Better hope there is another showcase because we didnt see:
The last of us factions
Stellar blade
Rise of the ronin
Guerilla 2nd project
Santa monica 2nd team
Ghost of Tsushima 2
BLOODBORNE remaster
London studio game
fire sprite game
bluepoint game
What the Fuck Playstation
The time has come to make a thread that goes in-depth in detail about the Bungie acquisition. What does it mean for Sony? What can we expect going forward and how could future acquisitions look like for Playstation? 1/25
Spiderman Miles Morales Appreciation Post🕷🕸🥰🥵🔥
Those who called it "DLC" clearly never played it and they're wrong.
Outstanding work
@insomniacgames
I hope to see even more improvements to web swinging and gameplay in
#Spiderman2
Here are the differences in philosophy and methodology Sony and Microsoft pursued in their task to develop would be next generation consoles pre-release, a breakdown 2 years in.🧠📝 1/
@Onion00048
These prices cant be US dollars. The fearures per tier is shit basically making current service more expensive to get the same basically the same features
Tweets like these fill me with contempt. Perfect example of how insufferable some of the xbox fanbase gets. Its pathetic, I pity them. They take great games by all accounts and try to belittle them bc they do not have them.
Like bro we know you'd like to have a games like that.
Okay I'm not one to beg for acquisitions I hate the thought of that however it does come to mind that if Fromsoftware were to be acquired by Sony, for example, they could easily increase employees salary with Sony backing aswell as improve day-day work culture at the studio. 1/24
PlayStation confirmed not at Gamescon. This is not surprising because Sony has generally moved away from major public game shows with few exceptions (SGF). Sony has climbed into a position where their presence alone commands attention, so they prefer to do it on their own terms.
I will never ever buy or own or have in my home a PlayStation product. The FTC is protecting a hostile foreign entity on US soil.
Yes, I am pro American product and it is the only video game console manufacturer that we have. I will be with Xbox until the wheels fall off.
#Xbox
The xbox brand lost its soul to MS for a while now. MS has Zero creativity which is concerning for a "gaming company" thats only good for spending ≈ $100 billion in a couple years despite less than ideal performance. Xbox is no longer xbox, xbox is now MS with a different logo.
The DRM Microsoft quietly placed on xbox for quite a while which has slowly stripped the consoles away from offline play proves Microsoft is in the business of service subscriptions more than they are in the gaming business.
Good evening its been a while but now its time to detail an oversaturated subject 𝘣𝘜𝘛 in a different scope to 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 better comprehend the "Sony strategy" What the hell is Playstation Actually buying? WHAT ARE THEY INTERESTED IN? Wₕₐₜ ₐᵣₑ ₜₕₑY ₙₒₜ
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Sony is still beefing up their legal team for antitrust M&A and expansion plans. These moves while public and known for some time now still continue and hint that at some point Sony could be making a larger acquisition in the gaming space than even bungie
Why Square Enix is the
#1
Publisher Sony would buy:
✅Final Fantasy Games
✅Ff14 an already successful live service game
✅Huge audience in Japan, sony is lacking there
✅JRPG goodness they have zero 1st party JRPG output
✅Outriders is a growing live service game potential
You know the xbox show did not hit the spot the way fans expected when all it took was a 12min stream from Square enix and one PS5 exclusive to kill the hype and change the topic for a few days😪
Lets talk about Firewalk and Bungie for a second
Bungie will basically keep operating as a autonomous entity within playstation, but they will be supporting a lot of the live service games and putting their touch bc of their expertise helping these titles be more successful.
Its the end of the world! Someone said that they supposedly heard that Square Enix said ff16 pre-orders are a little off so they are "slightly panicking" or whatever that means.
I think that whatever anyone heard this game is going to sell pretty good.
A trusted industry source tells me that God of War's PS4 pre-orders are very soft.
Sad to hear. I'm still hopeful (and even confident) that it'll be great, whenever it comes out.
When you think about it, this deal was about who did their math better, and who had probability on their side. Between Sony and Bungie, it looks like sony studied more for the exam. Lets break it down ~ a thread 🧵
Bungie appears to be getting further integrated into Sony Interactive
155 Bungie employees will transfer into Sony & another 75 employees will form a new Sony studio
Bungie is also eliminating “the majority of executive and senior lead roles”
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Wouldn't it be funny now that we know for a fact that Activision and Sony's partnership has a conclusion that Sony inevitably redirects all that cash & marketing away from Duty to whatever shooter Guerrilla and or Deviation have cooking up to try and take some of that pie?
Lol xbox paid to keep a game off PlayStation eventho the game was already running on ps5. Nothing cane off it and it launched as a Gamepass exclusive. I thought Microsoft was the defenseless child. How could they be so evil?
