PlayStation maker Sony doesn’t have enough original franchises that it has “fostered from the start”.
That’s according to Sony chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki, who announced the same week that PlayStation was withdrawing Concorde from sale. financial Times“We are behind the initial phase (of IP) and that is an issue for us.”
“The one thing you need is IP, that’s the first step,” Jefferies analyst Atul Goel said in the same article. “And if you don’t start doing that or start buying that, the risk is that someone else will do it. So the risk is not doing anything at all.”
Totoki was referring to Sony in general, including the company’s gaming sector as well as films and anime. The executive added that Sony is generally better at finding an audience for content that has already become popular in its domestic market.
However, his words draw attention to the above point. Concorde BandThe game was available for less than two weeks, after which the company decided it needed to reevaluate its new franchise’s position in the market.
In a post earlier this week, Sony and developer Firewalk said Concord would be taken offline indefinitely so the team could “determine the best path forward” and “explore options, including those that would better reach our players.”
At the same time, PlayStation is about to release one of its most anticipated games of the year, Astro Bot.
The game itself is a tribute to the company’s franchise history, and is full of nostalgia. The bots from Sony’s games, such as Ellie and Joel from The Last of Us, Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, Horizon’s AloyAnd crash Bandicoot All have been confirmed to be included in the upcoming platformer.
