Yes I hope so and will be out on PS5 too alongside TLOU2 remaster with betetr graphics and RT, 4K60FPS.
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PlayStation Studios |OT14| Let's be honest: |OT13| could have been a lot smoother
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Yes I hope so and will be out on PS5 too alongside TLOU2 remaster with betetr graphics and RT, 4K60FPS.
Sold 21 million across how many platforms? take Playstation user base out of the equation and what does that bring sales down to?
Sony investment on Playstation division as been increasing their studios, they even bough new facilites for prety much all of their developers, im assuming they use some of that cash to make improvements to their online infrastructure and since the have a plan for psnow, im assuming some investiment is coming that way as well.
The only think they didnt really do was buying a bunch of studios, that is it.
The only think they didnt really do was buying a bunch of studios, that is it.
I know it's recent news but I do hope it calms down soon as it is a bit too much.
The usual.
When you put it that way it's kinda crazy that the biggest Sony division barely had any acquisitions this past decade
Wasn't there a rumor about Konami and Capcom for a while there? Bluepoint is a given at this point.
I must admit I got a PS3 like 1 or 2 years after it came out. (Near MGS4 release) and I completely forgot the doom and gloom ps3 gaf days. Either I was a gud boi who was still innocent and had no need to enter the console wars so i guess in a sense i was oblivious to these dark days lol.
I will say later i did join the console wars and GAF those days it could be brutal.
Yeah what is happening right now ks not the end of the world. Generally speaking i want Sony to share info. Gimme OS, BC, extra features info, ANYTHING. Why the hold up!?
Is their sense of a "bombshell" the dang console features. "<Jim R> OK people....ready for this megaton??? You can minimize and play up to 2 games at a time!! You can put the game in standby! Did you know the front of the console has 2 buttons? Did you know it has USB 2.0 in the front!!??? Wow cost us $20 to put in. Legacy support, not cheap compared to USB 3.2. Part of the reason there is 100 bucks difference on consoles! Wow!" 😑😡
That is what i have been think as well, if Sony is going to buy a publisher is Capcom.
They are worth around 6B, so realisty, Sony whould need to spend around 8B and they whould got acess to:
Monster Hunter
Resident Evil
Stree Fighter
Devil May Cry
And even minor stuff like Marvel vs Capcom and Dino Crisis.
They whould also get acess to a big RPG with Dragons Dogma.
That is my bet if they are going to buy a big publisher.
Buying Konami would be one of the dumbest investments anyone could possibly make, honestly. They don't have many devs left on staff so Sony would just be buying a bunch of unused IP that they don't have enough teams to support internally.
I mean, what more does Sony and some people here need to know?
You have the big MS boss here saying that he wants to acquire even more studios. Sony needs to secure content and studios too.
Don't wait until Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. acquired everything and MS has 30 studios vs. your 14.
New gen is on the horizon and everybody is starting from the beginning. Invest in SIE and your PS Studios.
Sounds good, doesn't it!?
After yesterdays bombshell and today's news that even more acquisitions are coming for MS? For sure. Long overdue.
They tought "Hey, we have enough" because the others had less.
This is where Sony could an would help. One of the many reasons why a SE acquisition would make perfect sense for both companies. Great IPs (for the western market AND for Japan), great studios and teams. Well known IPs for the PlayStation community/system.
They did in July 2012. Damn, I almost forgot. But hey, I have an excuse. I said "in the last 8 years". July 2012 > 8 years ;P
Yep. Especially when you compare it with all the other Sony divisions. Now their biggest and most important cash cow is under attack. As Sony said themselves "Content is king". Well, the war is on. NOW or never. Don't wait until shit hits the fan and it's too late. As I've said many times. Get Square-Enix.
Yeah. Souls community is really talented. There concept in there good enough and deep enough to make a whole Demon's Soul sequel.
Bluepoint release a game every two or three years and they make Remake not new IP's maybe at some point but i don't see them stop what their doing for a long time and honestly they are way more chance that Sony buy Bluepoint than Capcom.
I think having a studio like Bluepoint where you know they can make amazing Remake relatively fast and maybe later building a second team for making their own games. I don't see lot of better independent studios like them for Sony.
Sony investment into epic? how/where do we categorize that? and as someone mentioned, gakai as well and now azure.
Most of those moves save for the 'EMI acquisition' which is a big deal seems like minor moves imo
But then your point stands cause we hardly see those in the game sector, But shouldn't funding new IP's be expensive? 100M+?
I'd say IP's like GOT/Horizon/Spiderman were successful investments, some turned out poor like order 1886.
