Sony PlayStation will strengthen investment in areas such as PC, mobile and Live Service games

CTOnews.com, Oct. 4, according to Reuters, an executive of Sony Group said that the company's gaming business is looking for new investment to promote the development of PC and mobile. At present, Sony is competing with competitors for talent, and M & An activity in the industry is also heating up.

"it is absolutely possible for us to strengthen further investment in areas such as PC, mobile devices and Live Service games," Hermen Hulst, director of PlayStation Studios, said in an interview.

CTOnews.com learned that the so-called Live Service type games, that is, after the release of the game ontology, develop a long-term content update support plan for it.

Sony's studio is famous for single-player console games such as Spider-Man and Ares. According to the report, the company has made plans to release games on PC and mobile devices, and to offer Live Service-style games, bringing up-to-date ways of playing.

The shift is also reflected in Sony's recent deals, including the acquisition of Bungie for $3.6 billion (about 25.56 billion yuan). This is the behind-the-scenes studio of Destiny, a multiplayer game operated by Sony outside the PlayStation Studios network.

Other investments include the acquisition of a minority stake in Japanese developer FromSoftware, whose action role-playing game Elden Ring has sold more than 16.6 million units. Given the target scope of the transformation of the gaming business, analysts expect Sony to make more deals.