Former Sony boss says the industry's obsession with the 'mirage' of live service games is futile: 'The highway is littered with people wanting to take on Fortnite'

One thing I'm at least reasonably confident that we at the good ship PC Gamer share with you lot is the fact we're all a little sick of live service games. As fellow PCG writer Ted Litchfield put it in the article I just linked, "Surely we've seen enough to know that trying to retrofit a singleplayer studio into a 'live service machine go brrr' moneymaker is not a smart bet."

Joining the crowd of nodding heads on this particular matter is Shawn Layden, a former Sony exec who left the company in 2019...