The hacker attack on Insomniac Games includes not only information about the famous American studio’s plans to create Spider-Man and in the future Wolverine or X-Men, but also internal correspondence and materials related to PlayStation. Among them is Sony’s attitude towards Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
It is clear from the documents that Sony concern about competition. According to the Japanese corporation, Americans are able to leapfrog their current foundations. Sony notes that Xbox now has more studios and powerful games with live service. This also points to mobile scalability, the mobile app/game store being prepared to compete with Google Play and the App Store, and the PC sales platform (Battle.net).
Sony has more fear of losing Call of Duty, mentions 2027, when this series may no longer be released on PlayStation (this is old information, the agreement was signed for 10 years). This scenario is considered a serious threat and risk for PS Pluswhich generates $1.5 billion in annual revenue. CoD is mentioned here again because many players buy subscriptions to play the multiplayer of these games.
Sony also sees the day when Microsoft starts offering Activision Blizzard games on Game Pass as a threat. Despite this, Sony does not intend to follow this example and will adhere to a premium business modelwhen games will be sold at full price first on PlayStation and then on PC.
At the same time, the documents say that “Sony’s pillars” within the framework of a multi-platform vision, live services and the mobile market lag behind competitors. The question is what Sony will do in the coming years. The company had high hopes for the online service and wanted to create multiplayer games not only based on its famous brands. There were many in development 12However, many of them are under review and only half of them will be published by the end of March 2026. Besides The Last of Us Online has been cancelled..
Sony has spent heavily on its plan to create live-service games. She bought the developer Fate from Bungie, Haven Studios led by Jade Raymond, or Firewalk Studios. Destiny’s revenues are worse now, the studio is preparing a sci-fi PvP loot shooter MarathonHaven introduced a competitive heist event Fair play$ and Firewalk again Concord, another sci-fi multiplayer mode that pits players against each other. Next there should be multiplayer from the world of Horizon and cooperative events from the London PlayStation studio, the authors of Blood & Truth.
Source :Indian TV
