Choose one studio to add to PlayStation first party

[stebin alex]

Anyone except Sega (Atlus), Capcom and Square Enix

Even under SIE PlayStation, I think all these Studios will stay neutral, kind of like Bungie.
Personally, I think the company SIE will try to fix is probably is Square Enix and try to fix some of the duds they have been having.

 

[stebin alex]

Well, that's why - and also because their workforce is north of three thousand people.

I still think this is a terrible decision if it happens, 3000 people is too much for SONY to take on, without any Significant IP, or any big games.
Virtuous does a lot of co-development (which is great) and it can help Sony get exclusive help on all their First party game creation, and it can expand some of the game production pipelines. But this is too much of a risk.
If Sony wanted co development, there are so many support studios that want to work with PlayStation studios, especially Keyword company has so many support studios that work with a Sony studios, like Climax studio with Housemarque, and Guerilla with Studio Gobo.

 

[Elder Legend]

I don't think Kojima will be joining Sony. Sony and Google stadia declined his cloud based horror game idea that he wanted and Microsoft was the only who allowed it. It's called Overdose.

 

[AshHunter216]

I don't think Kojima will be joining Sony. Sony and Google stadia declined his cloud based horror game idea that he wanted and Microsoft was the only who allowed it. It's called Overdose.

I could see him being one that really values independence. He's got Overdose going for Microsoft and Death Stranding 2 for Playstation.

 

[Bryank75]

Even under SIE PlayStation, I think all these Studios will stay neutral, kind of like Bungie.
Personally, I think the company SIE will try to fix is probably is Square Enix and try to fix some of the duds they have been having.

I agree with that... they need some oversight and advice on their western strategy and where to put resources.

I actually think Square and CDPR would bring a lot to Sony overall, balancing East and West expansion and adding to cross-media popularity.

 

[stebin alex]

I agree with that... they need some oversight and advice on their western strategy and where to put resources.

I actually think Square and CDPR would bring a lot to Sony overall, balancing East and West expansion and adding to cross-media popularity.

Ya absolutely, Square Enix has been a very weird company in the last 2 years, they released some amazing games in FF14 and my favourite FF7 Remake. But because of the success of FF14 and live service, they just signed off some duds as well, like Babylon Falls, Stranger of Paradise and now Forspoken.

Mind you, Forspoken is a decent game (from what my close friends are telling me). I think SIE can come in and help them, gives them the right level of support like XDEV, hire better people to get the company to work well.
I still think the Switch Games will still continue as they keep making them money with little amount of effort.

Even for CDPR, I don't think SIE will do many changes here, SIE has such a high tolerance for quality, and so nothing like Cyberpunk situation won't happen again, and I think they will support them on internal expansion, they have multiple games on the oven.
- remakes of Old Witcher games
- Witcher 4
- Cyberpunk expansions.

 

[AshHunter216]

Ya absolutely, Square Enix has been a very weird company in the last 2 years, they released some amazing games in FF14 and my favourite FF7 Remake. But because of the success of FF14 and live service, they just signed off some duds as well, like Babylon Falls, Stranger of Paradise and now Forspoken.

Mind you, Forspoken is a decent game (from what my close friends are telling me). I think SIE can come in and help them, gives them the right level of support like XDEV, hire better people to get the company to work well.
I still think the Switch Games will still continue as they keep making them money with little amount of effort.

Even for CDPR, I don't think SIE will do many changes here, SIE has such a high tolerance for quality, and so nothing like Cyberpunk situation won't happen again, and I think they will support them on internal expansion, they have multiple games on the oven.
- remakes of Old Witcher games
- Witcher 4
- Cyberpunk expansions.

Sony definitely need some first party rpgs, whether they're western-style or something more Japanese in nature.

 

[KiryuRealty]

Ya absolutely, Square Enix has been a very weird company in the last 2 years, they released some amazing games in FF14 and my favourite FF7 Remake. But because of the success of FF14 and live service, they just signed off some duds as well, like Babylon Falls, Stranger of Paradise and now Forspoken.

Mind you, Forspoken is a decent game (from what my close friends are telling me). I think SIE can come in and help them, gives them the right level of support like XDEV, hire better people to get the company to work well.
I still think the Switch Games will still continue as they keep making them money with little amount of effort.

Even for CDPR, I don't think SIE will do many changes here, SIE has such a high tolerance for quality, and so nothing like Cyberpunk situation won't happen again, and I think they will support them on internal expansion, they have multiple games on the oven.
- remakes of Old Witcher games
- Witcher 4
- Cyberpunk expansions.

I don’t think SIE would want CDPR. They’d basically have to gut the management structure completely due to incompetence.

Also, there’s no guarantees that the rights to The Witcher and Cyberpunk are transferable, so it’s possible that they’d buy the studio and not be able to make sequels to, or re-releases of, their existing hits, since they aren’t IP that CDPR owns.

 

[AshHunter216]

I don’t think SIE would want CDPR. They’d basically have to gut the management structure completely due to incompetence.

