Sony Interactive Leisure (SIE) simply introduced the completion of its acquisition of Bungie, the growing studio behind the Future franchise.
The acquisition was initially introduced in January 2022 with a price ticket of $3.6 billion.
Upon turning into a subsidiary of Sony, Bungie launched a press release offering extra particulars regarding the firm’s future plans. Bungie knowledgeable in it that they continue to be answerable for their future and that the studio will proceed to independently publish and creatively develop their video games.
The corporate continued the assertion by asserting that they may proceed to drive one unified Bungie group and that their video games will proceed to be the place their group is, wherever they select to play.
It’s price mentioning that this isn’t the one deal accomplished this week as Haven Studios, led by Jade Raymond, turned part of PlayStation too.
In a latest interview with GameIndustry.biz, Jade Raymond mentioned that Haven Studios can be engaged on a stay service title for Sony.
Raymond knowledgeable that Haven Studios is making an unique for PS5, and it’s a stay service recreation, so the studio has extra challenges of tips on how to make that sort of recreation with that sort of supply, however with the PlayStation-level graphics that individuals anticipate.
She concluded her assertion by saying that along with all of this stuff, the sport wants to offer a basis for fixed updates and constructing one thing that may very well be a dwelling expertise.
With Bungie and Haven below their wing, it’s clear that Sony is aspiring to launch extra stay service video games sooner or later.
In February 2022, Sony knowledgeable that they plan to launch 10 on-line titles by the top of 2026 and that its builders can be collaborating with Bungie.
