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Sony Online Entertainment chief says online frag game PlanetSide 2 is a smashing success (interview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PlanetSide 2 is off to a smashing start just a few weeks after launch. Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley (pictured below) said in an interview with GamesBeat that the free-to-play sci-fi shooting game has drawn a huge audience since its debut in North America and Europe on Nov. 20. It’s already the highest microtransaction-grossing game in the history of Sony Online Entertainment, which offers a number of other free-to-play massively multiplayer online games.

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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.