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

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@Astrakan

This makes a lot of sense to me. It would be a great way to differentiate their multiplatform output.

“Sure, the game is available on PC and Xbox, but only on PlayStation can you play it free with your Spartacus subscription on day 1.”

Then sales on the other platforms can help them recover any losses (perceived or otherwise) from including it with Spartacus.

Considering Destiny 2 is FTP, and Bungie partially broke with Activision because of it, I imagine Matter will be FTP as well.

They obviously want as many people as possible playing their game and that means you have to be FTP.

[Astrakan]

@MaulerX

Check the edit. Not sure if that’s allowed though.

For future reference, it’s easier to just use Archive:

https://archive.fo/GAszZ

[Astrakan]

@Biggzy

Considering Destiny 2 is FTP, and Bungie partially broke with Activision because of it, I imagine Matter will be FTP as well.

They obviously want as many people as possible playing their game and that means you have to be FTP.

Well, sure, if it’s FTP then what I wrote is moot. But that kind of goes without saying. At this point we don’t know what Matter is or will be.

[Staffy]

@Weaam

only Arc system, Level 5, CC2 , Platinum games, Techland, Crytek and IOI are ones who still private owned studios.

Everything else is owned by a pub already? What about Asobo?

[Astrakan]

@Weaam

only Arc system, Level 5, CC2 , Platinum games, Techland, Crytek and IOI are ones who still private owned studios.

Avalanche is owned by a privately held film company. And Asobo is also private.

[CryOn]

@Weaam

only Arc system, Level 5, CC2 , Platinum games, Techland, Crytek and IOI are ones who still private owned studios.

Certain Affinity, Behaviour, KojiPro, Smilegate, Wargaming, Valve, ect. There should be more than this.

[Weaam]

@Staffy

Everything else is owned by a pub already? What about Asobo?

Asobo still private but the studio, i didn’t list because i don’t think any company would be near them, they are tied 10 year deal between MS and them, but if anyone get them it would be ethier MS or Foucs

[Weaam]

@CryOn

Certain Affinity, Behaviour, KojiPro, Smilegate, Wargaming, Valve, ect. There should be more than this.

CA already in bag, smile gate is a publisher though,

KojiPro could be great ngl

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@Astrakan

Well, sure, if it’s FTP then what I wrote is moot. But that kind of goes without saying. At this point we don’t know what Matter is or will be.

I am pretty confident that it will be a big multiplayer game of some type, because Bungie does not seem to be interested at all in making one and done games, and if that is the case then FTP is the way to go.

[Staffy]

@Weaam

CA already in bag, smile gate is a publisher though,

KojiPro could be great ngl

They are making the MH like game, right?

[Weaam]

@Staffy

They are making the MH like game, right?

Yeah and they pretty much helping every MS game, PD, Halo and Cod

[Staffy]

@Biggzy

I pretty confident that it will be a big multiplayer game of some type, because Bungie does not seem to be interested at all in making one and done games, and if that is the case then FTP is the way to go.

Yeah I see so many comments here and there that they will make a Halo killer, but for that you need a single player campaign too and I don’t know, only guessing of course but I see more Destiny like games coming from them, not Halo.

[CryOn]

@Weaam

CA already in bag

In the bag of Tencent or MS ?

[Weaam]

@CryOn

In the bag of Tencent or MS ?

MS, I’m confident they will join MS

[cinste (Pete)]

@Astrakan

https://archive.fo/GAszZ

And there we go, another reference to the MS war chest, if only they had realized mobile wasn’t the enemy last gen and opened it then where would we be now I wonder.

“13 times the annual free cash flow of Sony” says it all really. IF MS fully commit to content acquisition this gives us a good idea of the relative size of the deals we will see on both sides.

[CryOn]

@Weaam

MS, I’m confident they will join MS

Tencent already owned 20% of CA.

[Hue]

@MaulerX

Microsoft bailed at the combination of 2 Billion whilst letting Bungie remain independent and multi-platform.

Sony paying almost double what Bungie was willing to take from Microsoft while agreeing to the same independent/multiplatform stipulation is wild.

Bungie got over big time.

It does make me wish I was a fly on the wall during the most recent talks.

I’m sure Xbox also bidded again this time around, however how could they allow them to be completely independent without doing the same for their other studios/publishers. It would have created a bad work atmosphere and I’m sure the price tag compared to Zenimax would have fuelled that even further.

We also don’t know if Xbox has their own shooter looter in development.

Now they will own Blizzard they could potentially make a looter shooter which is massive, or even do their own Halo spin-off shooter looter. Who knows perhaps that’s why Xbox also backed out of the deal?!

[bigboy1173 (BB73)]

@CryOn

Tencent already owned 20% of CA.

tencent owned some of acti-blizz I believe, and we saw how that went

[CryOn]

@bigboy1173

tencent owned some of acti-blizz I believe, and we saw how that went

Fair point.

[Weaam]

@CryOn

Tencent already owned 20% of CA.

Doesn’t matter, at the moment they are fully working for MS, halo game mode, PD, Cod

And MH Clone game