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PlayStation CEO doesn't want first party studios to "play it safe" but "fail early and cheaply"


PlayStation CEO Hermen Hulst wants the company to mitigate expensive risks with its future games, following last year's…

PlayStation CEO Hermen Hulst wants the company to mitigate expensive risks with its future games, following last year's high profile failure of live-service shooter Concord. Speaking to Financial Times(via IGN), Hulst reflected on Concord's failure in comparison to the huge success of mascot platformer Astro Bot. Playstation has now put into place more supervision of Sony's owned studios, to ensure Concord's fate isn't repeated.

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