| AnarchyWest said: if anything I think Sony will be expanding their First Party development studios by the end of this gen |
They usually do that at the end of each generation. Throughout the generation, they form second party contacts and see what studios are good and whatnot throughout the gen, then they often buy said studios at the end of the generation, after they have also built up a nice cash reserve from the previous gen. They formed Team ICO and bought Psygonosis (now Sony Liverpool) and Naughty Dog at the end of the ps1 gen, and they bought Zipper Interactive, Geurrilla Games, and Evolution Studios at the end of last gen. I expect Media Molcule to get picked up in a couple of years (unless they decide to go the route of Insomniac) and maybe 1-2 other studios, possibly ones we don't even know they're working with at the moment, much like how nobody had ever heard of Media Molecule before March of 2007.
