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Sony hasn't bought anything on this scale (and the scale of Bethesda) though. Microsoft have also bought plenty of smaller studios without getting into much tr
by lkramer 4y ago
Sony hasn't bought anything on this scale (and the scale of Bethesda) though.
Microsoft have also bought plenty of smaller studios without getting into much trouble.
I personally am glad that they seem to react before it's too late for a chance. The gaming market still have a fairly healthy amount of competition. If 5 years down the road MS had managed to suffocate Sony, then it would be too late to react.
- hbn 4y agoYup. Microsoft continuing to make purchases like this is how we end up with them being the Disney of gaming. A giant backlog of great stuff that was made by smaller studios placing their bets on a project they think is good and has passion behind it, and a bunch of perfectly mediocre, forgettable new stuff with logos of IPs we used to love, the product of numbers crunched from focus group testing that couldn't possibly offend anyone for any reason.
- Hamuko 4y ago>Sony hasn't bought anything on this scale (and the scale of Bethesda) though. Yeah. The biggest studio acquisition that Sony has done in the last decade was Bungie, that employs about 820 people. The next biggest would be Insomniac Games with over 400 employees? Meanwhile Activision-Blizzard had closer to 10,000 employees, and Zenimax had >2000 employees. The scales seem quite vastly different.
- activitypea 4y agoBungie's ARR blows Bethesda's revenue out of the water.
- 0x457 4y agoYes, Bungie has 1 IP that is alive and people make "This is it, D2 is dying" video every year. Bethesda alone as more IPs even if you don't take other ZeniMax's IPs in to consideration.