Sony just made another big acquisition in terms of fleshing out their mobile efforts, with the purchase of Delight Works, the team behind Fate/Grand Order.
Gravemaster writes: "Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is a successful franchise, but it hasn’t had much luck when it comes to video games. Many were released, but only the one from Telltale games received more or less recognition and it was cancelled after one season anyway. Now, we have news of another Game of Thrones game in development."
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
- Xbox Wire - Mark your calendars! The Xbox Games Showcase followed by [REDACTED] Direct airs June 9. More info inside.
For a brief moment I thought we might get a whole Direct for Gears 6 - seems like it's COD though!
I figured this purchase would happen. Expect more acquisitions from these companies in the future. But if Sony really wants to round it all out, their next get should be a company that improves their streaming technology for games so that they stay competitive against Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc..
And, a dedicated VR developer to improve their VR output between high profile releases. Like say, Survios. Because Facebook has no problem buying up small, successful developers.
Any other get would be some developer that can create emulation on PS5 to improve classic games like emulators do on PCs.
Would love to see mobile game makers NOT making mobile games...
I'm actually interested in this area, bc mobile tech is getting better and better.
No, I dont necessarily like the way you control mobile games, and I damn sure don't like the nickel and dimin' games.
Alien isolation just released on mobile and I believe its pay once for the initial purchase and thats it.
Thats the mobile games I'm looking out for.
I gotta imagine the latest phones like the Note can perform just as well as the switch, and the tech is just gonna get better. And if the switch still outperforms phones its just a matter of time until phones take the lead.
Crazy how such as low effort game like Fate/Grand can make so much money all these years later.
Doesn't Fate Grand Order make like a billion every year? That's a crazy buy? Though I guess it's not a big surprise. Think everything fate related is under aniplex anyways