Sony's future and possible studio/publisher acquisitions

[Dabaus]

It’s not that Sony couldn’t buy square, they obviously can. It’s that their leadership, mainly upper management, are completely clueless. They’ve ceded Japan and lost exclusivity with partners and entire genres (hello soulsborne) that were created on their watch to chase trends culminating in the disaster in waiting DEI, Blackrock approved Concord. Bungie has been a money sink, their most prestigious single player company wasted 5 years making a multiplayer game only to cancel it, and the one studio (insomniac) that actually produces had layoffs.

Now they want to spend all the money PlayStation made for them on a failing,
Over priced movie company that Is doing everything it can NOT to sell to them. Meanwhile there were rumors from the people who worked at eidos that square sold them so Sony could buy them and they haven’t done it.

Bring back kaz hirai or someone who cares about gaming back.

 

[TigerFang]

Sony needs more Single Player studios.

they have currently about 8~ studios working on Single Player games (not counting support studios)

- Naughty Dog
- Sony Santamonica
- Insomniac
- Guerilla (Also working on Multiplayer)
- Sucker Punch
- Housemarque
- Firesprite (might also be working on VR)
- Team Asobi

Now this is an incredible studios lineup, & I have to give Sony credit for acquiring studios like Sucker Punch & Naughty dog at the perfect time.

But that being said, either some of these studios need heavy expansion which can be very difficult due to extreme development times / lack of developers / may result in layoffs or they need to acquire a few more studios with focus on Single Player stuff.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

Sony needs more Single Player studios.

they have currently about 8~ studios working on Single Player games (not counting support studios)

- Naughty Dog
- Sony Santamonica
- Insomniac
- Guerilla (Also working on Multiplayer)
- Sucker Punch
- Housemarque
- Firesprite (might also be working on VR)
- Team Asobi

Now this is an incredible studios lineup, & I have to give Sony credit for acquiring studios like Sucker Punch & Naughty dog at the perfect time.

But that being said, either some of these studios need heavy expansion which can be very difficult due to extreme development times / lack of developers / may result in layoffs or they need to acquire a few more studios with focus on Single Player stuff.

Agree that's why should hsve a look in Japan & Asia overall.

FurRyu for Japanese RPGs woth potential.
JP GAMES (Hajime Tabata) for FF like Premium Japanese RPGs
Team Ninja. This might be am expensive one, but it would be worth it in the long term.
NeoWiz the developer of Lies of P. Talented studio.

 

[TigerFang]

In DrakeStars 2024 Gaming Outlook

They say:

Top buyers will likely be Tencent, Sony, Scopely / Savvy Games, Keywords and Take-Two, while ByteDance is about to sell its gaming business and Embracer will likely divest some of its studios. We expect Savvy Games to continue deploying more out of the $38B ear-marked for gaming M&A and financings this year.

this was said in their 2023 Q4 report back in January.

The report has been spot-on about Embracer divesting studios & Take Two purchasing a studio (GearBox).

Makes me hope that Sony might have a change to pick up a Single Player game studio here & there. Though as they have said, they'll be "Selective" and making purchases that guarantee return.

 

[Nhomnhom]

As much as I hate Epic now it's obvious that Sony should establish a joint venture with them for Epic Store to become Sony's storefront on PC. Same for Unreal so that they can help it become less shit.

They were open to do it for EVs with Honda so they might as well do it for more important and pressing things.