Next week is a quarterly report, they usually have some announcements during those weeks. I wonder if to offset f the cma approving sony has a larger acquisition lined up to blunt the bad news?
PlayStation Has Acquired Firewalk Studios
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Sony is also publishing games from Kojima Productions, Ballistic Moon (ex-Supermassive), Team Ninja or Shift Up, to name some of them.
I think this Firewalk acquisition is their pre-fiscal report gaming related acquisition news. They may have budget to make some other smaller scale acquisition during this fiscal year, but unless they increase the related budget they won't have enough money there for a big publisher acquisition.
So I think it isn't because of regulators, I think Sony simply doesn't plan to react to the Zenimax and ABK acquisitions. At least not yet.
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Firesprite worked on Horizon Call of the Mountain. Firewalk is working on a Triple A multiplayer game,
I think you guys are well thinking too much.
Sony needs to make public any aquisition... it just happened that the deal was closed so they are required announced it in XX time (I don't know how much time you have to do that).
I don't believe Sony is holding aquisitions due the AB & MS deal... it just business talk for aquisitions takes several months or even years.
Sony needs to make public any aquisition... it just happened that the deal was closed so they are required announced it in XX time (I don't know how much time you have to do that).
I don't believe Sony is holding aquisitions due the AB & MS deal... it just business talk for aquisitions takes several months or even years.
That means nothing. When Microsoft started The Initiative all the xbots were saying Ex-Insomniac and ex-Naughty Dogs devs were going to do a big cinematic AAAA.Ex-Bungie and Respawn... you can't go wrong with that
Plus you can reintegrate on Bungie too.
Where are they now? Making a Perfect Dark remake with the Tomb Raider studio.
You need to buy big IPs too when your direct competitor is buying all of them.
But they are already working in new AAA multiplayer first person shooter to Sony.
And what is the issue with ex-ND working in a Perfect Dark a la Tomb Raider? It is basically their expertise.
There's a difference between how Microsoft manages talent and how Sony manages talent.
Also, any major response to the ABK deal from Sony won't happen immediately, as big buyouts take months and even years.
And most of the ex-Sony people left the studio!
The difference is im assuming is that sony at least has a tangible product they’ve seen from these studios.
Comparing how SIE operates and runs its studios to Microsoft is futile
Capcom need to be secured. The least they should do is invest in it to prevent Microsoft acquisition.
Honesty, this recent RE4 remake was incredible in both design and technology. Capcom is back to their former late 90s - early 2000s glory.
Firesprite are Liverpool Studio reborn aka Psygnosis so they should just change back to one of their old names
You know Capcom needs to be willing to sell. Microsoft can’t force a company to sell them. This would be otherwise a hostile takeover. No one is going to acquire Capcom.
Looks like the ABK deal is all but confirmed now.
Sony have now decided to announce all the studios they have acquired during this period which they kept under wraps.
Won’t be surprised if theres a flurry of announcements.
If Firewalk has been acquired then surely Deviation games has also been acquired.
Let’s hope Ember Lab is also announced.
Sony have now decided to announce all the studios they have acquired during this period which they kept under wraps.
Won’t be surprised if theres a flurry of announcements.
If Firewalk has been acquired then surely Deviation games has also been acquired.
Let’s hope Ember Lab is also announced.
Sony is doing what they need to
Investing in a GAAS arm of the company while not pushing their bread and butter single player developers into it.
Big difference from the likes of WB for example getting massive backlash from gamers because the devs we know for their premium SP experience are producing GAAS
Investing in a GAAS arm of the company while not pushing their bread and butter single player developers into it.
Big difference from the likes of WB for example getting massive backlash from gamers because the devs we know for their premium SP experience are producing GAAS
well, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, and Insomniac are all making live multiplayer games. Sucker Punch are probably as well by building on what they made with Ghost Legends into a full standalone game
obviously they're all still making singleplayer games too so its fine, but they are doing both
