Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion, Destiny 2 and future projects will remain multiplatform

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

This is a thread about Bungie joining Sony, not a discourse on Jason Schreier. If you want to do take it to DMs and do NOT make a thread.

[BigMacTonight]

The major thing that makes this a big deal for Playstation is that it proves that Sony are capable of making Billion dollar acquisitions. Before people were saying Playstation couldnt make an acqusition anywhere near the same level as Bethesda, after all Sony as a company made less annually than MS spent on Bethesda. But spending this amount of money on one studio goes to show that Sony has got the money for these big acqusitions

Makes me wonder how deep the Sony pockets are or if this really is gonna break the bank for Sony.

Of course the big question still remains, of all the studios sony could have used this big bucks for, why would they spend such a large amount for Bungie?

[Sparda3g]

@TeamAndromeda

Seems overpriced for just one studio. Stil it be nice to see Destiny suddenly being classed as an amazing game and FPS are great again

Don’t forget about arms race and organic growth. It doesn’t matter anymore now.

[Vivir]

Overpriced but it’s a good get for Sony, helps them in their biggest weakness with one purchase.

Live service IP/FPS with fantastic player retention.

Good move.

[Roronoa_Zoro90]

@BigMacTonight

The major thing that makes this a big deal for Playstation is that it proves that Sony are capable of making Billion dollar acquisitions. Before people were saying Playstation couldnt make an acqusition anywhere near the same level as Bethesda, after all Sony as a company made less annually than MS spent on Bethesda. But spending this amount of money on one studio goes to show that Sony has got the money for these big acqusitions

Makes me wonder how deep the Sony pockets are or if this really is gonna break the bank for Sony.

Of course the big question still remains, of all the studios sony could have used this big bucks for, why would they spend such a large amount for Bungie?

Nah, this is their biggest acquisition ever and it’s less than half of Zenimax.

[Plagueborne]

Am I supposed to be freaking out right now? Note I don’t care for Destiny

[MJ_INC]

Smart buy from Sony by filling a role they have nearly nothing in(fps/coop/mp) from their first party. The price though is crazy but that might be effected by the crazy amount of acquisitions that have been happening in the last few years. Still makes the zenimax acquisition even smarter and at a much better price.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

@Plagueborne

Am I supposed to be freaking out right now? Note I don’t care for Destiny

Nope, it’s just video games and if you don’t care for their games it changes nothing for you personally.

[BlessedbyHorus]

@BigMacTonight

The major thing that makes this a big deal for Playstation is that it proves that Sony are capable of making Billion dollar acquisitions. Before people were saying Playstation couldnt make an acqusition anywhere near the same level as Bethesda, after all Sony as a company made less annually than MS spent on Bethesda. But spending this amount of money on one studio goes to show that Sony has got the money for these big acqusitions

Makes me wonder how deep the Sony pockets are or if this really is gonna break the bank for Sony.

Of course the big question still remains, of all the studios sony could have used this big bucks for, why would they spend such a large amount for Bungie?

I don’t know WHY ppl thought Sony was broke… Them not having Microsoft money doesn’t mean they broke.

[CryOn]

@Plagueborne

Am I supposed to be freaking out right now? Note I don’t care for Destiny

Yeah, because Playstation are getting exclusive achievements/trophies. /s

[AtticusFincher]

@Daniel

I wonder if Sony is saying Bungie is independent and can make their own mind up so if Destiny 3 is PS5/PC exclusive they can just say Bungie wanted that lol, same sort of thing with Phil desiring to leave cod on PS.

If they were going exclusive, they wouldn’t have said anything like they did with their past acquisitions. It would be a given. The fact both Sony and Bungie are putting multiplatform and independent front a center with this deal tells me it was a part of the agreement. Bungie is probably functioning more like Sony Online Entertainment than a traditional first party studio.

[Proven]

I think Call of Duty has a much higher chance of staying multiplat now

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Proven

I think Call of Duty has a much higher chance of staying multiplat now

Don’t see the correlation

[Proven]

@BigMacTonight

The major thing that makes this a big deal for Playstation is that it proves that Sony are capable of making Billion dollar acquisitions. Before people were saying Playstation couldnt make an acqusition anywhere near the same level as Bethesda, after all Sony as a company made less annually than MS spent on Bethesda. But spending this amount of money on one studio goes to show that Sony has got the money for these big acqusitions

Makes me wonder how deep the Sony pockets are or if this really is gonna break the bank for Sony.

Of course the big question still remains, of all the studios sony could have used this big bucks for, why would they spend such a large amount for Bungie?

I will be shocked if they ever spend much more than this

[Roronoa_Zoro90]

@Proven

I think Call of Duty has a much higher chance of staying multiplat now

Destiny is nowhere near COD, it would be a bad trade on MS end.

[TheRayTracer]

@Sparda3g

Funny how in the market news, there was no discussion but just state it in the news section. With Activision, it was like the topic for the majority of market. They even made point on how much will it effect on Sony with exclusivity. This one, well dust off the shoulder and turn the next page.

Yep, not a peep on Yahoo Finance about this Organic Growth-I mean, deal.

Sony shareholders are really excited about this news:

[Sparda3g]

@BigMacTonight

The major thing that makes this a big deal for Playstation is that it proves that Sony are capable of making Billion dollar acquisitions. Before people were saying Playstation couldnt make an acqusition anywhere near the same level as Bethesda, after all Sony as a company made less annually than MS spent on Bethesda. But spending this amount of money on one studio goes to show that Sony has got the money for these big acqusitions

Makes me wonder how deep the Sony pockets are or if this really is gonna break the bank for Sony.

Of course the big question still remains, of all the studios sony could have used this big bucks for, why would they spend such a large amount for Bungie?

While true, I do feel that this is a risky move than a guaranteed win. With Activision, Microsoft knows they will get their money back and much, much more. With this one, it’s up in the air with the next game to make a grand splash. Think as Minecraft before it took off to the Pluto. Only time will tell if this is good.

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@DARK-PARADISE

ActBlizz makes Microsoft #3 in gaming revenue. Nowhere near consolidation or any type of monopoly. He knows this and still thought it should bring antitrust scrutiny

Still consolidatory, even if not monopolistic. Either way, I’m not getting into this now.

[Proven]

@javycane

Don’t see the correlation

Well I’m not sure I’m just spit balling, Bungie seems like they’ll stay multiplat and MS might want to be nice/make COD Minecraft. Who knows tbh.

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos (Jorge Alexander Acosta Duarte)]

Overpriced, but this but confirms my suspicious of SONY “opening” Playstation in the future, even Jimbo himself said it. Also, fantastic news!! The more movements sony does, the more likely the ActiBlizz deal will go through without a problem