Sony partners with Discord to improve their voice communications systems on the PlayStation Network, Sony announced Monday.
PlayStation-Discord partnership to improve PSN voice communications
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The PlayStation Network (PSN) will eventually get better voice comms by 2022. Sony invested a minority stake during one of Discord's investment rounds. Through this partnership, Sony plans to integrate Discord into the PSN. Sony President and CEO Jim Ryan writes,
“Together, our teams are already hard at work connecting Discord with your social and gaming experience on PlayStation Network. Our goal is to bring the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile starting early next year, allowing friends, groups, and communities to hang out, have fun, and communicate more easily while playing games together.”
The exact effects of this partnership remain to be seen. The investment only begins with the PlayStation-Discord partnership. Adding the voice communications app into PSN would be wonderful, especially with the app's mobile presence. It also seems that this move will help cross-platform play between PSN users and non-PSN users by giving them a better voice comms system.
“Empowering players to create communities and enjoy shared gaming experiences is at the heart of what we do,” says Ryan. “We are beyond excited to start this journey with one of the world’s most popular communication services.”
News of the PlayStation-Discord partnership comes just a week after they called off their deal with Microsoft. Being a rival of Sony, it seems that Microsoft lost a bidding war in exerting influence over Discord. The voice communications app has experienced massive growth over the past few years, benefitting from an increase in gaming hours by players stuck at home due to the global pandemic situation.
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