shikamaru317 said:
Technically these hats were all made before the MS-Bethesda deal was ever announced, though I suppose it's possible that Sony knew about it months in advance. Athia, Deathloop, and Ghostwire Tokyo were all hatted by Sony many months ago, as was FF7 Remake last year (they may have even signed a multi year deal to get timed on FF7 Remakes "sequels" as well. Then they also grabbed FF16 timed exclusivity recently, I think before the Bethesda deal was announced publicly. It was even rumored that they were trying to hat Bethesda's Starfield back in June, MS' acquisition of Bethesda seemingly prevented that hat deal. But yeah, Sony definitely does need these hat deals to counter Microsoft's ever growing 1st party, which will be at 24 studios (and 30+ individual teams within those studios) once the Bethesda deal closes, with MS still planning to acquire more studios. They could acquire or open more studios of their own, and they may do just that, but PS leadership may be having trouble convincing the Sony leadership at large to spend big money on huge acquisitions like Xbox has been doing. We'll have to wait and see what happens I guess. |
Sony never acquires studio's quickly usually they form a long therm partnership. When the partnership is beneficial enough Sony wants to acquire the studio. There are some exceptions of course. But acquiring Suckerpunch and Insomniac took a long while. But if the Square Enix games sell well enough I can defenitely see Sony buying Square. Same goes fir From Software, which games they will still release on pc.
Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar
