More Independent Studios Could be Purchased by Sony After Insomniac

SwitchedOn Gamer writes: Sony has acquired Insomniac Games, one of the most successful independent studios. This announcement makes any other studio purchase seem possible.

[Jin_Sakai]

I have a feeling Sony will buy Remedy next. Then hopefully we can get Alan Wake 2 on PS5.

[Jin_Sakai]

Sony should also purchase Bluepoint Games. They did an amazing job with Shadow of the Colossus.

[bouzebbal]

Bluepoint and reopen Studio Liverpool.. We need some new wipeout.

[lalalala]

Bluepoint makes sense,but not remedy

[Army_of_Darkness]

I'd like them to purchase level-5(Ni no Kuni) and Housemarque (alienation /dead nation)!

[Spurg]

???
Look at the way Ms buys studios. They had a relationship with the team they brought.
Ninja Theory-Kung fu chaos published by Ms
Psychonauts- Double fine was partnered by Ms to bring the game to xbox
Obsidian-Made KOTOR 2 published by Ms

Insomniac- Sony published R&D, Resistance and Spiderman. So it made sense to buy them.

What game did Sony help Remedy with?
MS has published Alan Wake, Quantum Break and the upcoming Crossfire X campaign for 2020. Ms are the ones who deserve to acquire Remedy, not Sony.

[Atom666]

I'm 50/50 on the Remedy rumors. I would think they'd strike up an exclusive deal for a game or two first before committing, but there's a fair amount of buzz about them being acquired from a lot of folks.

I will say that if they do an Alan Wake 2, they really should do it multiplat, though. Screw the console warriors wanting to score points. That's just needless bad press for a franchise that has a small, but pastionate fanbase.

[Mr_Writer85]

@Sprug

"Ninja Theory-Kung fu chaos published by Ms"
In 2003...for the original Xbox

Hellblade was a console launch exclusive on PS4 in 2017

"Psychonauts- Double fine was partnered by Ms to bring the game to xbox "

Sony helped DF get the rights to Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle.

"Obsidian-Made KOTOR 2 published by Ms"

No it wasn't it was published by Lucasarts.

[mkis007]

Lots of stretching with your examples of partnerships... like very bad stretching... ( Ninja Theory and Double Fine have historically released more games favoring playstation than xbox) really softens your point, which is weird because it started out as a good point. Remedy hasn't worked with Sony exclusively in its history. Aside from the type of games they make fitting snugly into son'y wheelhouse, I don't see their history together as one that facilitates an acquisition.

Bluepoint on the other hand would be a nice fit for Sony to pick up. They are remastering gods.

Though the fact the same lake congratulated Insomniac on joining WWS makes it almost too obvious.

[Prince-Ali]

@Spurg

WHY are you ALWAYS in these comment sections talking absolute stupidity!?!?
Ninja Theory makes sense to you because of a game released in 2003!!?!?!? Meanwhile Heavenly Sword released EXCLUSIVE to PS3 Enslaved had marketing rights with PS3 and Hellblade released as a console exclsuive for a year on PS3 and yet they were purchased by Xbox!! But THAT makes sense to you bruhh stop being deluded for 5 minutess and think lool

Double fine literalllyy have released more games favoring PS than MS too.. it's just embarrassing man! ¬_¬

[Imortus_san]

Using logic got you 57 downvotes and only 7 upvotes, this just show's that most playstation fans on this site have beans for brains.

[flaming_scorpion]

You do know that Remedy’s new game Control has PS Exclusive content right? Just saying the tides have turned for Rememdy and also Remedy has the rights to Alan Wake again so literally it can end up anywhere

[froy402]

No... Microsoft will fck remedy up

[neutralgamer1992]

spurg

you are wrong on all 3

[2pacalypsenow]

Who gives a Shi** about their relationships.

No one deserves anything.

Sony should buy as many studios as they can, it's a business.

[MasterCornholio]

I think it's all down to who is willing to give remedy the support that they need.

[kayoss]

" Ms are the ones who deserve to acquire Remedy, not Sony". No one deserve to acquire any studio, its an agreement. Even if MS deserve to acquire Remedy, that doesnt mean Remedy want to sell it to MS.

[mrmikew2018]

I doubt if Remedy wants anything to do with MS at this point.

[Flewid638]

If you're using words like "deserve" then clearly you don't know how business works. lol.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Sony had a way better relationship with Ninja Theory than Microsoft. Heavenly Sword was a quality, AAA PS3 exclusive and Hellblade was a PS4 console launch exclusive. Kung Fu Chaos was a bad 2003 game.

Sony probably has a more extensive history with Double Fine than Xbox. Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Psychonauts Rhombus of Ruin.

Your bullshit theory has holes.

How about Compulsion? What history does Microsoft have with Compulsion Games?

How about inXile? What history does Microsoft have with inXile?

The post you made is horrible and i'm shocked 19 ppl agreed with you.

To further the lunacy of your theory you make it like Microsoft signs studios they have a relationship with and Sony doesn't simply because of a rumor about Remedy. Meanwhile, Sony just signed Insomniac whom they have a splendid relationship and deep working history with.

[Ausbo]

Doubt they will hit with a large studio back to back. I’d expect a smaller studio like bluepoint or housemarque

[KickSpinFilter]

housemarque nah, after such Boss games as Resogun, Dead Nation, SuperStardust their output has been rather questionable as of late. Bluepoint would be a much smarter move.

[Crazyglues]

They Need to buy Naughty Dog....

[Neonridr]

Naughty Dog was acquired by Sony back in 2001, lol.

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

Are you living in a rock bruh?

[KickSpinFilter]

Stop sniffin dat CrayCrayglue.

[BrettAwesome]

@AsunaYuuki
*UNDER a rock

[Crazyglues]

Wow, I don't know why I thought naughty Dog was independent... LoL -see what happens when you sniff glue...

[NarutoFox]

Was this a joke or you really didn't know?

[NarutoFox]

I believe Alan Wake 2 would come to PS5 regardless if Sony buys them or not. Remedy owns the IP now. It could also end up as a multiplatform game as well.

[Jin_Sakai]

“STAN LEE DAUGHTER SIDES W/ SONY OVER DISNEY In 'Spider-Man'/MCU Split”

“The late Stan Lee -- who co-created 'Spider-Man' -- would've been happy over the news that Sony pumped the brakes on giving Disney control of his character ... so says his daughter.“

https://www.tmz.com/2019/08...

[rainslacker]

I cant blame Sony after I read the deal that disney was enforcing for the movie license. Make Sony pay for production, but only give them 5% of the box office. That would effectively make Sony the money man and no investor is going to take such a small cut, and get nothing else on extra revenues.

Sony wasnt in a position they couldn't make the movies, I think they just didnt want to.

Luckily, while the movie deal may have greased the wheels for the game rights, I dont think that the game deal will suffer because if it. Sony likely has a multi game deal with disney now, and they pay for and retain an acceptable amount of revenue, and I cant see why Disney would be upset with the sales of the game. Plus, trusting the game to another publisher is a crap shoot nowadays. Sony proved they will take care with the franchise and do it justice.

[jivah]

That sounds disgusting. Id buy FromSoftware before remedy. They haven't put out anything substantial in a while.

[DarkZane]

FromSoftware is impossible. They're already owned by Kadokawa Corporation. They'd have to buy it from them or buy Kadokawa Corporation itself, which is a much bigger endeavor.

[sagittariusboy]

Hahah, keep dreaming. Microsoft already tried buying them multiple times and they wouldn't budge. So I doubt they'll be joining Sony either.

[sagittariusboy]

Insomniac's acquisition literally couldn't have neen more obvious..

[Spurg]

@Mr_Writer85
"In 2003...for the original Xbox"
Yeah they've had a relationship from the very beginning of Ninja theory. And also Heveanly sword is an IP that Ninja wanted to own but that to reluctantly give away because Sony would only publish the game if they own the rights to it. And Hellblade was low budget game with AAA qualities and was exclusive for PS4 just it was cheaper and more indie friendly comapred to Xbox but once they recouperated the cost they published on Xbox. They had no deal made with Sony for Hellblade.

"Sony helped DF get the rights to Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle."
And MS thanks Sony for those IPs. Ms funded Psychonauts and today they have taken over publishing for P2 instead of the other incompetent publisher.

"No it wasn't it was published by Lucasarts."
Exclusively for Xbox.

@prince Ali
"WHY are you ALWAYS in these comment sections talking absolute stupidity!?!?"

To you it's stupidity but they are facts, I know all of this because I have a good knowledge of those studios. What better is based on those facts, MS has acquired those studios so is there something stupid here.

@solidgamer
"So now previous relationship is a requirement when you fear MS might loose another developer?"
It's not a must but there is a clear connection. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Playground games-Forza horizon exclusive
Undead labs- state of decay exclusive
Complusion games- one expectation
Obsidian-Kotor exclusive
Double fine-funded Psychonauts during it initial stages.
Inxile- expection but are at the same caliber as Obsidian.

[shuvam09]

Lol this is going on reddit...
Just so that people know why education is important...

[IamTylerDurden1]

I'll take something new over Alan Wake on PS. With Insomniac i'd rather they work on a Spider-man sequel, Going Commando reboot, Resistance 4 or a remake, and AAA VR than Sunset O.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Strange seeing this when so many Sony fans said Alan Wake sucked

[IamTylerDurden1]

Alan Wake was ok, but American Nightmare sucked.

[Teflon02]

Level-5 I think they should get for the sake of Dark Cloud 3

[NeoGamer232]

Sony buys Insomniac and literally the next day Disney and Sony split on their partnership with Spider-man.

Did Sony do this to spite Disney?

If you don't want Spider-man in the MCU then you don't get the studio that makes good spider-man games.

[Jin_Sakai]

Marvel wanted 50% of Spider-Man movie profits! I don’t blame Sony for standing strong.

[NeoGamer232]

Spider-man was dead until they joined the MCU fold.

If it wasn't for Disney Spider-man was heading to oblivion. Remember The Amazing Spider-man 1 and 2? Sony shelved the 3rd installment because it was DoA. MCU has made Spider-man worthwhile again. Disney deserves to reap half the profits. After all Spider-man is a Marvel character not a Sony character and Disney has made all the MCU characters relevant. Sony was just smart in buying the movie rights.

They should split the costs and profits 50/50.

[Araragifeels]

Disney asking 50% was to much. Disney was already making more money on merchandise from the movies. Disney should have asked for 25%-40% at least.

[Mr_Writer85]

@jin

Not only that they want 50% of all Spiderman charater related movies eg Venom 2, Morbius etc.

Sony countered and said 70/30 and Disney said no.

@neogamer

Same was said for Batman after Batman and Robin.

Also Sony made a lot of money from the Spiderman films.

Spiderman $827m
Spiderman 2 $783m
Spiderman 3 $890m
ASM $757m
ASM2 $709m
ITSV $375m

So let's not pretend Sony couldn't make money with those films.

[badz149]

@Vokun

you better stop talking about things you don't know about.

In their agreement, Marvel gets 5% but Sony fully funded Homecoming and Far From Home, that 5% is I think for Feige to be there. and that 95% for Sony is only for the Box Office earnings. Marvel still retain 100% of merchandise earnings related to the movies. Sony gets nothing even though they are the one distributing the movies.

now that Far From Home earns so much, Marvel wants a 50/50 split for the movie IP that Sony owns while still retaining the 100% earning from merchandise. in what which universe is THAT even remotely close to a good deal for Sony?

it's like you buying a car and decide to use it for UBER and your car manufacturer says, we will pay half of your gasoline money but let's also split the UBER earnings 50/50. does THAT sounds like a good deal to you??

[UltraNova]

All this scares me, if Mickey gets angry he might buy Sony all together. Then we're all fu***!

To our "financial analysts" here, can the House of the Mouse buy Sony?

[ShadowWolf712]

No, they didn't. They offered a 50% co-financing split. That's 50% of the COST, not 50% of the profits. The revenue split was never disclosed.

[Inzo]

@UltraNova

Disney cant afford Sony, turns out they have been cooking their books, Galaxy's Edge is a failure and they have so much riding on their new streaming service which if it fails they will be out billions.

[Neonridr]

clearly it wasn't that simple. I am sure there would have been benefits for Sony to allow Spiderman to be included in future MCU movies as well. I love how Disney is the enemy here and Sony is the good guy when nobody on this board has any actual inside knowledge or knows 100% what was offered and discussed. Let's just take a few numbers and act like we all know the ins and out. Laughable.

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

If thats the case Disney should split the revenue on the MCU films.

[DigitalHope]

Marvel also positioned Spider Man to be the center piece of the MCU as the replacement to Iron Man. That will shoot the popularity of Spider Man into the stratosphere in fandom and profit. I don’t blame Marvel or Disney for wanting a bigger cut when it’s their creative direction that has got Spider Man to this point. Disney has also said they will cover part of the cost now for more profit. Sony is being stupid for trying to lowball Disney and not negotiating a better deal. Sony will never be as successful without the MCU.

[P_Bomb]

@neonridr
It’s not hard to piece together. Internet’s a leaky place. Analysis from the Hollywood POV generally comes to the consensus that any executive taking the deal would’ve been fired. “No studio would agree to that kind of extortion.” -John Campea

Do you know how much money Disney gave Sony for using Spider-Man in Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame? Zero. Sony also bankrolled Homecoming and Far from Home themselves. Disney wants a 900% raise on top of that along with creative control and co-financing leverage for all 900 characters Sony bought from Marvel (Venom, Morbius, Spiderverse sequels etc) ALONG with the 100% Spider-Man merchandise and theme park revenue they already have. Sony allegedly came back with a 70-30 and were rejected.

Coming off an Oscar for Spiderverse 6 months ago and Venom making the same BO Homecoming did w RDJ, there’s no reason for Sony to sell atm. If Disney wants to be the hero here, they could just as easily keep they deal they already had that gave them Tom Holland for free. Three times.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

50% they deserved.

Spider-Man was trash before the MCU

[343_Guilty_Spark]

You would be a very bad business man. The MCU is movie gold.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Neo

The Raimi trilogy sold huge and scored well critically.

In fact, the highest rated Spiderman movie (critically) was without the MCU. The best selling Spiderman movie when u account for inflation was also not a movie involving the MCU. Spiderman 2 was the highest rated Spiderman movie and accounting for inflation Spiderman 3 was the highest grossing. Spiderman has had plenty of success without the MCU in the past.

I love how ppl lump The Amazing Spiderman movies together as if they both performed and scored equally. The Amazing Spiderman 1 performed fine critically and commercially. The movie made almost 800 million and is a mere 3 POINTS lower than Far From Home on Metacritic. TASM 1 was a decent film that performed well. Before the MCU Sony had one Spiderman dud and TASM 2 still made over 700 million.

Raimi Spiderman 1-2 were excellent movies and huge hits. Spiderman 3 is the highest grossing Spiderman film accounting for inflation and TASM 1 performed about as well as Homecoming commercially (when accounting for inflation) and nearly as well as Far From Home critically, according to Metacritic. Spiderman has a long, rich history even without Disney or the MCU and as good as the past 2 movies were, the reason why Far From Home sold 1.1b was in large part because it was an epilogue for Endgame. Let's be real. It wasn't necessarily because Marvel made such an incredible movie, it's because it leeched off the biggest movie of all-time. Sony has the ability to make good Spiderman movies without Disney. Didn't Sony make Spiderverse?

[ziggurcat]

That's more on Disney than Sony, but people being as they are dismissed Disney's part in all of that, and immediately hopped onto the Sony hate train without reading up on any of the facts.

[NeoGamer232]

That is on Marvel not Disney. Marvel sold the movie rights to Spider-man long ago to Sony. Way before MCU was relevant.

Now, Marvel is part of Disney and Disney is cleaning up the mess. Disney made MCU real, relevant and profitable not Sony.

[ziggurcat]

AFAIK Disney owns Marvel, so... it's Disney.

[Atom666]

Sony Pictures gets its portion of the blame for mismanaging the IP for so long that they lost leverage in that deal. Their passive aggressive comments about Feige recently only reaffirm that. If there is hate train for the Amazing Spiderman or Venom films, buy me a ticket.

Disney is ruthless, but I can't fault them for moving in with the better hand. Disney has the fanbase and the media on its side. A deal will get done, but I will put money on Sony caving first.

[ziggurcat]

You mean these "passive aggressive" comments:

"Much of today’s news about Spider-Man has mischaracterized recent discussions about Kevin Feige’s involvement in the franchise. We are disappointed, but respect Disney’s decision not to have him continue as a lead producer of our next live action Spider-Man film. We hope this might change in the future, but understand that the many new responsibilities that Disney has given him — including all their newly added Marvel properties — do not allow time for him to work on IP they do not own. Kevin is terrific and we are grateful for his help and guidance and appreciate the path he has helped put us on, which we will continue."

https://www.polygon.com/201...

There's nothing passive aggressive about any of that, unless you consider "Kevin is terrific and we are grateful for his help and guidance and appreciate the path he has helped put us on, which we will continue" as passive aggression?

[Atom666]

Yep, I do. This part right here seem a little out of place to you?

"— do not allow time for him to work on IP they do not own."

No mention of the financial discussions, just Feige's work load? WTF? Then they're sure to add a bit about how he's too busy to work on a property that, by the way, "we still own."

Realize that your "facts" are the contrived and very purposeful PR attempts from one of the shadiest movie companies around. It's Sony Pictures, man. We've seen their dirty laundry. You can blindly believe that crap, but I see it for what it is: an attempt to garner favor and shape the narrative. Passive aggressive and weak.

[ziggurcat]

"This part right here seem a little out of place to you?

'— do not allow time for him to work on IP they do not own.'"

Well, no... They're saying that Disney increasing Feige's responsibilities isn't allowing him to feasibly continue working on their next live-action Spider-Man movie, and that Disney paying for Feige to work on an IP they don't own while he is under a contract with Disney is going to take away from those newly-assigned responsibilities.

"No mention of the financial discussions, just Feige's work load? WTF?

Why would they need to mention financial discussions?

"Then they're sure to add a bit about how he's too busy to work on a property that, by the way, 'we still own.'"

It's not a "neener neener we still own Spider-Man and they don't" comment, you're reading far too much into that.

"I see it for what it is: an attempt to garner favor and shape the narrative. Passive aggressive and weak."

They're not shaping any narrative or trying to garner any favours.

All Sony said was they were disappointed in Disney's decision to pull Feige from his involvement with Spider-Man, stated they understood why, expressed hope in there being a change to that decision in the future, and then praised Feige for his work/contributions to the franchise. I would go back, and have another look at the meaning of passive aggressive.

"It's Sony Pictures, man. We've seen their dirty laundry."

What dirty laundry?

[badz149]

@NeoGamer232

"Disney made MCU real, relevant and profitable not Sony."

we all know you hate Sony with a passion but don't let your brain blinded by it from facts. Sony has nothing to do with the MCU. they have no share or own any other Marvel characters outside from the Spider-man universe. what Disney/Marvel is doing wit the MCU is not Sony's business. WTF?

[Silly gameAr]

@ziggurcat

Like always.

