{"id":871335,"date":"2025-09-08T00:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/after-concord-and-a-string-of-delays-and-cancellations-sony-admits-playstations-live-service-strategy-is-not-entirely-going-smoothly\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:13:04","slug":"after-concord-and-a-string-of-delays-and-cancellations-sony-admits-playstations-live-service-strategy-is-not-entirely-going-smoothly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/after-concord-and-a-string-of-delays-and-cancellations-sony-admits-playstations-live-service-strategy-is-not-entirely-going-smoothly\/","title":{"rendered":"After Concord and a string of delays and cancellations, Sony admits PlayStation&#8217;s live-service strategy is &#8220;not entirely going smoothly&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s chief financial officer Lin Tao has admitted PlayStation&#8217;s live-service strategy &#8211; which has seen a string of high-profile flops, delays, and cancellations after a bullish start back in 2022 &#8211; is &#8220;not entirely going smoothly&#8221;. Tao has also confirmed Destiny developer Bungie&#8217;s independence is to be reduced as it&#8217;s folded into PlayStation Studios&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-concord-and-a-string-of-delays-and-cancellations-sony-admits-playstations-live-service-strategy-is-not-entirely-going-smoothly\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Matt Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s chief financial officer Lin Tao has admitted PlayStation&#8217;s live-service strategy &#8211; which has seen a string of high-profile flops, delays, and cancellations after a bullish start back in 2022 &#8211; is &#8220;not entirely going smoothly&#8221;. Tao has also confirmed Destiny developer Bungie&#8217;s independence is to be reduced as it&#8217;s folded into PlayStation Studios&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,36325,192],"tags":[5078,63420],"class_list":{"0":"post-871335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-after","8":"category-concord","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-after","11":"tag-concord"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}