PlayStation Would not Have Sufficient Authentic IP, Says Sony

Sony management reckons that the corporate doesn’t have sufficient authentic IP, together with in its PlayStation division. The Group is making a “multibillion-dollar” funding into creating authentic content material in a bid to widen its share of the leisure business, and in an interview with Monetary Instances, expressed its want to “foster” new IP from the start.

Is PlayStation actually missing authentic IP?

“Whether or not it’s for video games, movies or anime, we don’t have that a lot IP that we fostered from the start,” Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki advised Monetary Instances. “We’re missing the early section (of IP) and that’s a difficulty for us.”

Totoki added that Sony, as a complete, has been higher at discovering new audiences for present fashionable IPs, and thinks that the corporate received’t develop with out creating content material from scratch for greater returns.

Whereas new IP is definitely welcome, these feedback are a bit of puzzling in the case of PlayStation as a result of the corporate has quite a few recreation franchises that it fostered from the start (or might have), however have since been deserted. Look no additional than the featured picture above for some hints. Heck, one in every of PlayStation’s greatest new hits from the PS4 period, Bloodborne, has just about been left to die… at the very least that’s what it seems like proper now.

In the meantime, video games like Till Daybreak get one other lease of life in type of a remake, and we’re not fairly certain who requested for that.