With Sony going for ips, who do you realistically think they go for?
Sony may have acquired Ballistic Moon - Rumor
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Pretty likely tv shows, new big music artists, some tv channel/music label and some gamedev studios with a previous history of creating very successful AAA IPs or GaaS/mobile games.
Probably more music labels and Indian tv channels or bollywood movie production companies.
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Ballistic Moon Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook
Information on valuation, funding, cap tables, investors, and executives for Ballistic Moon. Use the PitchBook Platform to explore the full profile.
Says here that Ballistic Moon's parent company is Sony.... I guess that adds to the credibility.
Ownership StatusBallistic Moon Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook
Information on valuation, funding, cap tables, investors, and executives for Ballistic Moon. Use the PitchBook Platform to explore the full profile.pitchbook.com
Says here that Ballistic Moon's parent company is Sony.... I guess that adds to the credibility.
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I wont call it confirmation yet since we dont know how dependable the site is though!
I have no idea if the website is reliable or not, but the reviews in this couple of sites say it's reliable:
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I have no idea if the website is reliable or not, but the reviews in this couple of sites say it's reliable:
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Yeah, looks like Colin M has had a look at it now too and confirmed the details mentioned.
I researched a bit to see how accurate Pitchbook is with the Sony acquisitions and found an important mistake:
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Novarama is a studio from my city -I have friends there- who wasn't acquired by Sony. They instead are an independent studio who developed exclusively for Sony during around a decade many Sony published games -mostly from the Invizimals series, an AR PSP game very successful in the south of Europe-, and during that period they got a 1st party treatment. Meaning, they were a 2nd party studio.
Some time later Novarama switched to mobile and PC (their most recent game is Skillsquad, a cool self published 'Diablo meets Destiny' game) and now are working on a multiplatform game. More recently, Tencent invested on them getting a big chunk of their shares but as far as I know, not fully acquiring them.
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Novarama Technology Company Profile: Acquisition & Investors | PitchBook
Information on acquisition, funding, investors, and executives for Novarama Technology. Use the PitchBook Platform to explore the full profile.
Novarama is a studio from my city -I have friends there- who wasn't acquired by Sony. They instead are an independent studio who developed exclusively for Sony during around a decade many Sony published games -mostly from the Invizimals series, an AR PSP game very successful in the south of Europe-, and during that period they got a 1st party treatment. Meaning, they were a 2nd party studio.
Some time later Novarama switched to mobile and PC (their most recent game is Skillsquad, a cool self published 'Diablo meets Destiny' game) and now are working on a multiplatform game. More recently, Tencent invested on them getting a big chunk of their shares but as far as I know, not fully acquiring them.
Novarama » Barcelona-based Novarama And Tencent Reach Investment Agreement!
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The site is 100%. It’s a tracker for venture capital investment in startups, used by investment advisors and financial institutions.
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Excellent, that's awesome so.... a horror focused studio added to the PS Studios, hope they hit the quality bar.
I am crossing my fingers for CDPR or someone like that to fill the WRPG space in the next year or two for PS 1st party and maybe continue to buy more of From or get a JRPG studio....
I researched a bit to see how accurate Pitchbook is with the Sony acquisitions and found an important mistake:
Novarama Technology Company Profile: Acquisition & Investors | PitchBook
Information on acquisition, funding, investors, and executives for Novarama Technology. Use the PitchBook Platform to explore the full profile.
Novarama is a studio from my city -I have friends there- who wasn't acquired by Sony. They instead are an independent studio who developed exclusively for Sony during around a decade many Sony published games -mostly from the Invizimals series, an AR PSP game very successful in the south of Europe-, and during that period they got a 1st party treatment. Meaning, they were a 2nd party studio.
Some time later Novarama switched to mobile and PC (their most recent game is Skillsquad, a cool self published 'Diablo meets Destiny' game) and now are working on a multiplatform game. More recently, Tencent invested on them getting a big chunk of their shares but as far as I know, not full acquiring them.
Novarama » Barcelona-based Novarama And Tencent Reach Investment Agreement!
Innovative games for mass audiences
Give it up man.
Seems like Sony got their Quantic Dream/Supermassive equivalent but for cheap.
We know whatever game they're working on must've really impressed Sony if they decided to buy them.
We know whatever game they're working on must've really impressed Sony if they decided to buy them.
I'll do whatever I want.
If you don't like the fact I posted and don't have another fact to counter it, deal with it and stop being an annoying embarassment.
A western RPG studio would be good, but CDPR would be the worst possible choice. Incompetent and dishonest are not traits we need in gaming studios, and especially not in studios Sony brings into the fold if we want a healthy PlayStation going forward.
I honestly think Sony should poach the right talent of Bethesda and CDPR and open their own RPG studio. Would take a few years, but would be worth it if they could deliver a very good RPG with actual gameplay and graphical standards.
I don't see them reaching the graphical standards of a game like Horizon Forbidden West, or even shipping a game in console on a polished state instead of being a broken bugfest. Also, in CD Projekt they have issues with their working culture etc.
As Guerrilla keeps growing and creating new teams inside it, maybe the best option hire a few key people from both studios in the areas where they may outperform Guerrilla and not hire the people from areas where Guerrilla outperforms there. Maybe in stuff related to concept art, world building or environmental storytelling narrative they could hire people from CD Projekt or Bethesda.
Edit: I went to check out people credited in Cyberpunk 2077 from this area and I see that many key people already left CD Projekt:
- Top people working on environment concept art: one of their two Senior Environment Concept Art Coordinators is now at Blizzard.
- Senior Concept Artists for environments: out of their five one is now at ILM, other is at IOI.
- Quest design directors: one of the two is now at Riot Games
- Principal writer: now at Rebel Wolves
- Second director and head of production: now at Revel Wolves
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