No. 3 general best-selling sport of 2024 within the US. It just lately got here to Xbox, and, together with a brand new replace, has seen an enormous surge in reputation.
Sony’s greatest failure within the live-service market was Harmony, which launched in August 2024 and had such a dismal efficiency out of the gate that Sony rapidly took the sport offline and refunded all gamers. Its developer, Firewalk, was later closed. On the finish of 2024, Sony confirmed that it canceled a number of tasks, together with a live-service God of Struggle and one other live-service title from Bend.
Following the failure of Harmony, prime boss Hermen Hulst mentioned Sony put new constructions in place to assist guarantee its live-service video games come to market in higher form.