Rumor : Sony to acquire Quantic Dreams

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Rainbird said:

Munkeh111 said:

Good move by Sony, after Insomniac, they should probably sure up some of their relations with studios.

As with many of these things, it probably makes more financial sense for them to be part of one company

Uhm, what? Insomniac are creating both a new Ratchet & Clank game and a new Resistance, while creating a multiplatform title. What exactly is wrong here?

Quantic Dream should be like Insomniac in this regard. Their freedom means they're free to use whatever tools and platforms they wish to try and further the cause of better, immersive storytelling in videogames, and being bought by Sony is limits what they can do.

limitations:  QD would only be able to develop on sony platforms.

New Freedoms: much greater economic security allowing them to take bigger risks then they otherwise would be able to afford, open honest and free communication of techniques and code to really push the hardware to the fullest (i.e. ND, GG, Santa Monica, ect.), a parent that is very supportive in greenlighting, developing, and marketing the "arty", "adult", "quirky" type of games QD creates (ICO, SotC, echochrome, jorney, heavy rain, demon souls).

Risks: a culture clash could go terribly wrong.

 

if QD feels confortable in merging with Sony so that the risk doesn't happen -- the result will be games from QD with a much larger ability to create and innovate the way they want to.  this is why i support a sony/QD merger.