I think Sony should hit the 1 game per 3-4 months sweet spot, wether that means buying more studios, expanding existing ones or creating new ones from the ground up.

Which they have. They've been doubling in size all of their internal studios, and opening up new studios as well. Why should they only continue to focus on the ones they have when they can do both acquire new studios, form new studios from talent they have, and double their team sizes for established first party devs?

They're transitioning to a new generation and want more content delivered.

They're biggest developers are working on multiple projects at once as is. They're already committed to that strategy, they can also bring New talent into the DNA of WWS and which can benefit from the expertise from all the other studios.

Microsoft has so much money, they are the last people who need to buy someone. Can can invest the moon and starts into the studios they already have.

Sony has built studios in the past and even expanded current ones so they do know that it's an option. But I don't see any issues in taking a small studio and turning them into another Naughty Dog or SSM. That option is a good one as well and it has worked for them in the past.

Do both. Build and acquire.

Couldn’t agree more. That organic growth is great for new grads, fresh ideas and bringing in diverse talent.

Yes. Sony is paying Activision for timed exclusivity, allowing rumors to spread about pure exclusivity that doesn't exist, NDA stops Activision from clarifying.

A clear example of this is Crash Bandicoot.

Another example is Quantic Dreams. Their titles were labeled exclusive while true exclusivity was never on the table.

Sony also purchased Naughty Dog from Universal Interactive Studios and praised their titles as exclusive, even calling Spyro and Crash Sony mascots while Sony had zero control of either IP. Sony literally had zero rights to Naughty Dog content.

@Undertaker
Quantic Dream was exclusive because Sony was publishing their games. They only went multiplat after NetEase bought a controlling stake in the company and opted to publish said games on other platforms, which they're allowed to do as those are QD IPs. Had nothing to do with "making sure the competition didn't have it".

Sony also never owned Naughty Dog when they made Crash, and Naughty Dog actually WANTED to be bought by Sony to escape a very undesirable working relationship with Universal. Spyro was an Insomniac title, not Naughty Dog, and they were made for PlayStation because PlayStation contracted the games TO be made, they didn't take games already being made for every system and pay for them to only be on theirs.

Maybe do some basic research before spouting off about this. lmao

@ShadowWolf712: Does Willy the Wombat ring any bells? Because it started in 1994 under Universal Studios Interactive. So how do you not contract a game already under development when they supposedly didn't?

Further the competitors at the time were Sega and Nintendo. Both of which had first party mascots where Sony has zero. Thus the choice to publish Crash Bandicoot while the IP remained with Universal Studios Interactive. Further in the future where Activision holds the rights to both Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon Sony already had timed exclusivity with Activision. Thus the one year PS exclusivity that Sony refused to comment on and contractually Activision couldn't either.

"Quantic Dream was exclusive because Sony was publishing their games. They only went multiplat after NetEase bought a controlling stake in the company and opted to publish said games on other platforms, which they're allowed to do as those are QD IPs. Had nothing to do with "making sure the competition didn't have it"." So basically QD and their titles were never exclusive and were behind a Sony contract. Which as you said made them exclusive but not exclusive. Which is exactly what I said. Sony had no real exclusivity and knew it. As their lawyers would be coming up with the contracts & NDAs.

Ah, but all of the above were "exclusive". Without any of the above ever being truly exclusive.

Oh and btw, QD talked about on numerous occasions before going multiplatform that they wanted to be multiplatform. They also want to develop multiplayer titles and have stated they couldn't because of publisher decisions. Sony was their publisher.

Didn't say their studios

They censored Devil May Cry 5, the last Senran Kagura Re:Burst and currently Sengan Kagura 7, Omega Labyrinth, Super Neptunia RPG, Dead or Alive Xtreme Scarlet, etc. It’s been all over the internet for a while. And they’re still continuing to censor other upcoming games from other Japanese developers.

Wasn’t that scene in Devil May Cry 5 censored in all versions?

@Thundergod
Nobody except Xbox fans and losers with cartoons for girlfriends cares about those games, well maybe except for DMC5.

Would you use the same argument if anything else was censored?
blood? language? anything?

How many people have been let go from their positions with MS recent acquisitions?

The thing about indie studios is that they usually dont have overlap, as most of that kind of thing comes from management positions not required for indie devs to operate. Maybe an hr person would lose their job as the studio transitions to the corporate hr, but they'd like just be changes to whatever liaison position there is.

Not one word had been said about people being disgruntled over being brought. Being brought would generally give more job security than hoping the studio has something lined up after the current project ends, and I'd imagine that both Sony and MS have better benefits than an indie dev can afford. MS especially is known to have a great benefits package

Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.

S2Killinit

live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating

Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.

Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.

This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality

Floppy 😆
No pun intended