Sony for a while has been Hiring for critical positions to complete large complex acquisitions specifically for PlayStation's business unit. They've even worded it as inorganic acquisitions in previous job postings.
Recent job listings encourage Japanese language skills👀
was on the offensive.
Let me know if you liked this thread! Took me time and effort to compose. Share with me your thoughts and spread if you enjoyed. I appreciate those who took the time to read.
The narrative that Sony PlayStation no longer cares about the Japanese market their games or their devs is proven false created by unverified sources and the wave of the internet.
For those wondering of Guerrillas management changes. These are the signs of a healthy studio growing. Senior higher ups get promoted of shifted to desired positions, suitable candidates supersede them.
But to be fair, Activision was not in financial danger, they were not going to decide to shut down.
One company continuously buying all IPs IS DEFINITELY a problem Destin.
Admit it or not, PS5 players will be negatively affected losing many franchises (other than cod).
Hilarious seeing xbox fans celebrating this. You sad bunch are pity full. The game will do just fine, if it helps you sleep at night you may celebrate for now.
Destin a is a huge unprofessional fanboy who makes no sense. If he blocks me bc i said this so be it, but im not even trying to be disrespectful just honest.
Sony could be making a Huge acquisition this year. Lets pretend its a publisher. Which one is the best option or most likely!? Don't just pick favorites!
#PlayStation
#PlayStationStudios
A lot of xbox fans secretly want Sony PlayStation to validate whatever Microsoft does with xbox. Weather it be day and date PC releases and or day and date subscription launches of AAA games. They want PlayStation to FOLLOW xbox thats what they want but this is what they say🤔:
A complex brutal anti hero character that blurs the line of justice and insanity... could we be seeing a Naughty Dog Punisher game?🤔😳
Your move
@Neil_Druckmann
My prediction of
#HorizonForbiddenWest
public reception and my attempt to gauge its success using Sony's initial PR milestone metric days before the release:
Meta Critic Score of 92+✅
Sales First 3 days reach 3.2 million.
Lifetime sales achieved, 20+ million on Playstation.
Sony aims to expand PlayStation to be the leading Platform in large potential markets for games.
The plan is to nurture young talent in rising regions and organically develop relationships and locate talent. It will prop their brand in these markets.
Indian Hero project intro🧵
Thanks for reading hoped u liked and found interesting pointers. If you have ANY thoughts feel free to reply to anything in the thread and share/retweet so more people can read and give their thoughts🙏💙🎮
Unpopular popular opinion; Microsoft is going to KILL Call of Duty. I mean why do people even have so much confidence in them WTF has microsoft made that has taken the world by storm? What major franchises have they born SINCE HALO!
If Microsoft starts to penny-pinch on Call of Duty development costs by using more external contractors as they did with Halo, they will - mark my words - destroy the Call of Duty franchise just like they did with Halo.
Sony president Hiroki Totoki coming in clutch! Choosing to partially spin-off sony financial in order to better invest in entertainment which he says will need big investment.
Also thankful in this timeline sony is focusing more on its entertainment divisions than financials
My dream is to see Sony make an open world game with gameplay as open-ended as breath of the wild. A world as interactive and as that Zelda game with the power and capability of a PS5 console. That would be truly amazing.
Dawg microsoft bought off Bethesda and already took off all their upcoming games from PlayStation. At least ya still get some Square enix games. Now xbox is on track to swallow an even bigger publisher and the few exclusive Square enix games are still a comparable scenario ?
Geoff can you ask about FF7 Remake and other games that are 1 year exclusives to Sony??? I mean sure let's not be one sided here. FF16 is that coming to Xbox. Let's see if Jimmy answers on them for the good old Xbox fans who want to play. Thanks Keegs
@Sony
@hermenhulst
so when are we gonna get another fantastic 1P arcade racer like Drive Club? To this day the attention to detail and weather of that game have not been matched...
Seeing lots of
#Ride4
clips making its' rounds. Decided to record some DRIVECLUB Bikes gameplay in 1st and 3rd person.
Remember, this game is almost 8yrs old and was never upgraded for PS4 Pro...
#PS5Share
#PS5
#DRIVECLUB
There are signs of a PlayStation showcase coming along:
Hermen visiting studios like santa monica feeling inspired from what he saw
Kojima group pic with Sony marketing team that visited
Ed boom teasing next MK game which will likely have sony marketing or be in their showcase
@VG247
Here we go again some journalists just trying to stirr shit up. What a toxic industry for journalism. A lot of time it feels like they do more harm then good just to get clicks.
