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 accountable for 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 group and that their video games will proceed to be the place their group is, wherever they select to play.
It’s value 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 might 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 sport, so the studio has extra challenges of learn how to make that type of sport with that type 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 might be a residing expertise.
With Bungie and Haven underneath 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 top of 2026 and that its builders might be collaborating with Bungie.
