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Why the gradual death of the console exclusive makes business sense


Back in 2021, GamesIndustry.biz spoke to former PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan about his hopes for the future of the company.…

In a panel GI.biz held at IGN Live last week, former PlayStation Worldwide Studios president Shawn Layden said the games market is "still in the 250m overall install base of active consoles, and that's a challenge." It's currently building a mobile games store, and has been launching all of its first-party titles on PC, on the day they come out on console, for the best part of a decade. The mobile games have attracted hundreds of millions of players (although haven't been as lucrative as expected), while the Mario movie was one of the biggest animated films of all time, and its release even increased sales of Switch hardware.

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