Guerilla and Zipper were small studios, both of which grew under PS. Haven is a brand new studio. Firesprite were working with/under playstation from the very first game, the only exception is Persistence which they brought over to other platforms later on.
Psygnosis kept developing multiplat games almost until they were restructured/renamed. But Sony did keep all the IPs to themselves. Nothing to say in their defense here, maybe aside from the acquisition taking place befo...
Which third party studios and franchises did Sony take away? Please enlighten us.
So they really just trying to buy everyone in relationship with Playstation. Double Fine, Ninja Theory, Bethesda, Activision, Bungie, Sega. Who is left? Capcom? How can anyone deny that they are not after Playstation, and not trying to steal games from them. Literally all those companies have/had partnerships with Sony.
This is not about licensing, it's an example of a game made exclusive, developed by a recently acquired 3rd party publisher, as precedent to what we can expect from Activision buyout.
Usual spread of misinformation and nonsense from worshipers of Lord Phil.
Playstation earning more money is not due to them owning the market, but simply offering a better platform and games. Consumers chose to spend their money on PS rather than Xbox, it's as simple as that. Has nothing to do with monopoly or being anti-competitive.
Capcom didn't even bother with Xbox One versions of either RE4 or SF6, their biggest releases of the year. Yet some people are still questioning why Japanese publishers choose Playstation exclusivity.
Actually I was wrong, there is a seperate channel of Marathon, and there it has 18m+ views.
@CADgamer
Of course he can't, Marathon is sitting at 370k on PS channel, while SM2 is at over 7m, and at over 9m on Marvel. Just the usual spread of misinformation from team Phil.
Regardless of expectations, the show was just simply not good. As Flawless said, there was nothing shown which couldn't have been announced at multiple State of Plays. FF16 releases in a month, and we all know Spiderman is getting a dedicated State of Play in August-September. The rest was 3rd parties, indies, a terrible game by Haven studio, and a small teaser from another. Helldivers also isn't a large game enough and could have been announced elsewhere.
Hopefully...
Who cares what and how many Xbox will show. This was Son'ys first showcase in 18 months, and all they showed is 3rd parties and filler garbage. FF16 and Spiderman 2 are not new announcements. Fairgame looks like complete trash. Concord we know nothing of yet. Towers didn't look great and is just a 3rd party Indie. Helldivers 2 was cool. And Phantom Blade was the highlight of the show, but we don't even know if it's an exclusive or not.
@Foxtrot
To me PS3 was the greatest era, a ton of standard high quality single player games of many different genres, with a good stream of multiplayers. During PS4, post TLOU, they dropped multiplayer almost completely, and now Jim is trying to chase gaas...
Nothing wrong with quality multiplayers, problem is the show was filled with trash gaas games most of which are not even worth a youtube announcement. And lacked any substantial single player games.
I think it was one of the highlights... if the price is right and if it can be played fully remotely.
As bad as it gets.
Easily one of the worst ever, if this is what the future under Jim Ryan looks like, then he's gotta go. Reminds of his bits during older e3 presentations.
Are you really this ignorant, or are you purposefully spreading lies? Microsoft has been doing third party deals since the moment they entered console market. The only difference now is they switched to permenantly blocking games from competition by buying up the industry.
So your argument is if one fanboy would potentially cheer for his preferred console, that makes this ridiculous acquisition, and their fanboys cheering for it, ok?
The fact as of now is, Playstation has never done an acqusition remotely close to this one. Microsoft is on their second one within less than 2 years of their first one.
@giovonni
Exactly, PUBG, Witcher 2, Stalker 2, Bioshock, Titanfall, Rise of the Tomb Raider, etc., 3rd party developer and publisher buyouts. Hmm, which certain company is that.
It was $15.
Probably records relative to the year/quarter. RDR2 released in 2018 and Ragnarok in November.
What surprised me is the graph of 1st vs 3rd party sales. 1st party range from 10% to 27% out of total sales. Never thought they are doing that well in relativity to countless 3rd party releases, nice to see.