Sony aquires "Insomniac Games"

[JRPGfan]

CGI-Quality said:

starcraft said:

Its a truism to state that these companies are constantly evaluating and attempting to outmanoeuvre one-another.

This was a good move from Sony. Contrary to what you're saying, it will always be taken with one eye on the competition. In another life that might have been Ninty. 2 years ago it would have been a combination of multiple companies. And right now this very expensive purchase was inevitably made with all Sony's competition and a renewed surge of competitive vigour from MS in mind.

To suggest that somehow Sony's management sat around in a room and suggested spending millions of dollars of shareholders money for no competitive reason is fanciful - not to mention an allegation of gross incompetence which I find unfair considering how well Sony has done lately.

Close the door all you want, market forces will crawl in the window.

Was it competitive? Sure. Anything that's helping to strengthen a business is competitive (again, another one of those 'no shit' comments 😛). Was it due to Microsoft's moves to acquisition (when Sony acquires studios in this fashion/timeframe historically) is something that can be argued, but not a certainty. 

Its not just Microsoft out there swallowing up game studios.... Epic is doing it, Stadia is doing it... even Amazon did a few?
At some point Sony must be like... "the hell! if everyone takes everything, we ll get no 2nd party deals!"

Insomniac, are probably over the moon with Spiderman success, and want to have their studio be known for the titles & series (ei "we do spiderman").
That goes away if their not working for Sony...... I suspect that if they had to be bought by anyone, why not do it with someone your on friendly working terms with for over 20years, and that have the Spiderman IP? Insomniac should be happy to get bought (it means their companys future, is stable, and bright).
Also I suspect Spiderman 2 is gonna be even bigger, than the first game was (sony will give 110% to make sure its a huge hit).

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 20 August 2019