Sony management reckons that the corporate doesn’t have sufficient unique IP, together with in its PlayStation division. The Group is making a “multibillion-dollar” funding into creating unique content material in a bid to widen its share of the leisure business, and in an interview with Monetary Occasions, expressed its need to “foster” new IP from the start.
Is PlayStation actually missing unique IP?
“Whether or not it’s for video games, movies or anime, we don’t have that a lot IP that we fostered from the start,” Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki informed Monetary Occasions. “We’re missing the early part (of IP) and that’s a difficulty for us.”
Totoki added that Sony, as a complete, has been higher at discovering new audiences for present well-liked IPs, and thinks that the corporate received’t develop with out creating content material from scratch for increased returns.
Whereas new IP is actually welcome, these feedback are just a little puzzling in the case of PlayStation as a result of the corporate has quite a few sport franchises that it fostered from the start (or may have), however have since been deserted. Look no additional than the featured picture above for some hints. Heck, one in every of PlayStation’s largest new hits from the PS4 period, Bloodborne, has just about been left to die… at the least that’s what it appears like proper now.
In the meantime, video games like Till Daybreak get one other lease of life in type of a remake, and we’re not fairly positive who requested for that.