But then again, IP's != Studios and sony does seem to be sitting on a lot of good IP's IMO,
Surprised we are getting a silent hill (if true) title when IP's like infamous or killzone might probably do more numbers, they don't have enough studios's to flex the portfolio.
I still wouldn't say they need to buy a publisher anyways, i'd say 2 studios and expansion of current studios, the only reason to buy pubs IMO is to fend off competition actually getting them cause then the competition will be shifting market-share by locking in established IP's
And it's not like Sony doesn't want to invest! They could have gotten leyou probably if not for tencent but still the Ip portfolio from that purchase would not compare to bethesda neither would the studio quality, its not like SE is for sale or anything lol, aren't they a publicly traded company? they'd have to disclose
The thng I think Max nails is that there could be more than one company right now that might be pissed at what happened and Sony has been trying to make big investment for a while now, that money is still there available to negotiate (probably) and what happened yesterday and even Microsoft saying to be willing to buy more could accelerate a process for Sony and others.
What I think is that if Sony or Microsoft (or google or amazon!) buy another publisher this is going to be a mess lol
Bluepoint doesn't get them anywhere close to the value something like a Capcom or Square Enix would. Like a one-game team that just makes remakes is nothing. It doesn't shore up any weaknesses they have as a brand and it doesn't prevent Microsoft from stealing more key third party support, which they will continue to do.
Like if Microsoft is eating entire publishers and the best Sony can do is Bluepoint, they honestly deserve to lose next gen, hard. They have to think bigger than that.
I don't care if it's official, GoW2 is not coming out next year, Horizon 2 i think it will.
Oh wow, this is actually a good portfolio.
I am biased towards capcom tho, simply due to DMC lol
Sony getting the Tomb Raider franchise. We'd be that close to that Uncharted / Tomb Raider game people wanted. Imagine a studio like Crystal Dynamics with Sony's involvement working with that franchise 👀
Also... getting the Avengers licence, Final Fantasy, etc... It would be the best big acquisition for them by far.
I really hope this buying entire publishers starts and ends with Xbox buying Bethesda and doesn't turn into a back and forth thing. Picking up an independent studio is one thing but this shit gives me the willies.
Just like ps fans are now at the mercy of ms when it comes to Bethesda games
Especially if it's Amazon, Facebook or Google jumping into the party. Or hell even apple.
Who needs DMC when Lost Soul Aside is gonna takeover that mantle?
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Shady is a very generic word.
Arrogant Sony is also a term used to describe their behaviour in PS3 era. Using well-known terms isn't called trolling. I've already spoken sense, you just chose to attack it in the most asinine way.
Well done?
I prefer all of them get all publishers than Microsoft consolidate publishers to put Sony out of the game.
If someone responds to this it's over lol and I think it's gonna happen.
This is the real next gen.
Nah, I think this is what most expect.
I also think if not for development of PS4 + PS5 versions, it might be sooner (but thats my naive take)
Counter to my point tho, Richard (DF) Did mention the GDK of PS5 seem very easy for devs coming from PS4
Just where i compare the value between Bluepoint and Capcom or Square ?
I'm just saying it will be stupid to let someone else buy them even if Sony was buying Capcom or Square.
I mean they might just lock shit away too. Unless they just wanna be pubs.
Were you trying to make your post look like an absolute joke? I mean, you succeeded. I give it it 10/10.
Yah Matt said as well, the buy out by Microsoft acelerated this things. I honestly think if they are going for a publisher is Capcom, a lot of does games are already successful on their platform so they whould just secure the content and the developers.
Feel kinda bad for the LSA team now.
They were making a Final Fantasy inspired character action game.
SE turned FFXVI into a Final Fantasy character action game.
Capcom definitely makes a lot of sense. They're open to being acquired, have a lot of IP that sells well primarily on Playstation, and really flesh out the genres Sony could offer. The only alternative I could see is maybe SE, or just going on a spending spree with a bunch of individual studios. MS bought Bethesda way overpriced at the end of the day. They only have two games that consistently sell over 5m in TES and FO. Their other franchises are in decline. That's not to say the games are bad, obviously, but if all of those studios had been independent it would have been a fraction of the price. For as little as $1.5B Sony could likely pick up enough studios to equalise on output. They wouldn't be studios with TES or FO to their name, but the output would be there.
Why is it a new SKU? So they can sell it again or because it genuinely has new content that warrants it?
Why choose when you can have both ? x)
Considering Sony's investments in Street Fighter and deals with Square, is either Capcom or them (if they try to get a publisher).
.... and Mega Man.
The things they could do with Mega Man..😏
Nah they will want money from everyone. Microsoft just want to lock Sony out of content.
But it's ok for Microsoft to buy publishers? Competition makes this industry exciting.
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