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As PS5 hits 65M consoles, Sony president signals return to single-player games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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As Sony announced its PlayStation 5 lifetime sales of shipped units surpassed 65 million in its most recent quarter, Sony’s president Hiroki Totoki said the company is focusing on major single-player games for its future.

Sony’s single-player games like God of War have been the staple of Sony’s successful game consoles, but the company experimented with live-service games such as Concord, a game that was eight years in the making and reportedly cost hundreds of millions to make. The game launched this year, failed, and Sony shut down the Firewalk Studios division that made the game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.