Rumor: PlayStation Might Have More Acquisitions to Announce - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 September 2021 / 5,086 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has been busy in 2021 with the acquisition of five studios. This includes Demon's Souls remake developer Bluepoint Games, Returnal developer Housemarque, The Playroom developer Firesprite, Fabrik, who will be integrated into Firesprite, and Nixxes, who is known for porting games to PC.
Insider Shinobi602 on ResetEra teased with a GIF of Frodo from The Lord of the Rings saying, "There's room for a little more." This was posted in the official PlayStation Studios thread and in response to someone posting a link to the official list of PlayStation Studios.
Another insider Matt, who previously leaked Xbox Game Studios acquisitions replied to Shinobi602 by saying, "Nothing can stop the consolidation train."
It is possible the two insiders are teasing Sony has already acquired another studio, but hasn't officially announced it yet, or is in talks with studios to acquire them.
This is just speculation and should be treated as a rumor.
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To be honest, I don't want either of the big 3 to acquire devs like Sega, Square, Capcom, Rockstar, etc. Just to ensure that games from those respective devs can stay multiplat. Acquiring studios like Playground and Bluepoint doesn't hurt anyone because they were only developing for a particular platform to begin with.
Konami and other that have almost left gaming space, or buying their IPs would be the most that would be acceptable. Bethesda was already over what should have been done.
Rockstar is part of Take Two and no way they're selling their money printer.
if it did happen share holders go home wealthy!
No need to make rumor, Sony said their strategy would involve acquiring studios they had partnership so they are always looking for new studios to buy.
Microsoft had a "working partnership" with Bethesda for decades before they purchased them... Starting with Morrowind on the OG Xbox.
Yet people were against that purchase.
Elder Scrolls was primarily a PC title to start with... A Microsoft platform.
Then with the OG Xbox, ports of that franchise became possible (Morrowind) to console for the first time... And that is genuinely where Bethesda's relationship started in the console space... With Microsoft.
Bethesda always had closer relationship with Xbox than Playstation... And that translated over to their game releases.
I.E. Skyrim looked and ran better on Xbox 360 than Playstation 3.
I just find it absolutely bewildering that individuals are happy to shift the goal post and make new excuses to forgive one company, whilst demonizing another... Brand loyalty is nonsensical.
PC isn`t a Microsoft platform sorry, you are pushing it to much to force your point.
It is quite different comparing a small developer to a very giant multi segment publisher. Even more when the working relationship of MS with Bethesda was nowhere the level of basically almost always working as a second party.
......and then Tencent shows up :)
Hmm I can’t really think of other studios Sony has been working with that they would purchase.
My first thought is Aspyr since they’re working on the KOTOR Remake and Sony appears to be publishing it. Despite it only being timed exclusivity.
I did have that thought as well, but Square has a net worth of almost $7 billion, and I imagine Sony would have to pay quite a bit more to convince Square to sell.
Sony could definitely do it, but that be quite a dent in their savings that I don’t really see Sony Corp biting on.
really square is more expensive than bethesda?
Aspyr is a subsidiary of Embracer Group. They acquired Aspyr this year so I doubt that they want to sell the studio that early. Plus, I think that this rumor started before the Bluepoint acquisition announcement, so they could refer to BP. Otherwise, the only studio I can think of right now would be Lucid Games. They developed Destruction AllStars and are rumored to be working in a Twisted Metal game.
There are other japanese studios they colab a lot like From Software. There is Sanzaru if I'm not wrong and a few others. But you are kind of right, there isn't any bell sounding as a proeminent incoming purchase at the moment.
From soft is owned by kadokawa and Sony owns 1.9 % of them in a deal similar to the one they made with Epic Games but it was more in support of their recent anime streaming acquisitions.
From Software alone is near impossible, but the entire Kadokawa is 100% possible for Sony.
I can see Sony making a move on Kadokawa, it is a good fit for Sony since Anime is becoming their "fourth pillar in Entertainment aftrer Games, Music and Movies."
For the right price, Kadokawa is a must have for Sony and Playstation.
Lucid Games is apparently making a new Twisted Metal, so they could be a natural option.
They should get Ember Lab, Konami IP’s or Square Enix
