PlayStation’s head of third-party content material has stated the platform’s upcoming video games slate is “unbelievably optimistic” and argued that the trade must be extra optimistic concerning the future.
Christian Svensson, Sony Interactive Leisure’s VP of second and third-party content material, was talking to The Recreation Enterprise about the way forward for the video games trade, at a time when layoffs, studio closures, and turbulent participant spending nonetheless repeatedly occupy information headlines.
Svensson’s workforce is accountable for supporting builders who wish to make video games for PlayStation 5 and thus has a novel view of what firms have deliberate for the upcoming years.
He stated that, primarily based on the video games he is aware of are coming, he believes that builders and publishers are making “very good choices” and that the video games trade ought to really feel extra snug concerning the future.
“Sooner or later, there’s going to be extra contact factors with gamers than ever, and determining easy methods to navigate the variety of gadgets, the variety of viewers segments, and discovering your viewers in your sport, that’s going to proceed to be the place the problem is,” he stated.
“I’m in an extremely privileged place to have superb visibility into what video games can be for the following 3, 4, 5 years. I actually can’t clarify to you… final yr was an incredible yr for video games.
“This yr can be even higher. Subsequent yr can be higher nonetheless. The trajectory of content material is unbelievably optimistic. And we as an trade must be tremendous optimistic about the place we’re going regardless of the headwinds.”
Svensson famous that, as a result of video games take years to make, the choices made by builders and publishers as we speak may not essentially be seen for a while.
“Clearly, the choices we’re making now bear in mind the place we’re at this second,” he stated. “We’re anticipating the place we’re going to be. There are not any dire occasions for the trade forward so far as I’m involved. Very good choices are being made by our companions and by platforms. Be extra snug than you suppose try to be.”
The exec’s feedback come months after PlayStation’s studios boss Hermen Hulst warned that “rising improvement prices, slowed trade development, altering participant conduct, and broader financial headwinds are making it more durable to construct video games sustainably,” in an announcement that it was closing Demon’s Souls remake studio Bluepoint.
“Whereas I do know that is laborious information to listen to, I’m assured within the route we’re headed. Creativity, innovation, and constructing unforgettable experiences for gamers stay on the coronary heart of PlayStation Studios,” he stated.
Then in March, Sony confirmed a major value enhance for PlayStation 5 consoles globally, with all fashions growing by not less than $100.
