Sony Set To Acquire More Studios After Bungie

After analyzing Sony's options based on Ryan's comments, it still seems more appropriate for them to look at Konami. They're on the low right now, could be had fairly cheap, and they have a lot of service technology that connects their mobile games with their main titles especially with that one soccer franchise run. And, bonus, if they get Konami, they can likely convince Kojima to join up, too. There was a lot of interesting tech going on in those MGS games.

Bamco would be an even bigger get for that purpose, but...well, it's a big get. Likely too expensive. People talk Square, but I don't think they really have any special tech under their belt, either. Their engines were so bad they had to ditch them for Unreal, they're terribly inefficient devs, and FF14...well, worth having just for the MMORPG tech, I guess, but still pretty pricey.

PLEASE M$, don't let Sony buy Sega!

only one i would actually care about is from software which i can see happening honestly. but like i said in previous articles if they keep buying then so will microsoft and well microsoft have deeper pockets so its a war sony cant win.

This arms race is not good for the consumers, HOWEVER...I wish Sony would free Konami's IPs since Konami doesn't care about them anymore.

pretty sure this is all for the good of the consumers

More pee-wee aquisitions coming to Sony.......stay tuned! hahaha.

This story makes out that MS just share all IP's of their acquisition's or at very least keep the already established biggies like COD there FOR THE TIME BEING. It then makes Sony out to be the evil hoarder of exclusives, when recent trends have dictated the opposite.

Truth is, fanboysim aside, Sony need to keep up with MS in the acquisitions front, or MS, Apple, Google, Amazon or TenCent will swallow them & Nintendo up in the next 10-12yrs. At least if they buy devs like this, (I'd love them to snap up Respawn next for my gaming tastes..lol. If they can get them, awesome, if they can't, buy Lightbox Interactive (buy both actually) & give us Starhawk or warhawk 2, reform Socom, Motorstorm & Wipeout teams, then a few more superb devs, as well as a Ubisoft to gain leverage over MS to either keep the big multiplats that way....this allows a game by game swap system at least. Sony having no leverage when MS owns EA, Activision, Ubisoft, ZeniMax, TenCent, Sabre Int., means they are F%$ked, & will have to swap GOW for yearly spewed out COD garbage...lol, Screw that.

Buy everything you can afford Sony, then buy sh!t you can't afford, then buy more. Just do it smaller & smarter than the big giants & keep your studios happy & with that hopefully productive AF. They will need to be. MS is buying up everything BIG & in years to come, they will throw everything at Sony to tighten the noose & gain control of market share on ALL fronts.

Smarter buys of highly productive studios like Insomniac are brilliant fits for Sony.

Sony should hit up Marvel for license to use The Punisher for future games, & BAM, give Bungie the reigns for a Punisher FPS.... bit of help from Guerilla, Insomniac, etc for gameplay related development & team members from ND, SP, SSMS,etc, could help & give advice on story, etc. Either that, or give ND The Punisher & Bungie can build Sony some constant money spinners that build on Destiny 2's vision, making a bigger, better, more focused & less convoluted game world to navigate.

Why can't Microsoft come up with some original games instead of buying up all the studios that should be making multiplatform games. Now Sony are starting to do the same damn thing. It's sickening and frustrating to see. Why not try and come up with original IPs and ideas instead of this crap. The consumer is the one who loses out with this kind of bs. All Bungie have made in the past few years is Destiny. I played the first one and the expansions and got bored of it. There's no proper story to it and I didn't care about any of the characters. With Destiny 2 you couldn't even play through the story. I read about it. They basically made a campaign at the release of the game and then deleted it so if you didn't play the game at release you could never experience it. So when I read that I decided screw that bs I'm done with Destiny. So as far as I'm concerned buying Bungie was a monumental waste of money. Bungie have done nothing any good since the Halo games. I lost all faith in them after Destiny. Sony and Microsoft need to come up with original IPs and games and stop with this crap. This buying up companies is anti competitive, useless, frustrating and sickening for gamers. Give it up. People want games not companies.

Keep buying sony keep buying and making more exclusives. Otherwise there will be no good game remaining out there to play!

I’m just waiting for all of this to backfire and we have another video game crash like we had in the 80’s. Developer monopopy, micro transactions, paid DLC’s and NFT’s are going to bring it all to ruin. Question is, once the smoke clears, which company will rise from the ashes and revitalize it?

Sony will continue to buy small acquisitions. They dont have the capital to buy large. They lost money over the past couple years. They are still stuck in the 90s-2000's mindset.

Thinking that you have to own a game. The digital stream to play like gamepass is clearly the new way to go. Yeah, yeah.... I know the Sony fans will come out the woodwork. However, I used to be pro-Sony. Then they just got stagnant.

Their network is unstable, and download times for games is abysmal. It takes me almost an hour and a half to download a 100 gig game on a 600 mb/s connection. When, I switched to Xbox, it takes me 15 mins. Because, I can never get over 20 mb/s on the download on PS network bandwidth limitations. No matter what i do to change the DNS settings etc.

Not to mention their PS network is always having issues. Not stating that Xbox is perfect. But, they have far less imperfections to their competition.

I am a person who goes to what works and gives me the best "bang for my buck". Microsoft figured it out this round. Sony, had it last round. This is what is great about capitalism, it creates competition. Sony needs to get someone creative at their helm. This guy is a numbers guy, and he is causing their playstation division to dive. It is stagnant and it is showing.

Sure, you got a new machine, but so does your competition. But, they have a leader who loves games and the industry. Your guy doesnt. He just wants the bottom dollar......money.

This is getting silly though I don't think Sony should go buying studios to complete against Microsoft.

There better be some traditional gaming IPs in there.

Interesting

Was a stonewall MS studio in the 360 ERA, just feels odd

I look at it this way... the more these Console devs scoop up, the more the gamers will eventually turn against it. So it'll go back to indie game devs that get the loyal following... and the game is available on multiple platforms and consoles. It's not to say that good games will not be produced by studios owned by MS or Sony... but if you pit the two sides against each other, both will lose out eventually.

this is gonna get silly now. i can see sony buying someone like square enix or capcom which then in response MS will likely go out and buy EA or take two. if i was sony i would call a truce because a bidding war is something you dont want with microsoft.

This console race just heated up... a lot!

Wonder what other studios Sony has in mind. I imagine they would tend to have a higher Japanese presence than Microsoft.

Square, Konami, Capcom, FROM... I could see some of these studios being scooped up under the Sony umbrella (especially FROM.).

Guess we will see what the coming months have in store in the way of acquisition news. All I know is that this console generation just became an absolute bloodbath.

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