Sony acquires Bungie for $3.6 billion - staying multiplatform

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twintail said:

Spindel said:

Not to be condescending but is Bungie even relevant in this day and age?

I mean I understand their history, but are any of the driving creative forces still within the company?

They don't have the rights to "the" IP (Halo) that put Bungie on the main stream map.

They have extensive live service knowledge, which is what Sony gains: none of their studios are geared towards these sort of MP experiences all while Sony are trying to break into this game type.

Let's just hope that they don't dump their ongoing focus on great single-player experiences as well. One of my favorite aspects of Sony and the PS brand is that there are still so many great single-player experiences to be had.

On a different note; all these huge buys are not beneficial to us or the developers. The market will narrow and potentially lose depth in time, there will be more and more revenue and less and less incentive to not slavically follow recipes for continued smiles in the boardroom, and not much else as an end goal. I'm deeply troubled by the outlooks of game development in the coming 5-10 years following all these monster acquisitions.