Talking throughout its newest monetary outcomes in a single day, Sony Interactive Leisure confirmed that it’ll not ship ‘any new main present franchise titles’ earlier than March 31, 2025. Which means will presumably not see something from the likes of Marvel’s Spider-Man, God of Conflict, Ghost of Tsushima and different triple-A IPs throughout this era.
Hiroki Totoki, Sony Group president, chief working officer, and chief monetary officer, commented:
Concerning first-party software program, we goal to proceed to deal with producing high-quality works and creating stay service video games. However whereas main initiatives are at present below improvement, we don’t plan to launch any new main present franchise titles subsequent fiscal yr like God of Conflict Ragnarok and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
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Though the burden of acquisition associated prices will ease subsequent fiscal yr, we count on revenue from first-party software program to lower barely from this fiscal yr as a result of impression of the lower in gross sales. Attributable to this, working earnings for the subsequent fiscal yr is at present anticipated to extend barely from this fiscal yr. Nevertheless, whereas this our baseline, we’re reviewing measures for additional enchancment in profitability prematurely of the annual forecast outcomes announcement this Could.
Sony additionally revealed throughout its monetary outcomes that the PS5 has now shipped 54.8 million worldwide since its launch in November 2020.
[Source – Gematsu]
