Sony’s live-service game initiative has been reduced to four first-party studios

Sony has published a report on its games segment for investors, which contains an overview of what its first-party studios are currently doing — nothing too detailed, of course. However, what the presentation does show is that only four of Sony’s first-party studios are currently working on live-service games: Bungie, Sony San Diego, Haven, and teamLFG.

Bungie is working on its extraction shooter Marathon, which is set to be released in September 2025, while teamLFG has only been established recently and is working on an as-yet undefined team-based action game. Sony San Diego is pumping out MLB The Show annually, while Haven is tackling Sony’s own take on the heist genre with a title called Fairgame$ that’s set to come to PC and PS5.

A much greater part of Sony’s developers work on single-player titles, as this category lists the following studios:

• Insomniac Games
• Housemarque
• Team Asobi
• Naughty Dog
• Sucker Punch
• Sony Santa Monica
• Firesprite

Another six studios are working on “evolving/multi-genre” games, among them Guerilla, the studio behind the Horizon IP.

Sony named Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 as its “tentpole releases” for the ongoing fiscal year, with Marvel’s Wolverine and Intergalactic set to wear this mantle in the near future. For the live-service ambitions, Marathon is FY25’s focus and Fairgame$ is set to follow it.

Sony declared itself the victor in this round of the console war, writing that it “established a leading position in this console generation” — a position from which the Japanese company aims to expand its franchises across PC and other forms of entertainment, such as TV shows, movies, and anime series.

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