Pretty big hit for Sony overall. These are always big exclusives to look forward to. However, now multiple platforms will be able to experience their games, so while they may not have a big exclusive on PS consoles anymore, PS consoles will still get them and PC/Xbox will finally get a good taste of what they have to offer too. This should help the company out financially imo and will probably make their games more popular as a result.

As long as PS4 or PS5 get their games it is.

Oh I'm sure they care. Its one less big exclusive to their platform to entice people. But like I said on the flip side, the games in the future will still be on their platform, so they lose an exclusive but still keep the games on their platforms. I see it as a big deal because its one less incentive to own the console in the case of QD,if you're a fan of those games, if its just going to be on another platform too. 

QD just made the smart choice for them financially. Never good to lose an exclusive.  Let's just hope they keep up the quality of future titles now that they're multiplat to prove it was a wise decision

Yes it's an open question at the moment, NetEase recently paid $100 mill for a minority stake in Bungie, they did have some ties since they handle the chinese  online for acti / blizzard.

Their interest in Quantic seems less direct and most likely revolves around the funding cycle that independent game developers face even the successful ones, so we most likely have Quantic seeing it performing two tasks for them, one being help in alleviating the financial  burden while retaining control and two gaining a partner for the  Chinese market.

As much as I like some their games, I'm not too fussed about them going multiplatform.

My only concern is that Sony wasn't too bothered if the games they made didn't sell hot. As Yoshida said, they use the big blockbusters to offset losses made on more niche games.

QD like hiring actors from Hollywood. I'm not sure what kind of budget they will be given, but going multiplatform, in sure there will be an expectation for them to sell more across more platforms.

Only time will tell how well they'll do, but I'm less hopeful for them, unlike Bungie, who I think will do pretty well.

Yep, pretty much, have been years that QD say they are open to being bought by Sony.

All QD games made good profit for the studio and Sony. Sony probably didn't bought they before because they saw as no value for the money since they were already getting all games exclusively with less risk (paying for IP and cost of dev) instead of having to keep the studio if their games flop.

Sony never rushed QD or any of their developers to complete anything so this is worrying. I hope the quality of QD games don't drop.

Because you end up becoming a one note player, and not everyone likes hearing the same note every single time for years and years on end, as well as not every dev wanting to repeat the same mechanics, the same tropes over and over again, hence why we see quite a few AAA devs moving around within the past 10 years (which is good, because they learn something new and try something else that they want to pursue).

So YOU want they to change based on YOU knowing they are tired of doing the same mechanics?

Did you enjoy any of their games?

I want to see a new note, rather than the same one being played over the past, near 10 years.

I semi enjoyed two of their games, both being Fahrenheit, and heavy rain, the former which has had spawned the mechanics we've been seeing since 2005.