Also, there’s no guarantees that the rights to The Witcher and Cyberpunk are transferable, so it’s possible that they’d buy the studio and not be able to make sequels to, or re-releases of, their existing hits, since they aren’t IP that CDPR owns.

They would still get a large team that could make RPGs though, which is what they need. CDPR may be mad at Sony for the time they took Cyberpunk off of the PS Store though.

 

[stebin alex]

The Witcher and Cyberpunk licences belong to the original licence holder, and it's not CDPR, so yes there is that risk, I believe CDPR has access to use it to make games and some involvement.
But yes, getting a studio who is able to make a great WRPG is a fantastic business.

 

[KiryuRealty]

The Witcher and Cyberpunk licences belong to the original licence holder, and it's not CDPR, so yes there is that risk, I believe CDPR has access to use it to make games and some involvement.
But yes, getting a studio who is able to make a great WRPG is a fantastic business.

CDPR doesn’t make great games. They make janky shit that people play for the writing, which the hardest parts of, world-building and core character creation, were already done for them.

Between that and their disastrous rep the last few years, they aren’t a company worth buying.

 

[Elder Legend]

They would still get a large team that could make RPGs though, which is what they need. CDPR may be mad at Sony for the time they took Cyberpunk off of the PS Store though.

CD Projekt Red makes no sense for Sony. Their type of RPGs just don't fit the Sony style. Plus, Witcher snd Cyberpunk were always marketed on the Xbox. It makes way more sense for Microsoft to acquire them, they fit the Xbox mold. They have more history with them. Plus Cyberpunk being taken off PSN doesn't bode well either.

I don't think Sony really needs a Western RPG. Closest thing they have is Guerilla Games with Horizon Forbidden West. Its not super deep RPG, but its the closeet with those types of elements. If they acquire From Software and the Japanese side of Square Enix that will the best case scenario and more than enough. And I really hope they do.

Or if they really want to shock the world - acquire Level 5 and go make Dark Cloud 3 for PS6, but that will never happen. Not even in my wildest dreams :/

 

[AshHunter216]

CD Projekt Red makes no sense for Sony. Their type of RPGs just don't fit the Sony style. Plus, Witcher snd Cyberpunk were always marketed on the Xbox. It makes way more sense for Microsoft to acquire them, they fit the Xbox mold. They have more history with them. Plus Cyberpunk being taken off PSN doesn't bode well either.

I don't think Sony really needs a Western RPG. Closest thing they have is Guerilla Games with Horizon Forbidden West. Its not super deep RPG, but its the closeet with those types of elements. If they acquire From Software and the Japanese side of Square Enix that will the best case scenario and more than enough. And I really hope they do.

Or if they really want to shock the world - acquire Level 5 and go make Dark Cloud 3 for PS6, but that will never happen. Not even in my wildest dreams :/

Fromsoft would be a huge get and would definitely scratch the RPG itch. Square would as well.

Koei Tecmo definitely proved they could scratch the action-rpg itch with things like NIOH as well.

 

[Elder Legend]

Fromsoft would be a huge get and would definitely scratch the RPG itch. Square would as well.

Koei Tecmo definitely proved they could scratch the action-rpg itch with things like NIOH as well.

Was the Wo Long demo on PSN or Xbox? Both yes?

 

[AshHunter216]

Was the Wo Long demo on PSN or Xbox? Both yes?

I think both. Sony also has Rise of the Ronin coming from them as well.

 

[Gediminas]

Fromsoft would be a huge get and would definitely scratch the RPG itch. Square would as well.

Koei Tecmo definitely proved they could scratch the action-rpg itch with things like NIOH as well.

Team Ninja.
Wo Long beta was on PS5 for sure. after they release Wo Long, next is Rise of the Ronin exclusive PS5.

Wo Long is day 1 for me. NioH was top tier games.

 

[Yurinka]

Sony definitely need some first party rpgs, whether they're western-style or something more Japanese in nature.

PlayStation already is the platform with more rpgs -both multiplatform and exclusive- and where they sell more. They don't need more and doesn't matter if they are 1st party or exclusive.

Maybe it would be good for them to secure SE against potential acquisitions from MS or Nintendo in case they attempted to acquire Square Enix before, which doesn't seem likely at least for the medium term.

But in any case, RPGs mean a tiny portion of the console market, and inside the RPG genre the only somewhat relevant company in sales is Square Enix. And Sony is the clear market leader and is in a clear growth path, so allowing Nintendo or MS buy Square Enix wouldn't change basically anything in the market. And the other companies like CD Projekt or Sega even less.

 

[Yossarian]

As long as they stay independent, I'm cool with that, but if the alternative is Microsoft getting them, I'd rather Sony have them.

I actually agree. I just want Atlus games to keep coming on Switch. I don't care as much about square and capcom. I think Microshit would ruin Atlus games

 

[Yossarian]

Even under SIE PlayStation, I think all these Studios will stay neutral, kind of like Bungie.
Personally, I think the company SIE will try to fix is probably is Square Enix and try to fix some of the duds they have been having.

Fine, as long as they keep releasing on switch. It's true, I don't see why they would cut off that source of revenue anyway