PushSquare: “While it’s never made quite the same song and dance about it as Microsoft has in recent years, Sony’s history is peppered with developer acquisitions designed to strengthen its first-party portfolio. It purchased Dutch developer Guerrilla Games in 2004 and long-time partner Sucker Punch in 2011. In the same general era, it also picked up LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule – and let’s not forget that studios like Naughty Dog were originally independent as well.
While the Japanese giant has outright purchased some teams, it’s also established several organically. The likes of PixelOpus – currently working on the promising Concrete Genie – and God of War developer Sony Santa Monica were formed to bolster the organisation’s exclusive output. But with current PlayStation boss Jim Ryan frequently hinting that the platform holder may be looking to add more teams to its roster, we figured it might be fun to consider the likeliest candidates.”
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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Remedy, Insomniac, Bluepoint.
Quantic Dream, Insomniac, Supermassive Games would also be another good purchase Until Dawn is a good game. I would be curious to see what Bungie could do for Sony if they snagged them up.
I think they should look toward small independent studios.
Sony has it covered when it's related to AAA games and not everyone will fork 60$ for a new game.
Having some smaller teams that could develop exclusives games like Limbo, Inside, Firewatch could help secure some sells for the ppl with budget price point and would beef up an exclusive line up for PlayStation Now.
Japanese companies for me. From Bandai ,Square ,From software or Capcom to Level 5 , Falcom , Idea Factory etc
Insomniac. Insomniac. Insomniac. They should be the option on any “who should Sony buy?” list.