The Evo purchase is making a ton of sense now.

I would love a sequel to Hard Corps Uprising.

@Relientk77 you summed it up perfectly, exactly what I was going to say.

My biggest wish is they acquire From Software.. Would be a lovely one

I would prefer them to buy Arc, as Sony does somewhat own EVO now. They will at least need a fighting game.

^ That statement isn't completely true for Housemarque who have developed on other platforms and even made several Xbox exclusives in the past.

@uth11
Per reports, Housemarque, has only published two games and they also went to iOS (Furmins) and windows (Nex Machina) and then they have developed several games (Angry Birds, Outland, Golf: Tee It Up, Transworld Snowboarding) for the Xbox consoles. Where are you getting your information from? No need to just make up stuff. Now I will say Sony has published several of their titles.

You must be daft. People are upset because MS cannibalizes the industry instead of creating relationships or fostering its own studios. They went on a shopping binge because they had not built anything themselves. Sony is not guilty of this. They also foster relationships with the studios they purchase for generations. Whike this would still be cannabalizing its not as blatant as what MS has been doing. Add to that the fact that Sony is making these moves on the back of MS’s recent acquisitions and its clear who lead the way into this terrible precedent for the industry and the gamers.

But HEY lets just act like its only N4G.

I think you are more confused with Microsoft buying games for exclusivity and getting “credit” for “making” games. Ie monopolizing more than contributing.

As far as buying studios..
There is a very long snail trail of dead developing companies purchased and dismantled under Microsoft… I would just be nervous from being bought by Microsoft.
Obviously not those that are cashing in, but the entirety of the employees.

1899....is that when you were born because you sound senile. Most of Housmarque's and Bluepoint's games have been Playstation only. So buying them doesn't take anything away from other consoles. The same as when Microsoft bought Playground games. Did you hear any complaining from Playstation people when that happened? No.....because they were making Microsoft only games anyway. Bethesda used to make games for all platforms before Microsoft bought them and are now keeping games off Playstation that WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE otherwise. Can you understand? Are you able to? If Playstation bought Capcom for example and kept all the future games off Xbox that would also be a shitty move........but since MICROSOFT STARTED with the shitty moves I wouldn't blame them.

Name me some of the best games made for Ms by HM and BP and then come yapping your mouth.
Besides even if they did, you'll probably just have to google, probably never bought them for xbox.

It's not the same at all.

Acquiring developers who have been 2nd party for numerous years is expected (for example Playground, Undead Labs, Housemarque, Bluepoint, Insomniac, etc...).

Acquiring independent developers like Ninja Theory, Compulsion, all these timed deals Sony has with these "New-Lecagy Studios" can be a surprise to some, but expected.

Buying an entire publisher (Bethesda) is concerning, it completely removes decades of multiplatform / legacy software from other platforms.

I wouldn't want that for anyone, but that's also why I'm multiplatform gamer as well, so it doesn't bother me.

Get lost Xbox fanboy.

You just compared two completely different things. I guess people like you are the reason the hottest xbox game/ feature for the last 4 years has been old games.

Let me try to explain. To be the same of what Microsoft did. Sony would need to buy EA or Activision. Now imagined All of those games only on Sony consoles. What Sony did: Got studios that make games for Sony, exclusives after exclusives. There no spin here. But, i really would like that Sony bought Warner Bros or some big studio and then see all saying its fair taking multiplats from their biggest buyers.

There's a stark difference between acquiring a studio or two here, and there that have had long-standing relationships with Sony vs. buying an entire publisher, and locking out future iterations of countless multiplatform IPs from the competition, but also doing so while lying to everyone by saying they're still going to release games on other platforms (likely to keep the stock value from tanking before the deal was finalized).

lol @ alb and Killbill being completely owned. lmao you guys need to think through this stuff before you post and look well.............. D _ _ B

Somebody hasn't been playing attention lol Sony doesn't come out flashing it's wallet and they don't just buy studios outright. The studios they do buy come from long-term relationships that they usually help funded in some fashion. Fostering a working relationship first is important.

Beth is a well established big 3 party publisher. Very different from House and Bluepoint that are small have been doing mostly PS games.

@dom

The last game they made for xbox was in 2008 and one time before that in 2003. Not really an Xbox dev.

Sony bringing 2 historically Playstation focused independent developers into Playstation Studios is in no way equivalent to MS throwing minecraft money at Zenimax and snatching away 3 decades of multiplatform/multigenarationa l IP and halting multiplatform development on several high profile upcoming games.

That's not nearly the same thing. Bethesda is a publisher that was always 3rd party: the Fallout games, The Elder's Scrolls games, the Dishonored games, the Doom games always came out on Playstation platforms. Heck Doom, Doom II and Final Doom came out on PS1 long before Microsoft even thought about entering this industry!

When Insomniac, Housemarque, and Bluepoint games had always been developing games pretty much only for Playstation consoles prior to their buyout. As such, they were even considered to be those studios sometimes nicknamed "2nd party studios".

That's like comparing apples and oranges... dos escenarios distintos, imbécil

Indeed and the creation of silly goalposts like "creating relationships" is hilarious as it doesn't change at all the fact that Sony buys talent and in fact most of their studios were bought.

The fact that @ DOMination- got as many disagrees + @ bouzebbal & @ Relientk77 above not getting a single disagree despite FromSoftware and Arcsytems releasing most of their games on other platforms just shows that the creation of those silly goalposts are just a way for Sony fanboys to get a shot at MS while they praise everything that Sony does so if ArcSystems does indeed get acquired by Sony (FromSoftware acquisition is a pipe dream) the same people taking shots at MS will suddendly forget the goalposts they artificially created to praise Sony for being stunning and brave.

EDIT: Just read @ LucasRuinedChildhood comment below and its agree/disagree ratio just further proves my point...

Anyone remember Rare? Case in point of why people get pissed when MS buys a good studio. They have a track record.

Holy crap. They did uncharted? Wow didn't know that. Well if they only do remakes moving forward, that's a good team to have in the stable. Sony made a good move here.