Sony announced yesterday evening that it had acquired Haven Studios, a new studio founded by former EA Motive founder Jade Raymond, while also partnering with it to launch a multiplayer game for AAA online services. Although Sony currently attaches great importance to online service-based multiplayer games, Sony also said that they will still insist on only doing single-player games, but online service-based multiplayer games are also "exciting".
Hermen Hulst, head of SIE's global studios, said SIE will continue to make games based on single-player narratives, such as Souls of Tsushima, The Last Survivor, and Horizon West. However, you have also found that SIE has invested in online service games, because this is a very exciting thing for SIE. SIE now has quite a few new things and ideas, and they are creating in-house development capabilities for online service-oriented games, so Sony is very welcome to a group of people with extensive experience in online services to the SIE Global Studio family.
In Sony's third-quarter earnings meeting, Sony decided to release ten online service-oriented games by March 2026, including a new game from Bungie that has just joined SIE's global studios, the Last of Us multiplayer experience, and more. However, in GT Racing 7, a game that has already embarked on an online service, this game is currently heavily criticized by players due to in-app purchases and online models. Hopefully, Sony will be able to get the "True Scriptures" on Bungie and Haven.