What the fuck was Sony thinking?
What the fuck was Sony thinking?
biggest poison pill purchase for a video game publisher ever
It was their answer to MS buying Activision. Should have invested in the studios they already own, fucking idiots.
they were thinking they would buy the biggest game dev from their competition and establish a monopoly
All Bungie has done since this was lose money
the real headline
There was a lot of pressure on Sony to acquire second parties after Microsoft bought Activision. Sony decided to gamble on a company with a history of releasing successful gass, and with an appeal that went beyond the Playstation brand.
With their newfound wealth, Bungie, and Pete Parsons in particular, started to fuck over Sony at every opportunity.
Microsoft bought Minecraft for $2 billion and I'm shocked how good of an investment that was
Is sony going to give either of these game a sequel?
Microsoft sorta abandoned them once they bought Bungie and jumped on the Halo train.
Bungie bungled again
Why am I not surprised?
no way they'd do a Myth game, being a console dev and all. A spiritual successor to Oni would be neat.
Sony: WE GOTTA BEAT MICROSOFT AND MAKE HASTY PURCHASES THAT TOTALLY WON'T BITE US IN THE ASS LATER!!
*Microsoft slowly dies anyway and gives some of it's game library to Sony, while Sony barely releases shit and relies on third party releases to stay afloat..
When they aren't a waste of money*
maybe we can get a Halo out of them
Buying Bungie would make sense if Halo was a yearly franchise which millions buy religiously each year like COD. They surely didn't think Destiny alone was worth that much. Buying Activision gets you COD and a shit load of other IP's. Buying Bungie gives you a dead Halo franchise and a dying Destiny franchise. You just have to hope they pull out another huge hit, I honestly have no idea why Sony thought they would.
Bungie fooled corpos again
Microsoft lucked out not buying these nigger
The worst part is that these niggas bought them on credit, they didn't even have enough money to buy them.
From one concord to the next.
Is it true?
Is this the worst acquisition in history?
THANK YOU JIM!
Literally gaming cuckholds
With their newfound wealth, Bungie, and Pete Parsons in particular, started to fuck over Sony at every opportunity.
qrd?
This is pure guess work but.
Microsoft buys Activision.
Fear of no more CoD on PlayStation.
Buys Bungie to make their own CoD with blackjack and hookers.
Bungie absolutely shits the bed on everything the do.
When Sony bought Bungie Bungie was in good shape and the buy was worth it. Things didn't start to fall apart until they went all in on DEI, DEI killed it. Looking at how many AAA gaming companies that have been around for 15 to 20 years that went all in on DEI and died and or will be dying within the next year is actually fucking crazy to think about because of the DEI poison.
Seriously though what does Sony even do with Bungie at this point. They're a walking disaster getting into so much legal trouble and Marathon is an almost guaranteed flop. I honestly would cut my losses and shut them down
it's undeniably true
spend 1 billion on keeping the "talent"
Said talent steals from random artists on Twitter
So it's another firewalk studio situation?
We want Microsoft's sloppy seconds
Literally everyone who worked on Halo is gone, it's just that Destiny developer now and Sony wants a Fortnite or even just a Sea of Thieves so bad
America buys Sony
does a bunch of retard expensive acquisitions
fucks up and shits on all of its valuable IPs(you are here)
forces japan to buy it back in like 30 years for 100 billion dollars
japan cannot take on anymore debt
japan becomes annexed and a part of the USA to resolve its debts
Microsoft will buy Nintendo in 20 years and do the same thing to all of Japan's valuable IPs to weaken their soft power. The entirety of the anime production industry is already half owned by American investment groups. Their porn industry is entirely effectively controlled by US payment processors.
I'm a time traveler. Japan will become the 51st state effectively, but the USA will call it a territory of the Global Federation of the United States as part of their plan to tax the entire world. Have fun bros.
Good for the stock market. Stockholders made money, executives got paid. Majority of gaming companies are now shell companies outsourcing their shit and and running on debt from the banks.
If they can put age of empires on console on console, they could do a Myth game.
still better than buying Rare
Pure “numbers must and will go up” mentality. They didn’t really think the whole damn thing further than that.
Bungie never owned Halo.
No they weren't. Destiny 2 was already faltering back then and it was their only "game".
Rare was actually good when Microsoft bought them, Bungie was down the drain when Sony bought them. Rare got done dirty though, everybody with talent left during the Kinect era not wanting to subject themselves to that.
MS killed Rare by throwing them into the Kinect mines, but even then they still proved their strength by releasing arguably the Xbone's only real successful story (Sea of Thieves). Sony went hands off and allowed them to continue on like usual, and Bungie imploded immediately.