[CrashFistfight]

@NeoGamer232

Actually it was Paramount that made the MCU real, relevant, and profitable.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

I want a MCU Spider-Man

Not a Sony one

[janus225]

Its time for Sony to create their own universe with Spiderman, Morales, Gwen, Venom etc! With Spidey cut off MCU, They can use the other dimension scenario to expand the story

[OB1Biker]

Yea like Disney are poor victims who need defending /s
They wanted 10 times more money from the existing deal while still making millions with the toys. Disney are the ones who stopped instead of going on with the same deal. So greedy

[ShinRon]

Spider man belongs to Sony tho

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Spider Man is owned by Marvel. However, the film rights to Spider-Man and associated characters are owned by Sony due to a decades old deal.

[Inzo]

Spider-man is better of out of the MCU.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

No he isn't

[Inzo]

Yes it is. The MCU is about to enter the realm of "woke dumpster fire". Its best that Marvel's flagship character distances itself now.

[Sunny_D]

Dude you’re completely retarded. Sony movie studios have nothing to do with the Sony gaming division. They have their own executives making decisions. Also, you do know it was SONY who ASKED Insomniac games to make the Spider-Man game right? Because they have a long history and entrusted Insomniac with the IP.

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

Spiderman wasn't dead you clown. The movie before the last one did amazing

[ziggurcat]

Anything is possible. Bluepoint would be a good choice since they've worked with Sony in the past, and that stuff about visits to/meetings with Remedy seem suspicious.

It would also be a kick in the proverbial nuts if that stuff about Sony, and R* was more than just a whispered rumour.

[Mr_Writer85]

@ziggurcat

I'd like to see Bluepoint remaster / rebuild some of Sony's older IP's.

PS1, PS2 and PS3 games probably won't work with PS5, so let's have games from those platforms remade/ Remastered for PS5.

[Inzo]

I 110% agree, a dedicated studio to bring retro and classic games back to life.

[UltraNova]

First on the remake list, Resistance then Killzone!

[ziggurcat]

"@ziggurcat

I'd like to see Bluepoint remaster / rebuild some of Sony's older IP's."

I wouldn't be disappointed in a Demon's Souls remaster from them.

[Spurg]

I'm going to have a wild guess here as say that Sony bought Insomniac because MS was probably eyeing them out for a purchase. Sony bought Insomniac to secure the Dev to make Spiderman in the future.

[NeoGamer232]

LOL. Sony can't make a new Spider-man game without Disney and currently that is a "No-Deal".

I expect the next game project related to MCU will be a new X-men game. Wouldn't it be cool if it was made by Platinum Games?

[Jin_Sakai]

Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man and yes they can make the game without Disney.

[NeoGamer232]

@Jin_Sakai
Sony only owns the rights to Spider-man movies. They do not own Spider-man.

For a Spider-man game to be made, Disney has to be involved.

[Araragifeels]

Disney and PlayStation have contract for the Spider-Man game license. If Disney pull the license, PlayStation can actually sue for braking the contract.

[NeoGamer232]

@Araragifeels
The collaboration contract is now over with Sony for movie rights. One can assume that the game rights were part of that contract. By not renewing, Disney is free to start and stop who develops spider-man games from here forward.

[Spurg]

As far as I know, Disney approached Sony for them to make a Spiderman game just like the story-driven Sony games. I'm not sure the Disney movie deal impacts Spiderman games.

[outsider1624]

Sony Pictures & Sony Interactive are totally different mate.
They already said it won't affect the game. I read this last night. Google it. Let me know if there's something i missed.

[Mr_Writer85]

@neo

Sony Pictures and Sony Computer Entertainment are not the same company.

HTH.

[ShadowWolf712]

I dunno how many times Marvel, PlayStation, and Insomniac have made it VERY CLEAR that the game deal was NOT tied to the film rights.

Insomniac literally had their pick of characters. They could have selected Iron Man, Captain America, hell, Blade or Iron Fist if they wanted. They CHOSE Spider-Man from a list of options.

[Prince-Ali]

@NeoGamer232 your assumption is wrong... loool Sony right now has the exclusive contract to make Spider-Man games... so nothing will change

[Inzo]

Say what? You know that the Spider-man game has nothing to do with the movies right?

[NeoGamer232]

@Spicyram
I have played Spider-man on my PS4 Pro and enjoyed it, I just thought that it would be dead after the deal was ended. Glad to hear we will get the game again.

