The SonyPlayStation 4 has been a monumental success over the last five years. The biggest driver of the PlayStation 4’s boom has been the steady cadence of exclusive games, many of which have been released to positive reviews and massive sales. Shawn Layden is the chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) Worldwide Studios, which oversees the 13 global studios that produce exclusive PlayStation 4 games. In an interview with Business Insider, Layden shared the secret recipe to the PlayStation 4’s success, detailing how he and his team navigate the ever-changing world of game development to achieve critical and financial success. The PlayStation 4 has dominated the current video game cycle over the past five years – and exclusive games like “Marvel’s Spider-Man,” “Uncharted 4,” and “God of War” are a big reason for that. The numbers highlight the importance of exclusives: Five of the top 10 best-selling PlayStation 4 games of all-time can’t be played on any other console, and 13 of the 28 PlayStation 4 games that made more than $US1 million in sales – about half – are also PS4 exclusives. It’s not just sales. On Metacritic, which aggregates reviews from different publications, six of the top 10 best-reviewed PS4 games are exclusives, and roughly one-third of the PS4 games with a Metacritic score of at least 90 are exclusives as well. Not every exclusive PS4 title has been a mega-smash hit, and some releases feel directed towards different audiences. But there’s an underlying quality where each production,… [Read full story]
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