On March 29, Sony launched PS's new subscription service "Spartacus", but because Sony's first-party game launch will not join the service and the subscription is not cheap, many players think that it is completely devoid of Microsoft XGP incense. Jim Ryan, CEO of PlayStation, recently accepted the foreign media GamesIndustry.biz, saying that Live Service is more promising in the industry than subscription services.
Live Service, also known as Game Service, is a "game service", that is, after the release of the game body, a long-term DLC support plan is developed for it, and most of these games are multiplayer online games suitable for live broadcasting, such as GTA OL, Destiny 2, Rainbow Six: Siege, etc. are good examples.
Jim Lane believes that the huge growth in the revenue of the game industry in the past 10 years is inseparable from the "Live Service", because the type of game encourages players to invest in long-term sustainability, can increase user stickiness, he believes that investment in massively multiplayer online game services can attract more attention than subscription services. Because even single-player masterpieces have a time when the heat subsides, but online games are different.
In fact, from the perspective of Sony's acquisition of Bungie, they have already made plans to lay out online games, and even revealed by Shinobi602, a well-known game industry whistleblower in February this year: "PlayStation plans to launch 10 multiplayer online games by March 2026." The recently acquired Haven Studios is already making a PS5-exclusive multiplayer online game for Sony.