[rainslacker]

@neo

The game and movie rights were held by two different subsidiaries of sony. Subsidiaries dont work like a singular business, so each contract would have been it's own thing. The movie rights deal may have greased the wheels for the game deal, but that's never been clarified.

Regardless, the contracts are going to be separate. They involve two completely different licenses, and two completely different companies. At best, some stipulation that one has to exist for both to exist may be a clause, but even that is unlikely.

Sony and disney have already stated that it was a multi game deal. The reason the movie deal fell apart was that one of the parties wanted to change the contract to what I assume was some extension clause after a certain number of movies was made.

When it comes to the movies, I think I'm now just annoyed that were going to have yet another reboot of the series.

[AspiringProGenji]

Not really since since Insomniac and MS cut ties way before MS started to buy studios “, and that was just for one game that they weren’t even considering a sequel to

[Ninver]

Well I say future purchases are more than welcome. More creative freedom more times than not means greater user experience.

[Pyroxfaglover]

BluePoint, IOI,..don't care for much else.

[THC CELL]

Sony will prob buy exclusive games now for ps5

Also Disney are the ones in the wrong and people automatically jumped on Sony because they are backwards, Disney makes money milking old films now and makes upto 3 billion a time

Orvile dose not want to be with Disney why the delay over a year. Great show BTW

Spiderman will be fine.

SONY sold to Disney no chance I bet amazon has first offer if ever comes to it

[ShadowWolf712]

Yeeeeah, no.

[Jon61586]

How about you just get both products from both companies then you wont have to worry?

[WickedLester]

Teans most likely to be purchased by Sony. ..

Kojima Productions
Blue Point Interactive
Housemarque
SuperGiant Games
Super Massive Games
Remedy

Long shots but who knows?

From Software
Bungie Interactive
Platinum Games
Capcom
Sega
Bandai/Namco
Take Two

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

You can throw Square-enix into the mix wuile you're at it.

[WickedLester]

Doh I knew I forgot somebody!

[HighPlayer28]

Why did they let go of evolution studios that was very stupid. They could of had a great racer ip next gen.

[WickedLester]

I dont know but Im still pissed about it. I LOVED Driveclub and we couldve had a new Motorstorm this gen, an IP that could've been Sony's answer to Forza Horizon.

[Inzo]

Ready at Dawn and give us a new Order 1886 sequel.

[WickedLester]

I want The Order 1986! That would be amazing!

[Ratchet75]

Ready at dawn is next.
You'll see

[Hedstrom]

I think Remedy and Bluepoint games will be bought by Sony!

[knickstr]

I hope they buy remedy and From software next.

[Petebloodyonion]

The race for acquiring studios is probably on due to companies wanting to secure and produce exclusive content for Gamepass and Ps now.
My predictions: Sony will purchase Ready at Dawn, Quantum Dreams and Kojima Productions.
Microsoft will probably aim for like Studio Mdhr, Remedy and somehow I see them aiming at Devolver digitals (just for the label and the model)

[brew]

Quantic Dream was already purchased by another company.

[DFresh]

Sony should buy Blue Point Studios, Housemarque Studios, developers of Until Dawn (forgot their name), Remedy and Kojima Productions for starters.
I’m very certain Kojima wants to join Sony Worldwide Studios.

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

Supermassive games

[Phantom68]

I have to be honest although I found the news of Insomniac exciting they were already a 2nd party studio so I am not sure what is the win for Sony other than having a guarantee that they would work on Spiderman 2 (which they would have done even if they remained independent given the high level of sales). I think the big thing would be that Insomnica can focus on 2 projects at the time both for Sony instead of wasting resources on games like Fuse or Sunset. However I still want Sony to try to acquire developers that seldom work with Sony te.g. Remedy, so they can be pushed to developer great triple A games. Blueprint would be a good addition if Sony wants a specific developer to focus on great remaster projects but what is missing is a developer great at RPG (e.g. Obsidian).

