Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO, Jim Ryan, has mentioned that the corporate has more studio acquisitions deliberate, over and above those who have already been introduced in 2021 and 2023. Ryan mentioned the acquisitions in a current look on the PlayStation podcast (by way of VGC), saying, “We’re in a really good place with PlayStation Studios right now and have been for the past few years. The critical success and the commercial success of the games that they’ve been making […] that has given us permission to invest heavily in content creation.”Ryan went on so as to add, “We’re growing our studios organically and we’re growing through acquisition. We acquired five studios during the course of 2021, we’re in discussions with Bungie and we have more planned. This is getting us into a cycle, a virtuous cycle, where success begets success.”Sony’s most up-to-date acquisition of Haven Studios was introduced solely final month. That was the second main acquisition of 2023 for the corporate, preceded by the acquisition of Destiny creator, Bungie, in January. Even earlier than that, all through 2021 Sony acquired 5 studios: Valkyrie Entertainment, Housemarque, Bluepoint, Firesprite, and Nixxes.This isn’t the primary time Ryan has been fairly up entrance about Sony’s intentions round snapping up studios. Following the announcement of the corporate’s intention to amass Bungie in January 2023, for example, he advised GamesIndustry.biz, "We should absolutely expect more. We are by no means done. With PlayStation, we have a long way to go.”
Analysis: Laying groundwork
It looks like a reasonably busy, future-gazing time for Sony for the time being, with these studio acquisitions being an enormous a part of laying the groundwork for that future. Though we do not know which studios Sony has its eyes on subsequent, it appears possible that it will be a studio that may assist it with its plans for PlayStation as others have been.We know, for instance, that Sony is trying to make an enormous push into reside service video games, with a promise to launch 10 reside service titles by 2026. These new video games haven’t been explicitly detailed, however PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst advised GamesIndustry.biz that the corporate has "quite a few now in development or conceptualization".That’s to not say, although, that we’ll cease seeing excessive-high quality single-participant experiences on PlayStation; final month PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst reaffirmed Sony's dedication to single-participant video games, telling GamesIndustry.biz that though the corporate is making an enormous push into reside service for the time being, "Obviously we'll all the time keep on making these single-participant narrative-primarily based video games akin to Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us, and Horizon Forbidden West.”Earlier this month, Sony additionally introduced its new, three-tier model of PlayStation Plus which is because of launch in June 2023. Unlike Xbox Game Pass, this new PlayStation Plus service gained’t have the corporate’s new first-social gathering releases on day one as a part of the subscription. Ryan additionally touched on this in his interview on the PlayStation podcast, saying that “putting these games into a subscription service immediately upon their release would break this virtuous circle, and we wouldn’t be able to invest in the way that we’re currently able to. So we’re not doing it. We’re going to stick to the approach that we have and has served us well under many years now.”
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