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PlayStation Studios Head Says Sony Isn’t Taking Devs off Market with Acquisitions
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(Computer Role Playing Game) Role playing on the computer, typically in a fantasy environment, although some take place in a medieval setting. A major characteristic of CRPGs is the user's ability to move freely throughout the venue.
In the 1970s, Dungeons was the first CRPG, modeled after the table top Dungeons and Dragons. Such games were played as text only on a mainframe or Unix machine, although the PLATO system offered some graphical alternatives. Today's CRPGs exploit the high-speed graphics capabilities of modern computers to the fullest. See MMORPG.
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So if im understanding correctly, CRPG is basically a Western RPG with real time combat and free roaming (ala The Witcher 3) as opposed to a turn based RPG?
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Pixar and Marvel added something very different to what Disney already had until then, had many IPs and milked them a lot.
Bungie is a very different case, than Marvel or Pixar. It's another case of AAA studio bought by Sony as they did many times before, and in their case only have a single IP until now so there's not much to milk.
It doesn’t have to have real time combat. Some are turn based (divinity original sin series, wasteland, shadowrun), some are real-time with pause (Pillars of Eternity), and some are a combination of both or either and use heavy RNG similar to table top games, like Pathfinder.
A lot of them are isometric also. Its where the modern big WRPG console games spawned from like Mass effect, elder scrolls, fallout, and witcher. The games are mostly about player-choice, playing how you want, and branching narratives, because they are mimicking table top rules.
A CRPG could also very well just be one of those latter series I mentioned as long as they don’t get ported to console
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Pixar and Marvel added something very different to what Disney already had until then, had many IPs and milked them a lot.
Bungie is a very different case, than Marvel or Pixar. It's another case of AAA studio bought by Sony as they did many times before, and in their case only have a single IP until now so there's not much to milk.
Its more like Bungie thats gonna be milking SIE
I’m aware, but its bungie who are going to be playing in the Sony coffers, there’s not much for sony to ‘milk’ from bungie other than it’s talent and expertise.
It's an RPG videogame. The term is outdated, used many decades ago to differentiate the pen and paper/tabletop RPGs from the RPG videogames.
They were companies they bought which continued to act and release independently under their own label and also brought alot of technology and techniques which helped Disney from PixarHow PlayStation Studios Malaysia is Playing a Growing Role in Sony's Most Important Franchises - IGN
Founded in 2020, PlayStation Malaysia is Sony's newest studio, but its role in the PlayStation ecosystem has largely been a mystery... until now.
Pixar and Marvel added something very different to what Disney already had until then, had many IPs and milked them a lot.
Bungie is a very different case, than Marvel or Pixar. It's another case of AAA studio bought by Sony as they did many times before, and in their case only have a single IP until now so there's not much to milk.
That's the same thing Bungie will be doing
Billions might be a reach, i think it generates about maybe half a billion a year if that. Destiny making a billion puts them on the level of GTA Online and CoD, which they aren’t near as of now.
Maybe once they get their mobile game out and continue to expand it might get there. Its a harder proposition with the way Destiny is set up for newcomers.
Don't see how it's a reach. They have the best selling new IP of last gen, and since free 2 play have added considerably to the userbase. Plus expansions that do $1 million plus each year
Destiny is easily a multi billion dollar franchise. Even by your calculation of $500m a year they'd be multi billion in 4 years
They have expenses though, thats not profit thats revenue that the game generates
Sony is buying Destiny maker Bungie for $3.6 billion. Here's what it gets
The PlayStation portfolio is poised to get a little bigger.
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It was estimated Destiny generates about 200m in revenue per year when sony bought them
Who said anything about profit? Or anything about per year?They have expenses though, thats not profit thats revenue that the game generates
Sony is buying Destiny maker Bungie for $3.6 billion. Here's what it gets
The PlayStation portfolio is poised to get a little bigger.
It was estimated Destiny generates about 200m in revenue per year when sony bought them
I dont understand where you are getting the idea that bungie have billions of dollars in the bank??
I dont get how hard it is to comprehend the 2nd best selling FPS franchise of last gen has made over a billion.
Nobody said anything about that sitting in the bank, that goes back into development, publishing partners etc. And there is no way to know what their profit margins are because that info isn't released. What we can do is make assumptions about how much it has made relative to other popular games of a similar status in popularity
Bungies purchase value is a reflection of the value of the Destiny IP
Sony usually get their developers to release games. So no they are not taking these devs out of anything, same when Nintendo buys or build a studio.
MS on the other hand, they don't seem to place their developers in an environment where they make good games, or even games at all sometimes. It kind of hurt to think about it, imagine what the forums/gaming media will be if one day they make a really great game, given how nuts they went for Halo Infinite.
MS on the other hand, they don't seem to place their developers in an environment where they make good games, or even games at all sometimes. It kind of hurt to think about it, imagine what the forums/gaming media will be if one day they make a really great game, given how nuts they went for Halo Infinite.
Buy publisher, buy developer, buy IP, buy game exclusivity/co-fund/co-develop on a game to game basis (ex: SF4)... do something more than timed exclusive bullshit with 3rd party's games/dlc.
Rumor and innuendo is we have BB2, CastleVania, MGS, SH etc comming... When? Feel like I've been reading that shit since mid PS4 gen, easily.