14 DAY TRIAL // Sony confirms that it's quite confident in the ever-growing free-to-play segment of the gaming market and wants to focus more and more on such experiences in the future on the PS4 home console.
Gaming has changed in all sorts of ways in recent years and by far one of the most controversial areas that have grown in this time is the free-to-play segment, which is filled both with high-quality titles like League of Legends or Dota 2, but also games of a more dubious quality that choose to push microtransactions and other such things onto players.
With the debut of the PS4, Sony is banking big on the free-to-play market and has already allowed major titles like Warframe or War Thunder to have a presence on the home console, while pushing its own titles through the former Sony Online Entertainment division, which is now called Daybreak.
Sony is going to focus more and more on free-to-play
While talking about the future of free-to-play titles on the PS4, Sony's Sarah Thompson confirms that it's going to grow even more in the following years. She talked at GDC 2015 this week with GameSpot and mentions that Sony's digital revenue will be based more and more on free-to-play experiences, besides the regular digital distribution of full games or DLC.
"We're really looking at this as a significant part of our digital business," she says about free-to-play experiences. "I think that it's going to be a really a big chunk of our revenues in the next few years; 3-5 years. And it's already growing at amazing rates that are really quite surprising."
Due to the aforementioned growth, Sony is going to focus more and more on free-to-play experiences, while simultaneously still working on regular titles with its internal studios, such as Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and other such things.