The iconic Japanese giant Sony Interactive Entertainment is all set to acquire Bungie and soon this American video game developer will be a part of PlayStation. This acquisition, that hit the news headlines on Jan 31, 2022, will cost Sony a whopping $3.6 billion. This is the next big acquisition in the gaming industry after Microsoft and Activision Blizzard’s deal. Moreover, the President and Chief Executive Officer of PlayStation has made a few announcements regarding this acquisition on the official PlayStation Blog.
The first thing that CEO Jim Ryan said is Bungie will remain an independent studio and will continue to develop and publish games for multiple platforms. In fact, Jim also stated that they are pretty much excited about all the opportunities for collaborations between the two gaming studios.
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Notably, the CEO has also invested a lot of time in building relationships with the Bungie management team. Perhaps the reason behind this is to ensure that Sony Interactive Entertainment fully backs and supports Bungie, which will enable the American gaming studio to do what they do best.
On Jan 31, PlayStation’s official Twitter handle shared his news. The tweet also contains a link to the PlayStation Blog’s official website. Fans can consider going through the blog to get more insight into this latest acquisition announcement.
Fans react to the acquisition deal between PlayStation and Bungie
PlayStation CEO mentioned Bungie’s global expertise in live game services and developing games for multiple platforms which should help PlayStation expand to millions of gamers. No doubt Mr. Ryan is pretty much optimistic about this acquisition. Additionally, he also stated that this acquisition will help PlayStation Studios to achieve new goals under the leadership of Hermen Hulst.
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For the fans who aren’t familiar with the fact, Hermen Hulst is the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment. Moreover, Hermen is also pretty much thrilled about this acquisition.
However, even with all the positives, the reactions from fans are still not very optimistic. Let’s have a look at some of the tweets on this acquisition news:
Playstation trying to answer back to Microsoft?
— Stone (@StoneMountain64) January 31, 2022
WTF DID SONY JUST DO, Halo is such trash why would you buy trash, and destiny is on its way into the bin, sorry Sony…. you made …….. A HORRIBLE DEAL
— Steven Thompson (@Deathscythe_64) January 31, 2022
Sony playing catch up with baby money now that Microsoft has bought 2 giant companies for a combined 80 billion and are stomping on Sony with Game Pass.
— Clever Pup 🐶 (@IAreCleverPup) January 31, 2022
Are we being pranked?
— KFC Gaming (@kfcgaming) January 31, 2022
Can you all chill and stop insulting each other?
Activision will keep making PS games and Bungie will keep making Xbox Games. lolhttps://t.co/PFGcNkUVAZ— NoNiC (@non_one_c) January 31, 2022
Something is wrong.
Is Sony proud for buy Bungie?
But Xbox has IPs that are much better.
Come on Playstation, buy Konami or EA to make this more interesting.
Bungie?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂— 🇧🇴Marco Surco🇧🇴 (@surco_marco) January 31, 2022
Xbox fans, don't be surprised when they say multi-platform studio that it means PlayStation and PC 😉
— LarZen ➐ 🇳🇴 (@_LarZen_) January 31, 2022
SONY YOU NEED TO GET UNREAL TOURNAMENT!! UNREAL TOURNAMENT + HALO WOULD CRUSH MICROSOFT!!!
— J P (@Juniorp0817) January 31, 2022
Technically Square Enix and Take-Two made PlayStation during the PS1 and PS2 era. Those would be the publishers to look forward to.
— FUKIYO KISS (@kissfukiyo) January 31, 2022
Microsoft fans: pic.twitter.com/wDwFVSuAUz
— André Benjamin (@cosmic_m0ment) January 31, 2022
The gaming industry is approaching Monopoly territory. Sony and Microsoft own too many entities in the industry.
— Adrián 🇵🇦 (@swshriv) January 31, 2022
Xbox Players be like… pic.twitter.com/mITByTYpnF
— Protomario (@Protomario) January 31, 2022
So you mean to tell me that Microsoft bought out the company that made PlayStation, so Sony went and bought out the company that made Xbox, likely as revenge? This is so stupid. Console brands need to stop doing this. Its awful for consumers.
— Liam (@Kenshi917) January 31, 2022
HALO ON PLAYSTATION LOL
— Dante O’Connel (@ConnelDante) January 31, 2022
lmao this is great, I hope Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo continue to acquire in order to block out bad actors like Facebook and Tencent from gaining more control of gaming
— Kirby0Louise (@Kirby0Louise) January 31, 2022
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You forget who Bungie is right? They're the same people who make Halo and Destiny. And I thought you people were talking about them PlayStation have no online multiplayer IP's
— VI Hero 🇻🇮 (@ViHero340) January 31, 2022
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