PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst has talked to the public about the current trajectory for their push for live service games.
He said this in a recent interview:
The number [of live service games] is not so important. What is important to me is having a diverse set of player experiences and a set of communities.
We have since put in place much more rigorous and more frequent testing in very many different ways. The advantage of every failure is that people now understand how necessary that [oversight] is.
Sony once had 12 live service games in active development.
Sony did not announce some of these games. We have been dependent on rumors to confirm them for now.
We'll run down each live service game as we know them below.
Hulst has consistently reiterated Sony's commitment to live service games after they shut down Concord.
If there's a positive to take from this, it's that Sony isn't prodding all their studios to do live service games anymore. Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Sucker Punch Productions, Santa Monica Studio, etc. will get to make the games they want. Hopefully it's also games that gamers will love.