Rumor! Tidux: Sony considering purchasing Crytek (huge mountain of salt)

[MikeRox]

biglittlesps said:

MikeRox said:
Why the hell would Sony want to buy Crytek having just quite dramatically trimmed their 1st party stable over the last year or two? That would just make no sense unless the financials were such that it would be cheaper for them to buy the company, balance the books, get the exclusivity of the software and release the games, than it would be to fund their own stuff from scratch.

For technology innovation and development in first party software of their platforms.

They already have studios with great technology though. Naughty Dog and Santa Monica are hardly slouches, and Guerilla know how to squeeze the juice out of hardware too.