Does Sony Need an Esport game?

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I believe the Rocket League pro-league is on PS4.

But if you mean a genuine 1st party exclusive E-sport, then arguably no it it doesn't, because PS4 seems to be doing very well without one. Of course Sony attempted it with PSABR, but it fell flat, albeit I really enjoyed the game. However it was bad model for a 1v1 type E-sports game, whereas SSB actually works very well

But if you mean "need" as in wouldn't it be awesome to have an E-sport based around Playstation characters, then I agree, that would be great. And indeed it's something I've thought about and I have a proposal:

In association with Hi-Rez studios, a complete re-skin of Smite to turn all of the gods into Playstation characters, and a few select 3rd party characters with strong association with PS, and redo all the maps in iconic PS themes. The game would be called Playstation Battle Arena.

And of course with major cross over between God of War and the Greek Smite pantheon some of the PSBA characters would be more or less the same as their Smite counterparts. Zeus would be GoW Zeus, Athena would be GoW Athena, Mercury could be GoW Mercury, but he could also be Crash Bandicoot, Apollo could be GOW Apollo, though I would prefer if he became Secret Agent Clank, Mercury would become GoW Hermes. But Hercules would have to be ditched for Kratos to use the Hercules skill set.

Thor would become Ratchet. Ratatoskr would become Daxter. Elena could be Neith. Ymir could be Captain Qwark. Janus could be Dr. Nefarious. Hou Yi could be Nate Drake. Vamana could be Clank.