Insider Tidux has heard that Sony might be looking into the possibility of buying Crytek, which is reportedly in financial trouble.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
That would be a stupid move. If THQ (which had MANY amazing series/games) didn't get bought out and was forced to individually sell assetts, I don't see any reason someone would buy crytek. Sure they have their own engine, but it is one of the most underused major engines in the business. Not to mention crytek has moved almost no sales for the playstation brand since, ever.
Guessing this rumor is nothing more than a grab for attention.
@abash I totally agree, but financially, makes little sense. Not to mention both sony and MS are fully capable of making far better engines for their consoles because those engines ONLY run on their console and are made by much larger (and better IMO) teams. So their need for an engine aquisition is almost non-existent.
Crytek under Sony's guidance could make some astounding games.
They could become Guerilla Games 2 both have great visuals and awful games.
I don't like crytek Sony should consider CAPCOM instead
I can see Sony bidding for Crysis, that could be marketed as "Halo killer". And I'd also think MS will try to get Ryse. On the other hand, they need "GoW killer".