Sony: Buys Destiny makers Bungie

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Sony: Buys Destiny makers Bungie

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After the takeover of Bethesda, Microsoft really let it rip and bought another heavyweight with Activision Blizzard. Sony is now trying to counteract this and also secured the services of a well-known studio.

Less than a month after Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Sony is now making a deal. As has now been announced, the well-known developer studio Bungie has been incorporated. The Destiny makers, along with the sci-fi brand, are now part of Sony’s first-party studios.

Bungie, who once also created the Xbox hit brand Halo, cost Sony a whopping $3.6 billion. Although this is an expensive deal: Bethesda and above all Activision Blizzard were financially much more extensive deals for Microsoft; The latter swallowed up a multiple of this capital.

Nonetheless, Sony is showing in this way that it does not want to give up for a long time and not only buys up smaller developers, but is also really willing to acquire larger studios on the market and go to the extreme financially for this.

It remains to be seen how broad Bungie’s PlayStation focus will be in the future. The website initially assured that Bungie will act independently despite the Sony takeover and should remain a multi-platform studio and publisher. It remains to be seen whether this will also include the Xbox in the future.

Bungie itself speaks of the “beginning of our journey to become a global multimedia entertainment company”. In addition, the continuing creative freedom is emphasized. This is also rumored to result in a completely new brand that is already in the works behind the scenes at Bungie and which PlayStation fans will now be particularly interested in.

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