PlayStation-level live gaming service is Sony’s goal

Sony completes acquisition of Haven Studioswhich was announced in March of this year. Then we learned that a team led by an experienced Jade Raymond grows beautifully. Out of 30 people, there were more than 60 at the beginning of this year and now Haven Studios has grown to 106 employees..

One of the new hires is Jalal El Mansoori, CTO of Rainbow Six Siege, who previously worked with Jade at Google. He joined Haven two weeks ago and has become Head of Research and Development. The studio invests considerable resources in it, including cloud ones. He is focused on long-term investment in the cloud as he believes it will change the way games are made.. Also, everyone enjoys working with Mark Czerny, Chief Architect of PlayStation.

We officially know that in Haven working on a PlayStation 5 exclusivewhich will be a live service. Jade set out to create such a game, but with the PlayStation-level graphics that gamers have come to expect. In this they should be helped by working in the cloud, on which the entire team was built from the very beginning.

Sony wants to gradually invest more money in the live service, and not just create story-driven single player games. Because of this, she bought Bungie, the creator of Destiny.