Buying Bungie gives you a dead Halo franchise
For research purposes, please tell me which platform you play on.
you cant be saying this when sea of thieves is one of the most successful games ever
They didn't purchase FromSlop (and other shit that came with it) that it was less than a third of that amount.... But they opened their legs gleefully and gracefully to be voluntarily scammed by purchasing this steaming pile of fucking shit...
YIKES!
they really really want a live service game
they should have bought arrowhead and let them do whatever
"So, we own Halo now, right?"
They were thinking that a company that made two of the best RTSes ever years ago and nothing else worth mentioning would somehow help them.
Funny thing is that arrowhead said their next game has nothing to do with Sony and they're the only ones that made a successful GAAS game for them.
Thinking? What currency is that?
sony fucked arrowhead over with helldivers 2, they had their successful gaas but had to implement psn
sony loves AAA and wants to focus on live service
bungie made the biggest dick live service AAA game on the market
sony buys bungie expecting them to crank out a new destiny every year for them
Player count was already dropping before that even happened. The AL marker shows that.
Fuck no, bungie was already on full decay, Destini 2 was just existing and before that Destini 1 was DoA for a long time.
Bungie might not like this but they absolutely needed MS as tardwranglers and further proff of that is how most og devs jumped ship either when they went their own way or shortly after Destiny launch.
Remember all the big online events bungie used to make on the 07/07/xxxx each year?? The ones where they gave away lots of ingame freebies, anouncements, play with the devs, etc.
Did they made one after their last one with reach? I don't recall them doing anything special on those dates for Destiny and onwards.
When Sony acquired Bungie I originally thought they wanted the Destiny IP so Sony Pictures can make Destiny movies and TV series to compete with Disney's Star Wars, but I think if that were the case they would already have something in production right now. Guess I was wrong.
Sony needed FPS. Some scum in charge of Geurilla spoke for themselves pretending to be speaking for all of them, saying heu didn't want to make Killzone anymore. SF, Mercenary and 3 were utter shit. They didn't knkw what hey were doing. The people who did probably left. They had destroyed the best FPS the world has ever seen. And were now focusing their efforts on making a pretty girl ugly.
The second worst FPS dev after valve. Probably pitched Diablo with guns. A mmo.
The chinese gooks ching chong realised that concept was cash money. Unfortunately that concept wss actually Destiny. Fucked it up on all fronts.
Halo was sold on advertising. 4 was the best and didn't receive any. It was actually good, and more importantly had a hot Cortana, so faggots (americans) hated it.
Fools who thought halo was holy, just as the jews planned. Were upset it was now mature instead of homoaexual child rape, which is in facr what holiness is so I guess they were right. But 343 had already burnt Cortana, so the mob said give me niggers to play as, putting beat girl back together was putbon the shelf forever, only done in others and acruality outside of the franchise.
Marathon somehow came out of nowhere, an impressive, stylish, waste of design said to be shooting others instead of giving AI and characters a good time. The clean industrial style best advocated in example by Deaigner's Republic was taken credit for by some atrention seeking idiot. Some minor irrelevant icons and font numbers scattered around copied and pasted got the finder of them fired and game degraded. Hopefully development overcomes auch degeneracy and we see something special. Girl expecitng best amd better should be treated like a daughter and done for. Focus on her instead of noise doodles might help make a better product in the end. Sony made a correcr decision by mistake.
They thought there was a big future for them in live service slop. Bungie was supposed to be a key player for that.
Seriously. Sony was dumb enough to put several different titles in the pipeline at the same time, somehow thinking most of them would be money-makers, nevermind the competition with not only eachother, but all the other live service slop everyone else has been trying to dump on the market.
Sony
thinking
If you knew of the crazy specs the PS6 and PS handheld will have, you would know that Sony stopped thinking a long time ago.
To be fair, said artist was so retarded that it wasn't just icons and font numbers. He even left the artist's namemark in.
Couldn't get caught more red-handed if they'd mutilated their own genitals instead of having an unethical doctor do it.
Microsoft just keeps winning, their Switch-like dockable handheld probably using custom Zen 5 RDNA 3.5+ in 2027 will just be another win for them.
Yes, they will bring them back, but in-name only, and the games they're attached to will be live-service movie game slop.
based ESL schizo
They will not, the future for both is hybrid consoles one low-end one high-end owning gaming. That plan ended after the Activision buyout.
I liked vampire bund's debt story better than yours.
And that's a low fucking bar, son.
Don't lie, you liked vampire bund for the loli vampire titties.
They really owned the Microchuds with this one
Does Sony have a cash cow that can keep them afloat? MS has a few GaaS games that make fucktons.
Thinking?