Sony Is Planning To Invest Heavily Into Live-Service Games With Bungie Buyout

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PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has commented on Sony's buyout of Bungie, discussing how the Destiny studio will help Sony make further inroads into the live-service category and help it go «beyond» the console alone.

Speaking to GI.biz, Ryan said Sony and Bungie are «like two pieces of a jigsaw that can slot together.» Whereas Sony has historically been best known for its single-player, story-heavy games, Bungie is skilled at developing «massive, immersive games that have no end,» Ryan said.

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Ryan said Sony was considering making more live-service games before buying Bungie, but acquiring the studio helps Sony reach this goal even faster.

«I would back us to do [live-service games] ourselves, but when you have the potential to have a partner like Bungie who has been there, done it all before, learned the lessons and have got this wonderful, brilliant team who is there and has the potential to help us… we think we can take something that would have taken a certain number of years, and significantly decrease the time it will take to get it right,» Ryan said.

Also in the interview, Ryan touched on Sony's plans to grow the size of the PlayStation community by «expanding beyond our historic console heartland.» The executive said this might take the form of releasing games «in different places and played in different ways.» Sony is already doing this by releasing some of its console games on PC, including God of War most recently. But the expansion is also