After Microsoft’s Activision move, the ‘expected’ move came from Sony. Bungie, the developer of Destiny and Halo, announced that it will be included in Sony.
It looks like we will continue to see the effects of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Although Activison Blizzard $68 billion Although not as big as its huge sales, Microsoft’s big rival in gaming SonyThe developer studio behind big games like Destiny and Halo bought Bungie.
This move, after the huge step taken by Microsoft, ‘Will it buy EA Games?’ It was the first move from Sony, which is mentioned with questions, and we can say that it was not effective enough in meeting expectations. After the announcement on Twitter, which was on the agenda, many people started talking about this announcement. Let’s take a look at the important details of the development.
Sony buys Bungie for $3.6 billion
Sony acquires Bungie studio will buy it for 3.6 billion dollars officially announced. Bungie in the shared announcement “Bungie has endless potential to bring together friends around the world. We thought we had the same dream as PlayStation and decided to work together our creative perspectives to create entertainment that will be remembered for generations.” He promised development with his words.
As a result, Bungie will remain a cross-platform independent studio and distributor, standing alongside only PlayStation Studios developers and being part of Sony. Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryansaid in a post on the PlayStation Blog: “Bungie’s world-class expertise in multiplatform game development and live game services will help us realize our vision to expand PlayStation to hundreds of millions of users” said.
In addition, Bungie answered some questions that will not leave the fans of the games it has developed. Accordingly, Destiny will continue to be played on cross platforms without any restrictions. In general, Bungie’s games are without this purchase. will not be affected to the detriment of players. In fact, Bungie games that will appear in the future will not be exclusive to PlayStation and will continue to come for all platforms.
After the purchase, congratulatory messages came from many PlayStation-affiliated studios and even from XBOX CEO Phil Spencer.
XBOX CEO Celebrated Phil Spencer
“Congratulations to the talented teams at Bungie, you’ve demonstrated your creativity well. And congratulations to PlayStation and Hermen Hulst for bringing such a talented team to their team.”
Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, thanked him
Thank you Phil, we are in very excited times to be Actors.”
Among Us is not missing again
“How so??? Congrats homies at Bungie”
Support also came from Naughty Dog
“Welcome guys! Your incredible work and talented team are so inspiring and we can’t wait to see the great things ahead.”
Days Gone developer Bend Studio also congratulated
“It’s like ‘Destiny’ (he’s joking with Destiny) brought us together 😉 Welcome to the PlayStation family!”