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Hermen Hulst: PlayStation Live Services Games to Launch Day and Date on PS5 and PC

Hermen Hulst: PlayStation Live Services Games to Launch Day and Date on PS5 and PC - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 May 2024 / 2,593 Views

The senior vice president and head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst, who will be appointed Co-CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed going forward PlayStation will launch live service games day and date on the PlayStation 5 and PC.

"Indeed we are bringing our titles to the PC platform and we have a dual approach here," said Hulst. "On the live service side we are releasing our titles simultaneously, so day and date, on PlayStation 5 and PC."

Hulst added they are taking a different approach with their single-player, narrative-drive games. The hopes with bringing those games later on is that it will get PC players to buy a PlayStation console in order to play the sequels.

"But with our tentpole titles, our single-player narrative-drive titles that are...as you saw in the presentation the backbone of what PlayStation Studios has delivered in recent years and in our history. We take a more strategic approach and we introduce our great franchises to new audiences and we are finding new audiences that are potentially going to be very interested in playing sequels on the PlayStation platform.

"We have high hopes that we are actually able to bring new players into PlayStation at large, but into PlayStation platforms specifically. 

"Actually the same goes for the work that we do with extending our great properties onto other media. Such as television series and film for example. As you have seen with The Last of Us on HBO or Gran Turismo, the film, that brings in new players into our franchises."

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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-Adonis- (on 30 May 2024)

Nothing new then.
If SE could announce a release date for FFXVI on PC it would be nice. It's been a year...

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NoLimitVito -Adonis- (on 30 May 2024)

its already confirmed for June 22 for PC is it not?

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-Adonis- NoLimitVito (on 30 May 2024)

Unfortunatly we don't have a release date announced yet :-(

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trunkswd -Adonis- (on 30 May 2024)

You never know it might get announced at the State of Play.

There are rumors of God of War Ragnarok getting announced for PC soon, which is what I am most looking forward to playing once it hits PC.

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-Adonis- trunkswd (on 30 May 2024)

Yes that would be nice.

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Qwark trunkswd (on 30 May 2024)

Why would Sony announce a game they don't publish themselves going to a platform they don't own and will not receive anything from?

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Blood_Tears Qwark (on 30 May 2024)

My thoughts exactly. FF16 on PC has nothing to do with Sony and therefore would not be announced at the SoP.

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The Fury (on 30 May 2024)

Seems their issue now will be releasing in countries that PSN isn't available. It seems short sighted to want to open up their library like this but at the same time restrict the sales because some countries don't have PSN and as the future of most online games is having to register with the publisher to play the least they could do is officially release PSN in ALL EU countries.

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