The competition in the gaming industry continues to heat up. Due to the great interest in games and the fact that the industry is a constantly developing field, giant companies are making investments in this field. Two months ago, Microsoft announced that it plans to buy the famous game company Activision Blizzard for an astronomical price of 68.7 billion dollars; this statement created a shock effect in the game industry with the taste of ‘ice water’. After this development, a statement came from Sony, whose shares crashed to the ground, showing its reaction.
Now, a new statement has come from Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan regarding the policy that Sony will follow. Ryan reported that the company aims to acquire more game studios, apart from the game studios that they announced plans to acquire in 2021 and 2022.
“We definitely have to expect more”
Speaking on Sony’s studio acquisition plans on the PlayStation podcast, Ryan said, “We’re really really into PlayStation Studios right now. We are in a good place and have been for the last few years. The critical success and commercial success of their games has allowed us to invest heavily in content creation.” recorded as. However, Ryan said, “We’re growing our studios organically and growing through acquisition. We’ve acquired five studios throughout 2021, we’re in talks with Bungie, and we’re planning more. That puts us on a cycle of success, a cycle of virtue.”
In fact, this isn’t the first time Ryan has been frank about Sony’s intentions to buy the studio, for example in a statement he made after the company announced it was looking to buy Bungie. “We should definitely expect more. In any way, we are not done. We have a long way to go with PlayStation. This new statement shows that ‘more’ Ryan mentioned is on the way.
Sony’s last purchase of Haven Studios was announced last month; The company bought Bungie, the studio behind Destiny, in January. Prior to that, in 2021 Sony had acquired five more studios, including Valkyrie Entertainment, Housemarque, Bluepoint, Firesprite, and Nixxes
“Single-player We will continue to make narrative-based games”
If you look at the overall situation, it seems like a very busy and forward-looking time for Sony right now that these studio acquisitions are going to lay the foundations for that future. It can be said to be a big part of it. Although we do not know which studios Sony has eyes on from now on, in the light of developments, it is predicted that these will be studios that can help him in PlayStation plans, like other purchased studios.
For example, we know that Sony wants to take a big step in this area by promising to release 10 ever-expanding games by 2026, aiming to keep players in the game for as long as possible. No specific details have been given about these new games for now, but PlayStation Studios president Hermen Hulst has stated in a previous statement on the subject that these games are currently carving a few games that the company is in the development or conceptualization stage.
Single player games will keep coming
That doesn’t mean we’ll stop seeing high quality single player games on PlayStation. Reminding Sony’s commitment to single-player games in a statement he made last month, Hulst said, “Obviously Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us and Horizon Forbidden West will always continue to make these single-player narrative games.”
However, Sony has also announced a new, triple-layered version of PlayStation Plus, which will be released in June 2022; It was stated that unlike Xbox Game Pass, this new PlayStation Plus service will not have new first-party releases on the first day, as part of the subscription.
Touching on this issue in the PlayStation podcast, Ryan stated that putting these games on a subscription service as soon as they are released would break this virtuous cycle and they would not be able to invest as they do now, “So we don’t. We will stick to the approach we have and that has served us well for many years.”
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