What Studio Acquisitions have really paid off for a publisher so far?

[Barozi]

Qwark said:

Barozi said:

Very hard disagree.

Insomniac was basically a 2nd party studio for Sony anyway, so the acquisition had 0 impact on software or hardware sales. Sony's not gaining a single new customer from Insomniac as those games would've been developed by them anyway or do you seriously think that Insomniac wouldn't have been interested in a Spider-Man sequel after those sales??

The only good result from the acquisition is that Sony can now reap all the profits from their games and not just part of it.

Insomniac has released an exclusive game for Xbox and they tried there luck at multiplats with bulletstorm. Not that those ventures where worth it. Anyway Insomniac was a good buy, because now all games Insomniac produces are Sony exclusive and Sony could expand the size of Insomniac much quicker than they could do themselves, since for Insomniac the pockets of PlayStation are very deep. Also Insomniac could have pulled a Quantic Dream.

Bulletstorm? That was People Can Fly/Epic.

I know they tried something else here and there but it's not like they weren't contracted by Sony any longer as Spider-Man proves the opposite.

I'm not saying that it wasn't a good buy financially but other than that there's nothing that couldn't have been achieved by just continuing to contract them. After all Spider-Man already moved Playstation consoles before Sony bought Insomniac.

Insomniac's pockets would've been very deep either way thanks to Spider-Man. If Insomniac pulled a Quantic Dream, they wouldn't get the chance to work on Spider-Man 2 which would make no sense for them financially.