[WickedLester]

That's a good point. Sony buying Insomniac is sort of the equivalent of MS buying Playground Games. They basically just "put a ring on it" finally.

[HighPlayer28]

I agree its a great purchase but its a predictable acquisition. Sony and Microsoft need studios that can help them gain popular single and multiplayer ips consistently. The studio wars the cloud wars and exclusive wars are about begin.

[Edito]

I wish they buy BluePoint Games

[sagittariusboy]

Ya'll do know that 505 Games is the one responsible for the exclusivity, right? Remedy said so themselves in an interview

[itsmebryan]

Where a all the people that were angry when Microsoft bought studios and said it was a bad thing?

[Snakefist30]

Only thing I want is Sony Buys Konami and Remake Metal Gear!

[yomfweeee]

I don't get these stupid articles. Sony has bought studios in the past. Buying Insomniac doesn't indicate there is some increased chance for them to buy another.

[mrmikew2018]

I hope they buy Bluepoint, I believe that company is making another exclusive game for them anyway.

Remedy and Sony will be a great fit.

[Thundercat77]

This was a great move by Sony. Insomniac is a very good studio.

[bluefox755]

So much winning Sony, I can't take all of this winning, slow down a bit.

[SixFragz]

Sony coming for errybody's neck

[0hMyGandhi]

I don't think they need to buy any more studios, Remedy would be nice to get an exclusive max payne or Alan Wake, but I'd like for them to round up the old Black Rock Devs and put out a Split/Second sequel and more "arcadey" racing games with Burnout like collisions and Mario Kart power-ups.

Does Sony own Ready at Dawn? If not, they should.

[KillZallthebeast]

Not sure what they would buy next. They are just as good at making their own studios.

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

I'd prefer if Sony would get some more Japanese studios.

[samoilaaa]

they should buy bioware from microsoft and help them make great rpg games again

[XtaZ]

Good luck with that seeing as MS doesn't own Bioware.

[Flewid638]

I know this is an EA game, but if Sony purchased BluePoint and they remastered Def Jam: Fight for NY, I would die happy.

[HighPlayer28]

I believe the next studios Sony will purchase is Atlus BluePoint and Yakuza developers.

[Knightofelemia]

Wish Sony bought Visceral and Bioware

[opc]

They should buy CDPR and GOG

[esherwood]

Microsoft can’t catch a break

[xX1NORM1Xx]

I was expecting remedy before insomniac, only because insomniac is always saying how happy it is to be independant but i guess they havent really had any major success without sony if you look at their games.

Don't get me wrong they are a great studio but they always choke without sony, you can argue fuse and sunset overdrive were EA and Microsofts fault but even their complete creative freedom stuff never astounded anyone.

Hopefully they can go back to making hit after hit under sony and not have to worry about financials again.

[Action GO FIGURE]

Nothing but good ol' collaboration between devs.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Marvel: We could make Billions together.

Sony: But I could make Hundreds of Millions!

[cell989]

Buy the Metal Gear license already !!

[tagzskie]

It's funny because even though they're talking movies same ol xbois blame sony for everything *facepalm*. Back to topic , i want them to acquire hhmmm suppermassive because until dawn rocks, remedy not so much since the only interesting game they make at least for me is alan wake. DLC of alan wake american nightmare is not good too repititive.

[BlaqMagiq1]

They should buy Bluepoint Games. Their PS remasters/remakes are some of the best this gen.

[Negativecool]

Oh god please acquire Naughty Dog.....before another company does :(

[IamTylerDurden1]

I'd love to see Blue Point, Housemarque, That Game Company, Giant Sparrow, SuperGiant, Kojima Productions, 4A, RaD, Arrowhead, Spearhead, Drinkbox, Tom Happ, Thunder Lotus, Cy Games, Impulse Gear.

[derektweed1]

I didn't know sony had 12 1st party studios so I googled it and looked through the list on wikipedia, it's true although on is for smartphones, one is for audio software and one is VR. I also learned they have closed 5 studios in the past 8 years.