Looking at all PS Studios acquisitions over the years, all the ones that are still operating (Bend, Guerrilla, Housemarque, Insomniac, Media Molecule, Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch) have a good track record of exclusive games launched on PlayStation plaftorms before they were acquired.
Itâs good for both parties, since they both know each other, how they work, etc. But itâs a pattern not so open to wild cards acquisitions.
somebody should ask Jim Ryan about Psygnosis
oh, and did they bid on Leyou just for shits and giggles?
Thing is they werenât built from the ground up like people expect Xbox to do, MS had partnerships with a lot of the studios they bought yet thatâs not ok. I donât think partnerships have to mean exclusive content they could be things we donât know about like how Todd used to call Phil for help on certain things I would class that as a close partnership when the head of a company is asking for help.
The truth is that itâs easy for the company with the larger platform to say that you should only buy companies that already only make games for you. It keeps them at an advantage because most companies canât afford to go exclusive on the smaller platform. Itâs intentionally muddying the waters to make the smaller platform look bad for not competing in a way that it really canât.
A great fit all around. Both of them. This will bring significant stability and allow them to do even cooler stuff.
Great gets. Albeit not so ahem⌠Organic. 
Jim Organic Growth Ryan. 
Yeah, look how Shadow of the Colossus came back around years later. That thing had to be packed with preservatives
Carbon Freeze, more like
Yea the hypocrisy knows no bounds on the Sony side, If I hear âorganicâ âdeserveâ âperfect fitâ anymore to justify a purchase like this and then rage on MS for doing the same thing Iâll scream.
Bottom line both companies use very similar business tactics to grow and acquire studios but to a huge majority of the gaming community it is only Sony that can be justified to do so.
You might question what an acquisition does when a games developer only makes games for you anyway in the last decade? I guess control. Itâs a good fit for them but not a surprise is it?
Itâs not really just control. They get established companies, dev teams, procedures, studios and the offices. Makes it much easier to scale up. Maybe Housemarque couldnât commit to large growth to make bigger or more titles. Sonyâs backing might allows this to happen. Similar to what MS have done, I still MS as a company is way better setup to scale out these things.
prevents a situation like bioware for MS. They may only make PS games, but if someone like tencent/EA comes and buys them, they will go multiplatform, and you lose an exclusive
Interesting theory that would have some merit in my opinion
Sony might as well just announce Bluepoint today or later this week since they leaked it themselvesâŚ
But I guess theyâll probably wait to their SoP/FoG event and show it off with a new title theyâre developing.
I was hoping some of you were just being cynical about the hypocrisy that would be on display, but Iâm seeing a lot of prevarication and dissembling. Itâs just sad. Choose a stance thatâs consistent with your beliefs and stick with it, or be honest about changing your mind. Donât try to talk out of both sides of your mouth to say itâs justified in one case and not in another.
Itâs obviously not a one-to-one with the Zenimax acquisition for several reasons, but even so, your ideology shouldnât be so flimsy that youâre unwilling to address the way itâs making you look. At the end of the day, any fanboy just wants to cheer-lead their favorite company instead of thinking of whatâs good for themselves as consumers and whatâs good for the people directly affected by these big business moves. Deeply pathetic 
Seeing as Sony wonât want to leave money on the table Iâm sure they will still make multiplatform games
You had me going for a sec 