PlayStation’s multiplayer shooter Harmony launched on August 23, 2024. Right this moment, Sony is shutting down the sport’s developer, Firewalk Studios.
This was Firewalk’s first and solely launch. Sony acquired the studio in 2023, with Harmony seemingly a significant a part of the corporate’s push into live-service video games.
Harmony was solely on sale for 2 weeks earlier than PlayStation pulled the title. On the time, the way forward for the sport appeared unclear. Now, it seems unlikely that we’ll ever see Harmony obtainable for play in any capability once more.
PlayStation has additionally closed Neon Koi, which was engaged on a triple-A live-service sport of its personal. This might imply that Sony is retreating from (or a minimum of reevaluating) the technique of relying on such video games for future development, regardless of the success of Helldivers II early this 12 months. Neon Koi was additionally purported to be part of PlayStation’s push to cell.
“Increasing past PlayStation units and crafting participating on-line experiences alongside our single-player video games are key focal areas for us as we evolve our income streams,” stated Herman Hulst, CEO of Studio Enterprise Group at Sony Interactive Leisure, in an inner e mail to SIE workers. “We have to be strategic, although, in bringing our video games to new platforms and acknowledge when our video games fall in need of assembly participant expectations.”
