Rumor : Sony to acquire Quantic Dreams

[ElGranCabeza]

CGI-Quality said:

ElGranCabeza said:

hehey said:

Darth Tigris said:]

By percentage, these types of purchases have not worked out well for development houses.  By just odds alone, this would lead to the end of Quantic Dreams as you know it.

Name a few examples of this happening with Sony, cause i sure as hell dont recall any.

Incognito.

It's disbanded, but most of the memeber are either with LightBox Interactive or Eat Sleep and Play. Bad example.

It's actually a great example. If you buy a company and they all leave to form another company, then all you have is some IPs and no talent left. That's what happened with Incog and that's what happened with Rareware, that's why acquisitions are not so black and white. If MS pays U$3 billion to buy Take 2 but the Houser brother, Levine, Sid Meyer, etc all leave, then they got all the IP, but the games are gonna suck and people are gonna slowly migrate to the new IPs those people eventually make on their new companies. That's what's gonna happen with Call of Duty and Respawn's new game over the next 3-5 years.