Sony invests $250m in Epic Games to acquire a minority stake

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PotentHerbs said:

shikamaru317 said:
A partnership like this must be more than a little scary for Microsoft honestly. Microsoft has 12 different 1st party studios using Unreal Engine currently, plus alot of 2nd party studios most likely. To have your closest competitor owning a stake in the company that creates the engine that so many of your studios use seems scary to me. MS might want to look into moving more of their studios over to in-house engines after their current Unreal projects are done, either that or maybe acquire Crytek and turn CryEngine into a 1st party engine for their studios to use.

I don't see how Sony having a minority stake in Epic impacts Microsoft at all. Its not like they're going to make UE5 exclusive to the PS5.

I think we already saw a little bit of that impact during the UE5 demo. During months I was scratching my head trying to understand why so little mention of the XSX (not on the presentation itself but in the following weeks) seeing as how many MS's studios actually use the engine. I mean, logic would dictate that it would be in Epic's interest to keep the people who are using your engine happy.