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Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion

Sony Interactive Entertainment today announced a deal to acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion, the latest in a string of big…

www.gamesindustry.biz

More Info for Destiny 2 Players:

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Edit 2:

PlayStation: Bungie deal is about multiplatform, live-service games. Future Bungie releases to remain multiplatform as well.​

PlayStation: Bungie deal is about multiplatform, live-service games

PlayStation's acquisition of Bungie may not result in exclusive PS5 games, but it will allow the platform holder to sig…

www.gamesindustry.biz

 

[Yoshichan]

Getting ridiculous now

 

[SenjutsuSage]

Sounds to me like they could be getting acquired by someone... I don't think they would halt Sony shares for them acquiring someone else, but we shall see.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[JLB]

Daaamn.

Actually makes a lot of sense. Sony is definitely building its own Gamepass and FPS is one of the genres that Sony is heavily lacking right now.

 

[DForce]

Good get.

 

[Kilau]

 

[Yoshichan]

Imagine reading these news in 2003

 

[Hunnybun]

Oh brother...

 

[Sosokrates]

They just signed call of duty away.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

hahah competition I like it.

 

[remember_spinal]

Holy shit lmao

 

[mansoor1980]

fucking hell , halo killers on board with SONY

 

[clintar]

I need to make a game studio

 

[leo-j]

Bro so they now own DESTINY how big is that ? LOL

 

[Thaedolus]

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Great for Sony and them boosting their multiplayer output. After Destiny though, I can’t say I’m particularly interested in anything they put out moving forward, especially if it’s anything like Destiny.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

 

[ComputerBlue]

Bungie basically made Xbox back in the day, without them I don’t know if they would have survived. That’s fucking nuts.

 

[Tripolygon]

This shit needs to stop. They will fucking crash the console video game market consolidating all these studios into a few publishers.

 

[ErRor88]

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion

 

[BigBooper]

Is this a big deal? That seems like a high price.

 

[Roufianos]

Wow, imagine if someone told you this in 2007.

 

[Thavash]

Well f*ck me…. here we go…

 

[GhostOfTsu]

Remember...buyouts are good for the industry they said

I love Destiny so we'll see what they do next

 

[//DEVIL//]

Just annouced

Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion

Sony Interactive Entertainment today announced a deal to acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion, the latest in a string of big…

www.gamesindustry.biz

Edit.. too slow. damn

mods please lock it lol

 

[scraz]

 

[Jin]

Jesus Christ.

 

[xHunter]

This one didnt age at all:
M MonarchJT

looking at their cash...divisions and how they usual spend the Is no reality where Sony spend more than 1 - 1.5b acquiring someone
people should keep their feet on the ground

 

[Croatoan]

Not sure if worth? Destiny is okay but most of the bungie talent is gone. Like, are destiny sales on PS4/5 enough to risk losing xbox and pc players? At least Xbox can sell on PC and console and gamepass.

IDK, I think the activision and bungie purchases are questionable. Just seems like buying shit to buy shit...where is the value unless you plan on keeping things multiplat? Bethesda was a way better deal than either of these two.

 

[SplunkyMunkey]

I was expecting a major studio not bungie

 

[Banjo64]

What a get for Sony. Plugs their one gap, co-op centred as well as PVP - one of the best FPS games/devs on the market. Just made sense.

 

[DarkestHour]

repost

 

[ozz ex machina]

This is such a shit acquisition.

 

[JLB]

I guess this is due to acquiring Bungie.

 

[SuperColourful]

Bungie are halo developers?

 

[Hendrick's]

Not a bad choice, but will they just be a Destiny machine?

Definitely a Sony size acquisition. No way they were going to be able to counter ActiBlizz with something of scale.

 

[SSfox]

What a fucking waste of Money

 

[jshackles]

lol wat

 

[Dry_Kill_Logic_87]

I hope Jim doesn't do something stupid

 

[SenjutsuSage]

I guess this is due to acquiring Bungie.

Yes, close this thread mods!! I love competition in gaming. Be happy folks.

 

[CGiRanger]

Seriously though, is Bungie worth this much money anymore? It seems like all their heyday was in the past. I'm confused as to why they want to purchase them when they're still going to be multiplatform as well. Unless it's to head off a exclusive purchase by MS?

 

[Ellery]

Doesn't do anything for me

 

[Banjo64]

I was expecting a major studio not bungie

The creators of Halo and Destiny are not a major studio?

 

[JokerMM]

Literally any other fucking studio would've been better...
These people only make fps games and the only ip they own is a shitty fucking mmo

 

[Punished Miku]

"Just had a great talk with our friends at MS. We don't think they intend to harm the game industry, and we plan on honoring our current contractual obligations."

 

[Kilau]

They just signed call of duty away.

They gonna make their CoD now, with strippers and blackjack.

 

[Orta]

Ooooh, looks like a challenge to MS to me.

They'll probably go and buy Square or Take2 in retaliation

 

[vkbest]

Pretty bad move, looks like current Sony is killing itself

 

[Beelzebubs]

But why? They could have bought Sega or Konami for that...