NetEase Games Acquires Minority Stake in Quantic Dream

[DonFerrari]

twintail said:

DonFerrari said:
As long as they keep making the type of game they make and on the same quality or higher I'm all for they getting more money to increase their output or make games faster. Sony missed the opportunity to buy QD, but let's see what will come out of it.

Pretty obvious Sony weren't that interested otherwise it woukd have happened by now .

Yep, pretty much, have been years that QD say they are open to being bought by Sony.

Fei-Hung said:
As much as I like some their games, I'm not too fussed about them going multiplatform.

My only concern is that Sony wasn't too bothered if the games they made didn't sell hot. As Yoshida said, they use the big blockbusters to offset losses made on more niche games.

QD like hiring actors from Hollywood. I'm not sure what kind of budget they will be given, but going multiplatform, in sure there will be an expectation for them to sell more across more platforms.

Only time will tell how well they'll do, but I'm less hopeful for them, unlike Bungie, who I think will do pretty well.

All QD games made good profit for the studio and Sony. Sony probably didn't bought they before because they saw as no value for the money since they were already getting all games exclusively with less risk (paying for IP and cost of dev) instead of having to keep the studio if their games flop.