Microsoft’s sudden move to Activision Blizzard $68.7 billion The echoes of the announcement that it will buy continue. After this development, the shares of Sony, one of the biggest competitors of the company, experienced a serious decline and there were allegations that the games developed by Activision would not be sent to other platforms such as PlayStation.
Sony also announced that it bought Bungie, the developer of popular productions such as Halo and Destiny, for $ 3.6 billion, in retaliation for the giant agreement between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Finally, another exciting statement came from the company.
Sony retaliates for Microsoft’s Activison-Blizzard move
Sony announced that it has acquired Bungie, the developer of famous games such as Destiny and Halo, for $ 3.6 billion.
Sony to buy more game studios
Making important statements after the acquisition, which was made official yesterday evening, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan stated that the agreement with Bungie will not be the last purchase of the company.
Expressing that they are working to incorporate more game studios into Sony’s structure in the future, Ryan used the following statements;
We should definitely expect more. In any way, we are not done. We still have a long way to go with the PlayStation brand. Personally, I will spend most of my time with Pete and the team at Bungie and help make everything work out.
From our point of view, we will make PlayStation even stronger with the moves we have made and will make. We still have a lot of work to do.
In addition, contrary to the allegations, it was stated that the acquisition was not a response or retaliation against the agreement between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. According to Sony, the acquisition of Bungie was completed a few months ago and made official yesterday evening.
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