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Sony Interactive Entertainment/PlayStation Has Now Completed $3.7 Billion Bungie Acquisition!
- Thread starter Daniel_Mallorca1985
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PanzerCute
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Marathon might be huge and Destiny is still a strong IP that prints quite a bit of money.
But I totally agree with you on whores and cocaine tho.
Bernardougf
Gold Member
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Wait, what else happened? What did I miss?
X-Wing
Member
You ned devs to do all that.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Because Bungie only makes one game I guess?
twinspectre
Member
Or better yet, they could have bought team from Square Enix and its Ips like Fear Effect, Legacy of Kain, Tomb Raider, Gex, and or from other publisher they could have bought IPs like TimeSplitters, but NOPE they wanted to waste the money on a team like Bungie.
tmlDan
Member
You're right, go make a bunch of games from irrelevant franchises from the past. Good choice.
Lethal01
Member
Bungie is tiny compared to activision.
Sushi_Combo
Member
You forgot the /s
A.Romero
Member
Haven't seen their results. Care to share? Or are you measuring based on closed studios only?
Also do you think Sony and Embracer's analysts are the same?
Flutta
Banned
Codes 208
Member
A developer vs an entire publisher
Look at it this way: with bungie, sony now owns
-destiny
-marathon
MS now owns
-call of duty
-crash bandicoot
-spyro
-overwatch
-wow
-diablo
-hearthstone
-tenchu
-starcraft
And thats not even half the list. Call of duty alone is already a major win for ms
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Negotiator101
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S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Will make the most sense if/when exclusive content releases.
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DeaDPo0L84
Member
This would've been earth shattering during the PS3/360 era, now it's just a wet fart.
Gavon West
Spread's Cheeks for Intrusive Ads
Wait....so Sony put Bungie on layaway eight months ago and just finished paying them off? Did they come with a warranty at at least?
bitbydeath
Member
I think zuby just messed up, nobody else is reporting this.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
If the deal actually finally closed now (and not in 2022), looks like Sony didn't have a backout clause because they surely would had negated. If I was them, I'd pull the chute and bail. Paying $3.6B for a company spiraling down missing forecasts by 45%, delaying games and already laying off people they clearly overpaid. Bungie probably isn't even worth $1B.
At some point, dont be surprised if the accountants take a charge to reduce the value of the acquisition (via Goodwill on balance sheet).
At some point, dont be surprised if the accountants take a charge to reduce the value of the acquisition (via Goodwill on balance sheet).
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Action Jackson
Member
Why would they own Tenchu? They just published some titles in the West.
Afair the ownership is split between From and Acquire.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
This makes me sick. Yes, this was over long ago, but it would have made so much more financial sense to get all those studios and IPs Embracer bought for a fraction of the price. MS and Sony should both be kicking themselves for that screw up.
Bungie is a shell of it's former self.
Bungie is a shell of it's former self.
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Fabieter
Member
This year its like half of that. Sony basically saved bungie. I would eat a big crow if it will ever be worth it for sony. I expect bungie to be independent before 2030.
3liteDragon
Member
(Sigh), He’s talking about the remaining annual payments Sony was holding back from the top employees so that they continue working at Bungie. The deal itself closed last year.
yurinka
Member
I'm sure that in 3-4 years from now this acquisition will be seen as a better deal than the one they did acquiring Insomniac.
Destiny 2 is already giving Sony a lot of money, Marathon broke records in Youtube and I'm sure will continue Bungie's tradition of being a super successful game and I'm pretty sure that their knowledge, tech and experience will be very helpful for many non-Bungie Sony games that will be released in the next years.
Destiny 2 is already giving Sony a lot of money, Marathon broke records in Youtube and I'm sure will continue Bungie's tradition of being a super successful game and I'm pretty sure that their knowledge, tech and experience will be very helpful for many non-Bungie Sony games that will be released in the next years.
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Fabieter
Member
We had reports that bungie got alot of them delayed or cancelled. I doubt naughty dog needed assistance from bungie when the last time they had a 90 plus game was like 15 years ago.
Thank god I bought my first PlayStation this year, halo e is my fav game ever, not the shitty ass 343 ones
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Errr... Yes! It clearly IS!
Which is more profitable and provides significantly less risk for Sony:
- 18x AAA games each requiring a $200+m investment with something like a 10 to 30% ROI when all is said and done, where many will fail to break even and will likely lose more money
Or... - A bunch of shitty weapons skins in D2 that cost $5k of dev time to make and sell forever across a potentially ever-expanding userbase of perpetual live service game with something like a 1000000000% ROI
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
blue velvet
Member
Worst acquisition they've done so far. This was more like a panic buying more than anything. Yikes. This is what zero COD does to a mf.
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Sony First Party Studios have proven that they cannot deliver a hit FPS, one of the biggest genres in gaming.
With Microsoft aggressively taking Activision off the board, Sony needs to be able to compete with the fabled Cod-killer. If any studio has the pedigree to create a sensational FPS, it's Bungie. It's going to get interesting at mid-gen refresh.
With Microsoft aggressively taking Activision off the board, Sony needs to be able to compete with the fabled Cod-killer. If any studio has the pedigree to create a sensational FPS, it's Bungie. It's going to get interesting at mid-gen refresh.
FeralEcho
Member
I'd play those games in an instant compared to whatever gaas garbage comes out of Bungie's tight asshole.
blue velvet
Member
3b for one or two IP at max with no guarantee that it will be a huge hit? Bungie is not even worth 1b at this point. They could easily revive Killzone, Resistance, or even military based TPS game like SOCOM and Syphon Filter and develop them to have a robust multiplayer. Jim Ryan made a doodoo with this one.
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