PlayStation Studios Website Banner Adds Death Stranding - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 April 2022 / 5,106 Views
The banner for the official PlayStation Studios website has been updated by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
The banner saw Concrete Genie replaced with Kojima's Death Stranding, as well as the addition of Demon's Souls and updating the Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, and MLB The Show images, according to ResetEra user Toumari who spotted the new banner.
The addition of Death Stranding has lead to speculation that Sony has acquired Kojima Productions. This is just speculation as Sony Interactive Entertainment did publish the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 versions of the game, as well as help fund the game.
View the updated banner below:
Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan previously stated PlayStation will continue to grow its first-party lineup in two ways - organically and through acquisitions.
"We're in a really good place with PlayStation Studios and have been for the past few years," said Ryan at the time. "The critical success and the commercial success of the games that they've been making… that has given us permission to invest heavily in content creation."
He added, "We’re growing our studios organically and we’re growing through acquisition. We acquired five studios during the course of 2021, we’re in discussions with Bungie and we have more planned. This is getting us into a virtuous cycle where success begets success."
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Doesn't Sony own the Death Stranding IP? I think it's the same deal with Demon's Souls. FromSoftware made the original game as well as Bloodborne, but with Sony owning the IPs, they can do whatever they want with those games and have any studio within PlayStation Studios to work on a new game/remaster. In Demon's Souls case, Bluepoint.
I thought so too, but, on the PC version, 505 Games is the publisher. I felt Sony would have published on PC too, like their other games.
IIRC, Sony didn’t have the publishing rights to publish Death Stranding on PC, only on PS systems
The Demon’s Souls shown in the banner is the remake made by Bluepoint though. And the first time we saw Demon’s Souls on the banner was from a PS Japan’s tweet welcoming Bluepoint to Sony’s first-party portfolio. Sony owns many IPs that aren’t shown here, like Sackboy A Big Adventure and Destruction AllStars as examples of new games. So we can’t assume that the banner is about their latest games.
Thus, some people believe that KP might be acquired by Sony. But it can also be that Death Stranding represents XDEV (first-party support studio) in that banner.
Where is everyone getting xdev? xdev specifically works with european indie studios. Their involvement was never listed with death stranding, not even their own website or accounts.
I haven’t searched DS’s credits, but their new office has a wallpaper that includes Death Stranding among other games they’ve worked on, like Sackboy, Returnal and Until Dawn. It also seems that XDEV has expanded to become a global support studio based on job listings of some months/years ago, so they may have eventually worked a bit with Kojima Productions on the Director’s Cut version.
Such a great game.
