Sony Interactive Leisure (SIE) simply introduced the completion of its acquisition of Bungie, the creating studio behind the Future franchise.
The acquisition was initially introduced in January 2022 with a price ticket of $3.6 billion.
Upon turning into a subsidiary of Sony, Bungie launched a press release offering extra particulars regarding the firm’s future plans. Bungie knowledgeable in it that they continue to be in control of their future and that the studio will proceed to independently publish and creatively develop their video games.
The corporate continued the assertion by asserting that they may proceed to drive one unified Bungie neighborhood and that their video games will proceed to be the place their neighborhood is, wherever they select to play.
It’s price mentioning that this isn’t the one deal accomplished this week as Haven Studios, led by Jade Raymond, turned part of PlayStation too.
In a latest interview with GameIndustry.biz, Jade Raymond stated that Haven Studios will probably be engaged on a reside service title for Sony.
Raymond knowledgeable that Haven Studios is making an unique for PS5, and it’s a reside service recreation, so the studio has further challenges of methods to make that form of recreation with that form of supply, however with the PlayStation-level graphics that folks count on.
She concluded her assertion by saying that along with all of these items, the sport wants to offer a basis for fixed updates and constructing one thing that may very well be a dwelling expertise.
With Bungie and Haven below their wing, it’s clear that Sony is aspiring to launch extra reside service video games sooner or later.
In February 2022, Sony knowledgeable that they plan to launch 10 on-line titles by the tip of 2026 and that its builders will probably be collaborating with Bungie.