Live Service Game Horizon Online Reportedly Guerrilla’s Next Project, Horizon 3 ‘Might Be a Ways Off’
Horizon developer Guerrilla Games’ next project is the live service Horizon Online project, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has said.
Schreier told Spawn Wave’s Spawncast the promised Horizon 3 "might be a ways off," however. “Guerrilla is an interesting place, because they’re working on this Horizon online game that... I’m not sure how many people want that,” Schreier said, raising questions about Guerrilla’s strategy.
“They’ve got this [Horizon Zero Dawn] remaster coming and the Lego game [Lego Horizon Adventures] coming. What happens if neither of those hit, and it turns out there isn't a ton of interest in Horizon anymore? Are they still gonna be doing the online game? There are a lot of questions around their strategy and around that online game that I certainly have.”
Sony’s live service push has seen a hit in Arrowhead’s PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter Helldivers 2, which is the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game of all time, but Firewalk’s hero shooter Concord flopped hard, becoming one of the most disastrous launches in PlayStation history.
And at a time when the live service market is dominated by old games that continue to gobble up players’ attention and, crucially, their spend, newcomers are finding it increasingly difficult to carve out a piece of the action. Before Concord’s release and subsequent shut down, the most high-profile live service casualty was Rocksteady’s much-maligned Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which flopped to the tune of $200 million for publisher Warner Bros.
Sony itself has scaled back its live service ambitions dramatically following big investment. In November last year, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the company was reviewing the 12 live service PlayStation games it had in the works, and committed to launching only six of them by the end of financial year 2025. The following month, in December 2023, Naughty Dog announced the cancellation of The Last of Us Online, its troubled attempt to create a live service
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