I enjoyed vanilla Persona 5. look forward to playing Royal, and P4 Golden when they inevitably end up on Gamepass.

The one who's first party roadmap looks like this:

Meanwhile, Cows have no idea what's coming to PS5 after the cross-gen Horizon and God of War come out.

I don't understand what Cows want. Do they want us to be butthurt about a milquetoast acquisition like this, that frankly, everyone already expected them to do?

Cool story bro.....

28 gamepass games installed on my Series X, etc.....etc....

I doubt this studio would cross the $50 million dollar mark. Its very possible the primary value this studio would have to Sony is getting them in the news cycle, and giving Sony fanboys list-war ammo on twitter.

They're smaller than Undead Labs or Compulsion Games.

I mean, Playground Games has released Forza Horizon 4. which is 92 on MC. Its sequel is 4 months away, and thats all but guaranteed a 90+ metacritic score (just like their last 2 games) if the reception to their E3 showing is any indication. And if that same positive response is an indication, I am not worried at all about Fable.

Every game they've made has a higher metacritic score than the last, and there's zero indication of that stairstep evolution slowing down. Microsoft expanded them to a second studio, and exploded the headcount from 115 to more than 314, nearly trippling them in size since acquisition. And attracted creative leadership from the likes of Rockstar, etc.....

They've done similar expansion and mass hiring sprees with all the other studios they've acquired. They moved InXile into a lavish new studio, and brought in Senior Creative Directors from other AAA studios, like the Lead Combat Designer on God of War 2018. Cows should like that one.

I am sure a 68 headcount outsourcing studio, that has never produced an original project, only 3D Zbrush rotoscopes of already developed games, offsets Microsofts acquisition of Playground Games, Obsidian, InXile, Double Fine, Arkane, Machine Games, Id Software, or Bethesda.

Lems mad.

Golf clap for Sony getting them a lil' cute acquisition tho. About the size of compulsion, and smaller than Undead Labs.

I did have a small chuckle checking twitter though. Some people seem anxious for Sony to "hurry up" and finish BluePoint, before Microsoft "swoops in" and snatches them up out from under them. Hurry!! Hurry!! 🤣

For anyone follows the Acquisitions megathread on XboxEra over the past year, this is a laugh. I assure you, the number and pedigree of Studios that Microsoft has been credibly linked to, neither Bluepoint nor Housemarque crack the top 15 list of acquisitions on Microsofts radar.

We're over here having open air speculation about Bungie, Sega, WB Games, Asobo, IO Interactive, Turtle Rock, Avalanche, Crytek, Rocksteady, Netherrealm, Platinum Games, etc.....

Thank god Sony finally has some good news for PS fans to be happy about. It was getting bad out here watching the Xbox/Bethesda/GamePass Copium over the last few months. Now you guys can finally stop harassing anyone on twitter who gives positive attention to Xbox.

Congratulations Cows. 😎

I wonder where the anti-astroturf defense force stands on prominent members of the gaming press like Geoff Keighley (who runs the The Game Awards) regularly colluding with Hideo Kojima, shilling his ARGs, and pretty much actively participating in the marketing cycles for his games, that will almost certainly then get nominated for said awards.

Oh, those are Playstation exclusives so cows dont care? They're currently pretending they've ever played a Silent Hill game before, and giddy about Abandoned? Got it.