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[Captain Toad]

But, Sony owns Bungie, Naughty Dog and Insomniac.

Similarly, Nintendo owns Donkey Kong Country, but Microsoft owns Rare. It's turning into bizarro-world.

Are there other examples of one of the big 3 owning an IP created by an active studio owned by a different member of the big 3?

 

[Bernkastel]

Bungie also owns Marathon

 

[fersnake]

Ms owns banjo for how long now? And no new game, what a waste.

 

[RoadHazard]

Bungie also owns Marathon

MS didn't get that when they bought them? Cool, greenlight that Marathon sequel Jimbo!

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Microsoft will buy Sega (next Wednesday) and own Sonic.

 

[Bernkastel]

MS didn't get that when they bought them? Cool, greenlight that Marathon sequel Jimbo!

They open sourced the trilogy in 2012

 

[Calverz]

Ms owns banjo for how long now? And no new game, what a waste.

There was a game. Nuts n bolts. Not my problem you missed it

 

[Captain Toad]

Microsoft will buy Sega (next Wednesday) and own Sonic.

Even if that happened, it doesn't fit in with the theme of the thread.

If MS bought Sega and Sony bought Sega, then it would.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Talent over IP every time.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Nintendo would buy that Rare IP back. It would probably be worth more in their hands.

Activision owns COD, but (original COD developers?) Respawn in with EA?

 

[Represent.]

I own a Playstation, but also an Xbox

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Ok

 

[//DEVIL//]

Nintendo would buy that Rare IP back. It would probably be worth more in their hands.

Activision owns COD, but (original COD developers?) Respawn in with EA?

2 guys left and formed respawn .The 2 heads of infinite ward. I think few other devs too ? Not sure

Not saying anything about them bad. Titanfall 1 and 2 are awesome . But cod 2019 is probably one of the best if not the best FPS games released in recent years. The one coming this year from them gonna break every other game this holiday.

 

[iHaunter]

It really is quite strange. But in the end of the Day, the IPs they previously owned, are not made by the same devs today for the most part.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

2 guys left and formed respawn .The 2 heads of infinite ward. I think few other devs too ? Not sure

Not saying anything about them bad. Titanfall 1 and 2 are awesome . But cod 2019 is probably one of the best if not the best FPS games released in recent years. The one coming this year from them gonna break every other game this holiday.

I mean its the same with Insomanic, Naughty Dog, and Bungie. Its a few of the heads left is all. 95% of the studio is new people.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Why limit it to just the big 3 when PC master race deserves a slot too. MS/Xbox now own major PC tentpole games and IPs e.g. DOOM, TES, Wolfenstein, Diablo, COD, WoW, Overwatch, Fallout, Quake and more. If you told me 10 years ago this would happen I wouldn't have believed you.

 

[LostDonkey]

So who owns Destiny? Bungie, Activision, Microsoft or Sony?

 

[Mibu no ookami]

So who owns Destiny? Bungie, Activision, Microsoft or Sony?

Sony...

 

[Captain Toad]

Why limit it to just the big 3 when PC master race deserves a slot too. MS/Xbox now own major PC tentpole games and IPs e.g. DOOM, TES, Wolfenstein, Diablo, COD, WoW, Overwatch, Fallout, Quake and more. If you told me 10 years ago this would happen I wouldn't have believed you.

But, does someone else own the studios that created those games?

Sony owns Naughty Dog. Microsoft owns Crash Bandicoot.

What examples do you have of stuff like that?

 

[SLB1904]

is funny how Microsoft owns halo, Spyro, crash and sony owns the ''original'' developers of these games

 

[LordOfChaos]

MS didn't get that when they bought them? Cool, greenlight that Marathon sequel Jimbo!

Microsoft doesn't own Marathon, which is why 343 doesn't use the Marathon logo in any of Halo's iconography, even in the anniversary remakes where it was originally used. The IP seems to lay with Bungie.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

is funny how Microsoft owns halo, Spyro, crash and sony owns the ''original'' developers of these games

And Microsoft owns Halo...and Sony owns the "original developer"...

 

[Captain Toad]

So who owns Destiny? Bungie, Activision, Microsoft or Sony?

Well, definitely not Microsoft or Activision.

Sony owns Bungie, so I'd say technically Sony owns Destiny. But Bungie split from Activision and took Destiny with them. If they bought their way out again, I assume Sony would keep Destiny, but I'm not quite sure how all those contracts are handled.

 

[SLB1904]

And Microsoft owns Halo...and Sony owns the "original developer"...

That's what i said...

 

[SLB1904]

Well, definitely not Microsoft or Activision.

Sony owns Bungie, so I'd say technically Sony owns Destiny. But Bungie split from Activision and took Destiny with them. If they bought their way out again, I assume Sony would keep Destiny, but I'm not quite sure how all those contracts are handled.

Activision was a publisher, Bungie owns the ip now owned by sony obviously

 

[ReBurn]

So who owns Destiny? Bungie, Activision, Microsoft or Sony?

I might have a copy.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

 

[Guilty_AI]

So who owns Destiny? Bungie, Activision, Microsoft or Sony?

I think Bungie still. In a blogpost by Jim Ryan he put a lot of emphasis on Bungie remaining an independent developer and multiplat publisher. Bungie itself also said they "remain in charge of our destiny" (linking to a page from 2019 where they said destiny would still belong to them after parting with Activision).

I think they are more interested in their expertise in making GAAS and multiplayer games, probably intending to apply it for Sony's own IPs.

 

[Kokoloko85]

There was a game. Nuts n bolts. Not my problem you missed it

And it wasnt nowhere near as good as the originals

 

[fersnake]

There was a game. Nuts n bolts. Not my problem you missed it

Lol not talking about you. And that was a bad game btw.

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

This industry is a complete and permanent joke!

 

[Old Retro]

Reminds me of how many things companies like Disney and Ford own.

 

[Thirty7ven]

That’s because PlayStation doesn’t need to buy an identity.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Reminds me of how many things companies like Disney and Ford own.

FoMoCo owns Ford, Lincoln and Motorcraft. That’s not much.