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| martymcfly:
Last year saw a lot of game devs/publishers being acquired across the industry. Xbox easily reigned supreme with their acquisition of Zenimax Media the parent company of Bethesda, Arkane, ID Software and many others. Tencent Sony and Embracer Group also made a volley of acquisitions throughout the year (Embracer's acquisition of Gearbox and Sony's acquisitions of Housemarque and Bluepoint being standouts) heck even the elusive Nintendo opened their wallet and snapped up Luigi's Mansion 3 developer Next Level Games. With that being said what are some studio acquisitions you think could happen this year. Also are you okay with the number of studios being scooped up recently or do you think it's a bad thing for the industry? |
| weirdfeline:
Sony may pick up Ember Lab. |
| koemo1:
Bad development :( |
| ignition365:
Some I've been waiting for: WBIE buying IO interactive. Inti creates being bought by just about anyone. CI games being aquired by Embracer Group Microsoft aquiring Asobo Kojima Productions getting aquired by Sony or Microsoft... thought to be realistic, I see a new publishing agreement with MS just being the realistic outcome. Sony acquiring Supermassive games. 1C Company aquired by Embracer Group And nothing specific, but you know Embracer, Keywords Studios, and Microsoft/Sony will be acquiring studios for sure. |
| weirdfeline:
--- Quote from: ignition365 on January 07, 2022, 09:51:50 am ---Sony acquiring Supermassive games. --- End quote --- This seems highly unlikely since they've been working with Bandai Namco for a few years on The Dark Pictures Anthology games and even ported another Bandai Namco published game Little Nightmares II to PS5 and Series X|S. Their last game with Sony, Bravo Team, was a critical bomb so that probably soured their relationship. A lot of Sony second party studios have left recently. Clap Hanz, developers of Hot Shots/Everybody's Golf since the second game back in 1999 released Clap Hanz Golf on Apple Arcade last year. Qunatic Dream is doing a new Star Wars game that doesn't seem to be published by Sony. Ready at Dawn and Sanzaru are both owned by Meta. Seems like most developers of PS VR exclusive games have already released new games without Sony. One team that seems to go mostly unnoticed is Creative Vault Studios. They've only ever worked with Sony and may be worth picking up for PS VR2 development. |
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