Sony buys Bungie for 3,6 billion, will remain a multiplatform studio

[Jussi]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-is-buying-destiny-creator-bungie-for-3-6bn/

After completion of the deal, Bungie will be “an independent subsidiary” of the PlayStation firm and will remain a multiplatform studio, according to SIE.

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[Dolemite]

f***ing HUGE! This is the perfect counterpunch to Xbox’s news as of late!

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Wow 3.6B for one studio. Good for Bungie.

January has been wild.

 

[TheDoldrums]

this almost feels petty lol. Microsoft owns Spyro and Crash, now Sony bought the creators of Halo.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Meh

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Cool, I guess

 

[Dolemite]

Wow 3.6B for one studio. Good for Bungie.

January has been wild.

They have a competitive PvP (unannounced) project in development as well as Destiny 2.

 

[Beau Knows]

The video game industry is going to look like this soon:

 

[Dolemite]

The video game industry is going to look like this soon:

It’s a bit different on how it works in the Game industry. With being added to Sony they have insanely more bodies and talent to draw from when developing a game. This means that the creativity and quality will be insanely high.

 

[Beau Knows]

It’s a bit different on how it works in the Game industry. With being added to Sony they have insanely more bodies and talent to draw from when developing a game. This means that the creativity and quality will be insanely high.

That's the exact same thing you could say about corporations buying up food companies - that they have the resources, talent and infrastructure in place to improve the product.

Having more and more game studios owned by one of several giant corporations is not a good thing for consumers in the long term.

 

[93LEAFS]

Wow, I would have thought the counter punch was going to be buying Square Enix. But, this level of consolidation is not good for the industry as a whole.

 

[Blitzkrug]

That's a big and I'd even reckon a smart counterpunch by Sony.

PlayStation will eventually lose access to COD by the sounds of things leaving Sony with no big ticket shooter.

Buying Bungie solves that twofold; it gives them control over a studio that can make you one along with a stupidly profitable IP in destiny to go along with it.

I really don't like where this is heading for the industry though

 

[93LEAFS]

That's a big and I'd even reckon a smart counterpunch by Sony.

PlayStation will eventually lose access to COD by the sounds of things leaving Sony with no big ticket shooter.

Buying Bungie solves that twofold; it gives them control over a studio that can make you one along with a stupidly profitable IP in destiny to go along with it.

I really don't like where this is heading for the industry though

They solved their First person shooter problem, but 3.6B is a hell of a price to do it.

 

[Apex Predator]

This is how I see the gaming industry going. They want us to by the console and then subscribe to the online service for all games. So if they make games only on one system you either have to buy the two systems and buy the subscriptions. Like we do with Netflix, Amazon, Disney etc.

 

[Blitzkrug]

They solved their First person shooter problem, but 3.6B is a hell of a price to do it.

The destiny IP makes hella money too don't forget.

They rake in copious amounts of money off of the yearly expansions plus all the gaudy shit they sell in microtransactions.

This is definitely a similar long term investment/gain in the same vein of Microsoft buying Activision to get that sweet sweet COD revenue stream..

 

[TheDoldrums]

They solved their First person shooter problem, but 3.6B is a hell of a price to do it.

I don't think Destiny and CoD are competitors though, they seem like very different types of games (granted I play neither).

 

[tarheelhockey]

That's the exact same thing you could say about corporations buying up food companies - that they have the resources, talent and infrastructure in place to improve the product.

Having more and more game studios owned by one of several giant corporations is not a good thing for consumers in the long term.

I would actually say in the food industry it works somewhat to the consumer's advantage, in the sense that most progress with food items comes down to scientific advancements. From the standpoint of shelf-stable mass production, one massive corporation with 10,000 scientists is typically going to be able to fund more research and make more progress than 10,000 mom&pop operations working from the back room of a restaurant. What you lose in variety of organizations, you gain in variety of organizational capability.

That said, there's a huge difference between food science and creating videogames. Innovative and creative approaches are extremely important in entertainment. This is less like the food industry and more like the music industry, where it is very clearly to the customer's benefit to have a large number of independent labels experimenting with different approaches.

 

[Dolemite]

That's the exact same thing you could say about corporations buying up food companies - that they have the resources, talent and infrastructure in place to improve the product.

Having more and more game studios owned by one of several giant corporations is not a good thing for consumers in the long term.

Time will tell.

That's a big and I'd even reckon a smart counterpunch by Sony.

PlayStation will eventually lose access to COD by the sounds of things leaving Sony with no big ticket shooter.

Buying Bungie solves that twofold; it gives them control over a studio that can make you one along with a stupidly profitable IP in destiny to go along with it.

I really don't like where this is heading for the industry though

Xbox is not going to cut off a literal CoD money printing machine for console exclusivity for the game. That's just dumb. What will probably happen is this:

- Sony has current CoD exclusivity (they've had it for a long time) for additional in game features over xbox and PC. When that deal ends that exclusivity will shift from Sony to Xbox and Game Pass in general.
- The money they make from non Xbox income Xbox can apply it to the development dead Activision franchises.
- Bungie has a long rumored competitive PvP game in development. This was probably key in the deal as well as the Destiny franchise.

They solved their First person shooter problem, but 3.6B is a hell of a price to do it.

I don't think Destiny and CoD are competitors though, they seem like very different types of games (granted I play neither).

Wait for Bungie's competitive PvP game to be announced.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

They have a competitive PvP (unannounced) project in development as well as Destiny 2.

That’s great. It’s still one studio. And if the plan is to stay independent and make multi-platform, this a profit play, which is probably smart.

Phil Spencer mentioned it but I get the idea Sony and Microsoft are just trying to keep the likes of Amazon and Google out of the market.

 

[Dolemite]

That’s great. It’s still one studio. And if the plan is to stay independent and make multi-platform, this a profit play, which is probably smart.

Phil Spencer mentioned it but I get the idea Sony and Microsoft are just trying to keep the likes of Amazon and Google out of the market.

He doesn't have to worry about Google. They keep shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[93LEAFS]

I don't think Destiny and CoD are competitors though, they seem like very different types of games (granted I play neither).

I play neither, but after the Bethesda and Activision deals the 3rd party first person shooter pools was pretty weak. Of established franchises on consoles pretty much all that was left were Battlefield and Borderlands.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Sony going head first into Games as a service.

 

[syz]

Hopefully this doesn't result in any weird timed exclusivity stuff in Destiny again, as someone who finally built a PC. Sony's general messaging has the markings of "subscribe to our new PS+ tier to get early access" type stuff.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

What next? Nintendo buying Sega or Bandai-Namco?

 

[93LEAFS]

What next? Nintendo buying Sega or Bandai-Namco?

Nintendo still hasn't outright bought Gamefreak or Hal Laboratories. They don't seem to care about the acquisition game.