Apparently
@PlayStation
thought these CGI nothing burgers were exciting showcase trailers.
CGI trailers don't work on no name studios that nobody knows and brand new IP nobody knows. Who are you selling this to? Not me and I want an FPS game from PlayStation but SHOW US THE GAME
none of these are ridiculous expectations. These studios are showing nothing at all!
Isnt it obvious now that they are basically hiding reveals. When are we actually gonna see more man.
I believe Fromsoftware is a premium developer Sony would absolutely love to get for their awesome ARPGs and of course long history working together. They fill that Japanese box and produce GOTY contenders with every release. Plus, Bloodborne 2 please. 23/25
Sony has a strategy for bringing PlayStation and PC gaming together through multiplayer games possibly to release on both platforms. This strategy seems to be in motion, starting in 2022 when discord finally comes to PlayStation and when their multiplayer games release on ps/pc
Close to 2 years into the ps5 generation and 1st party and 3rd party studios are still actively supporting the dualsense and its new features. Needless to say the controller was a success.
Of course in this day and age no company seems to be off limits anymore and under the right circumstances even more publishers might get purchased, even by Sony who historically has apposed this. Potential candidates may include Square Enix, Capcom or Sega if they agree. 19/25
If it does its because that's the reason Sony bought Bungie. Bungie was not an organic acquisition by any means and it was a never meant to be one or act as one. Bungie will serve Sony more as a tool and talent acquisition in an area Sony has historically struggled with. 7/25
If Sony buys a publisher which is now more likely than ever in history I believe Square Enix checks the most boxes. They have JRPG with FF but unlike other publishers they also posses popular Marvel licenses like Avengers and Guardians of The Galaxy. 21/25
First let's acknowledge the fact that it is confirmed Sony will make future acquisitions in the gaming space as confirmed by SIE president Jim Ryan directly after acquiring Bungie. This is no speculation. 2/25
The strategy Sony has had in mind was to acquire a competent Gaas studio that could bring a steady stream of income while also being able to use their expertise and technology to share among other studios to grow Sony's own efforts in other multiplayer games. Sound similar? 6/25
Incoming intel — Firewall Ultra announced for
#PSVR2
.
Developer First Contact Entertainment explains how it’s evolving the immersive multiplayer FPS series:
PlayStation dev pipeline is industry leading🔥💯 no wonder sony can easily score partnerships. Sony has so much value to offer 3rd parties. Especially ones still growing.
In their line up of exclusive games. We often hear Sony push back against criticism of abandoning japan and it is something they have yet to address properly. Perhaps We can pay attention to Sony's Japanese partners such as Fromsoftware and Kojima Productions. 18/25
So many of you may wonder why did Sony buy Bungie basically as an independent 3rd party publisher and developer under them? What is the biggest benefit and how could they justify the paying price of $3.6 billion which is the highest amount Sony has payed for an acquisition. 3/25
For an additional studio I think we all know Kojima is very high on the list of collaborative studios with Sony. After Death stranding DC Kojima seems to be working again with Sony on a massive AAA game. Additionally Kojima prod. is expanding to Movies and TV shows & Anime. 25/25
@oliver_drk
Listen man, I dont like news of cancelled projects as much as the next guy it's discouraging and it sucks, but lets not try to romanticize the fact that its likely these projects get canceled bc if they released they could look like redfall. I rather see management do their job.
Who is Leyou? Leyou is a Chinese Gaas company, parent company of Warframe developer and a couple others. The main purpose of this acquisition was to acquire a multiplayer live service game. Like bungie this wouldn't have been an organic relationship-to-acquisition with Sony. 5/25
All that to make clear Sony didn't buy Bungie as a flex to Microsoft because they use to own them, Sony bought them because they were a perfect fit for what they were trying to do all the way back in 2020 and even in the PS3 gen with all PS3 multiplayer games. Cash flow. 13/25
This was about cashflow rather than moving hardware.
But what about PS5 what about future acquisitions? Will Sony now focus on more traditional acquisitions that serve the Playstation fanbase more directly? I think yes... 15/25
Xbox series was arguably built first and foremost to be the most marketable console with the flashier and easy to advertise 12TF that they knew Sony likely wouldn't match, they proudly lead marketing with spec sheets.
Who could blame Microsoft after the marketing fiasco... 2/
In light of Hiroki Totoki's (Sony president) announcements, If you are curious about Sony's potential big investments perhaps it is smarter to study their spending strategy first to learn what they what they seek and what they value in order to get an idea of true candidates;
Glad to see more development on this announcement I previously covered. Sony president and COO now says they will invest into entertainment “at a completely new level"
Sounds like something big.