Sony purchase Bungie

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Link

Bungie has limitless potential to unite friends around the world.

We have found a partner in PlayStation that shares our dream and is committed to accelerating our creative vision of building generation-spanning entertainment.

Our journey begins today.
https://bung.ie/3o9YtZZ

inb4 they were forced to due to the MS/Blizzard sale.

 

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Only cost them $3.6 Billion.

 

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Still I guess Sony had to move...MS might be trying to snipe anything they can get their hands on.

You think Sony and Bungie did this deal within 2 weeks of the Blizzard and Microsoft announcement?

 

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Just speculation, but I've seen chat online about how it's not Destiny that Sony wants, but rather Bungie's experience with MP and GaaS. It'd explain why they're not making future Destiny content PS exclusive - they want Bungie to build multiplayer and live service versions of some existing and new franchises.

It's not really speculation is it? You think Sony paid 3.6b for Bungie only to never release anything again? There's a big new IP in the works that we know little about. They don't have a big back catalogue but they have a wealth of experience in the industry.

 

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What are you on about? Who said anything about them never releasing anything again?

It’s obviously not 3.6b for them to just continue with Destiny

TBF it might have been a response to the Bethseda acquisition and the Blizzard Announcement could have accelerated the time line.

This will have taken months, if it was a response to Blizzard is this even an adequate response?

 

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I'm assuming you mean Bethseda (when looking at my previous post). The answer is nobody knows; We will have to see how the next 10 years plays out. Currently we don't know why they bought bungie and how it impacts Sony's future game development.

Ah yeah you said Bethesda, my mistake. Agree, we won't know until then.

huh?? Isn't that essentially what Random guy was saying??

A few posts back they said there's speculation about it, to which I said it's hardly speculation. We've been going in the same circle since

Sony would have known about MSFT courting Activision/Blizzard for some time (who would have been in discussion for at least 4-5 months I reckon). They would have lined up some counter plays, like this.

It's possible they got inside information about the deal potentially going on, deals like this are also discussed more often than we know, a lot of these discussions never lead anywhere.

 

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If you read the whole post you'd have seen the speculation was specifically about creating multiplayer versions of Sony's existing IPs, but you chose to ignore that.

I read it Random Guy.

Just speculation, but I've seen chat online about how it's not Destiny that Sony wants, but rather Bungie's experience with MP and GaaS. It'd explain why they're not making future Destiny content PS exclusive - they want Bungie to build multiplayer and live service versions of some existing and new franchises.

Multiplayer games set in the worlds of Ghost of Tsushima (like a greatly expanded Legends mode), Horizon, The Last of Us... There were also job postings months ago of Insomniac looking for people with multiplayer experience.

Interesting thoughts, but only time will tell.

I'll repeat the same thing I said. It obviously isn't speculation that Sony spent 3.6 billion just for Destiny and purchased them for the experience they have in the gaming industry. Bungie only have 1 other big new IP being worked on and with 900+ employees you bet they'll work on other projects in the future.

If you want to tell me it's speculation about GaaS then sure lmao.

Shall we go for round 4?

 

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Well seeing as there's absolutely no point, no. We shan't.

Have a good night @Random Guy Esq.

 

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I didn't mean to come across as taking sides, but to be fair, I still can't see the distinction you're trying to make. It sounds like you're both arguing the same point

Pretty much yeah, all sorted now.