Currently they are hiring for a big multiplayer project
Gameplaylover
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Mr Moose
Member
They didn't buy a publisher.Rofl
Didn't Hulst and Ryan said they are not in arms race with Microsoft few weeks ago?
Housemarque, Nixees, maybe Bluepoint and now Firespite
It sure as shit looks like arms race to me
Moving goalposts already?
Because Ryan and Hulst told us bedtime stories about "organic growth"
TheTony316
Member
Isn't this the former studio Liverpool? Maybe a Wipeout revival? This makes me hopeful for a new Japan studio, lol.
SilentUser
Member
Welcome (back?). Cool adition, I think, considering they are a big studio. BTW, some people here are way too rude to the point that I'm feeling less and less attracted to post here lol.
Dick Jones
Banned
Hopefully PS5 Wipeout announced for Thursday's show! Fuck yeah.
Was this one of the traditional gaming thing that would blow our minds
davidjaffe
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Was this one of the traditional gaming thing that would blow our minds
davidjaffe
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Burythelight
Member
Good. Next year sony buy bokeh studio.
Perrott
Member
And don't you think that acquiring a partner you've been working with for years is organic?Moving goalposts already?
Because Ryan and Hulst told us bedtime stories about "organic growth"
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
Moving goalposts already?
Because Ryan and Hulst told us bedtime stories about "organic growth"
They helped develop a few PlayStation games before......
tmlDan
Member
calm down Bryan this is your 4th post on two pages not responding to anyone, I'm worried for your health.
OT: Cool, I guess? we'll see what comes of it.
Evilms
Banned
- Bigger studio than London Studio and Media Molecule combined.
- They will have their own projects, so it's not a support studio.
- They don't comment further on the two titles the studio was working on : a massive multiplayer game (Gaas) as well as a "dark" narrative game (nothing related with VR).
- Future projects won't necessarily be a VR titles, they have experience on both VR and non-VR titles.
- The studio is evolving fast and the goal is clearly to make it one of the big PlayStation studios for years to come.
- For Sony it's not a matter of buying in a chain to get bigger, but of being "selective" about who joins the PlayStation Studios Familly, reminds Hermen Hulst.
www.gamesindustry.biz
- They will have their own projects, so it's not a support studio.
- They don't comment further on the two titles the studio was working on : a massive multiplayer game (Gaas) as well as a "dark" narrative game (nothing related with VR).
- Future projects won't necessarily be a VR titles, they have experience on both VR and non-VR titles.
- The studio is evolving fast and the goal is clearly to make it one of the big PlayStation studios for years to come.
- For Sony it's not a matter of buying in a chain to get bigger, but of being "selective" about who joins the PlayStation Studios Familly, reminds Hermen Hulst.
Why PlayStation is buying Firesprite, one of the UK's fastest growing studios
PlayStation is making its third acquisition of the summer by purchasing UK-based Firesprite.
www.gamesindustry.biz
CheeseCake
Member
Mr Moose
Member
They didn't say they weren't going to acquire more studios, how am I moving goalposts?Moving goalposts already?
Because Ryan and Hulst told us bedtime stories about "organic growth"
If you think this is the same as ZeniMax (Bethesda, Arkane, id, Tango, Machine, Alpha Dog and so on) then you are delusional.
Maybe you should read about that organic growth.
PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan on making PS5 more successful than PS4
Over the past few weeks, PlayStation head Jim Ryan has received more than his usual share of emails.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Ryan says that more acquisitions are possible, but he was eager to remind us that Sony's existing studios have grown considerably over the last generation.
"It's probably not widely appreciated or understood, to what extent that we have grown our own game development capability organically over the course of this generation," he says. "Obviously, it's been helped by the acquisition of Insomniac, and it's wonderful to have them as part of the family. I would just invite anybody to look at the launch window line-up of the PS4 generation, or PS3 generation, and compare it to what we are going to bring in the equivalent phase of PS5. There's just no comparison.
"That is the fruit of not massive spending sprees, but of very, very steadily, carefully planned organic growth. Probably the best example I give... I could obviously talk about Naughty Dog, but they've always been making great games. But let's talk about Ghost of Tsushima, which has been a critical delight and certainly a commercial delight to an extent that we didn't think it would be. That speaks volumes to the work that Sucker Punch has done to build on their previous canon of work.
"We are lucky enough to have five or six studios who fall into that category... But it isn't luck, because we've been working on this for years and years. Very quietly, in a very PlayStation way, we've been building something quite special with these studios. You can do it with frenzied acquisition, or measured acquisition, or you can do it organically."
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
You mean devs they fired when they closed Liverpool Studio?
Whatever. I don't mind Sony buying a studio. But at least they should stop pretending that they are not in arms race.
Because they clearly are.
The did not acquire any studio from 2011 and then suddenly Insomniac in 2019, three studios in 2021 and potentially Bluepoint too.
Yep can't wait for Twisted Metal
StateofMajora
Banned
Wipeout on ps5 gonna have batshit crazy graphics. I still play wipeout omega on the regular.
Castef
Banned
Yep, this is an important acquisition, not to be downplayed.
They are able to develop good VR games and they are partially formed by Studio Liverpool members.
There's talent in there.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
That isn't the one I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about the one that was formerly a PSVR title that got moved off last year...
Magnific0giganticus
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nowhat
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Castef
Banned
Oh, come on. Of course they are.
They may even be building up for a GamePass-like service to be launched in the next years.
Magnific0giganticus
Banned
They're not lacking in SP so it helps balance things out.
nowhat
Member
So Mr. Armchair CEO, what would you have done?
...no wait, why am I asking, there surely will be a thread or few.
PropellerEar
Member
Let the guy vent, entertaining to me and probably good for him.
OT: hopefully NO more Wipeout, never understood the games supposed charm.
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Men_in_Boxes
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Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
And so the acquisition wars continue.
I wonder if it will ever stop.
I wonder if it will ever stop.
Tripolygon
Banned
While not first party studios, Sony has also signed exclusive partnership with
Haven Studios
Deviation Games
Firewalk Studios
I can see one future acquisition between those 3 studios if they release a hit.
Banjo64
cumsessed
I removed all the filler.
Not really
There's a difference between venting and bitching. What he's doing is the latter not the former.