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PlayStation might feel Xbox is a little behind the curve, however. The era of single-player games is not ending, but if you get a multiplayer game right, that’s where the money is. Of course, if you get it wrong it can quickly become a money pit. It’s a risky venture. Xbox’s attempts with Halo faltered, but if the♏ Activision deal goes through it will own Call of Duty and the incred🐈ibly profitable mobile arm that comes with Ki🥂ng. PlayStation’s acquisitions have gone under the radar, but there is a pattern there.
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This isn’t the only studio Sony has bought up recently. Though it arrived shortly after the much larger Microsoft-Activision deal and therefore went a little unnoticed, Sony bought up Bungie. The original Halo creators, now at the helm of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Destiny 2, know how to make an online shooter that can sense where the genre nౠeeds to go and sets trends that shape studios around them. Destiny is staying cross-plat, but Bungie will be cooking something Sony hopes can widen its roster to include must-have multiplayer adventures alongside its respecte🌞d single-player stable.
We’re still not done. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2 was meant to ship with a multiplayer mode. We’re three years, a remaster, and a TV series out from that date, but the multiplayer expansion (which will now be its own solo game) is still moving ahead. Creator Neil Druckmann has been cagey on the details, refusing even to call it Factions 2 despite, you know, it being Factions 2. However, he has confirmed it’s being actively worked on and an update, if not a release, is expected th𓂃is year.
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Could some of the single-player specialists now be on service games? Or is the play to continue making acquisitions aimed at multiplayer development? Whatever the outcome, it seems likely Sony has looked at the money 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:GTA Online, and FIFA make and has decided it wants some of that swไeet moolah.
Already the most popular console, with PlayStation almost a shorthand for consoles in general just as Nintendo🎃 was once upon a time, Sony has a built-in audience. It has earned and kept that audience by throwing fresh adventures at them every few months. Now, it seems it wants just one adventure that can lock people in for months at a time. Well, it wants ten versions of that ‘just one game’. It’s a gamble, but it’s playing with house money and loaded dice. Expect it to pay off.