As part of the Bungie purchase, Sony Interactive Entertainment management has already noted that the studio hopes for expert assistance from the Bellevue game studio. However, it has only now become known how ambitious these plans are.
As part of a presentation to investors timed to coincide with the publication of the report for the third fiscal quarter, Sony’s chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki said that the company is planning a series of launches of game services.
“As part of the close collaboration between Bungie and PlayStation Studios, we plan to release more than 10 service games by March 2026,” Hiroki said.
Recall that a little earlier, immediately after the deal, Jim Ryan, the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, stated the following: “We have ambitious plans to create live services. Working with Bungie’s most talented employees will accelerate their implementation.”
Now it’s clear how serious Sony’s plans are.
“The strategic importance of this deal is not only to get a very successful franchise, which is Destiny, and a new IP being developed by Bungie, but it also consists in the inclusion of expertise and technologies that the studio has created in the Sony group of companies,” Hiroki also noted during the presentation.
According to his forecast, the purchase of Bungie will help double Sony’s gaming revenue by the end of fiscal 2025 (it ends just in March 2026). For understanding: over the past calendar year, the company’s gaming division earned $24.87 billion.