yurinka
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So, recent acquisition gave Sony:
-Evo: FGC/eSports strategical positioning for marketing and partnerships
-Housemarque: Arcadey AAA big & small VR friendly games
-Nixxes: PC ports
-Firesprite + Fabrik: AAA & VR games with Liverpool Studio, Evolution and Bizarre Creations (+more) pedigree
-Bluepoint: AAA remakes and new games with Retro Studios, Blizzard (+way more) pedigree
What I think coud be potential next acquisitions of people with a long story of PS exclusives:
-Kadokawa: includes several Japanese publishers and developers, being From Soft one of them. They also have tons of manga, anime and movie IPs and production studios
-ARC System works: fighting games, anime games, working in one of the top grossing PC game ips in the last decade that is specially big in Asia, have multiple teams even if being small
-Quantic Dream: streaming friendly AAA interactive drama
-Kojipro: critically acclaimed bizarre and unique AAA stuff, Kojima is there
-Supermassive: streaming friendly interactive drama AAA horror games
-(As exception this one wouldn't need to have previous relationship with Sony) Some random huge Asian F2P focused mobile and/or PC dev specially big in Asia open to milk Sony IPs there and grow in PC F2P and specially mobile and Asia
-Haven, Firewalk and Deviation: if their first or second AAA MP GaaS 2nd party game gets critically acclaimed and/or performs well in terms of sales/revenue they'd provide pedigree from top AAA IPs (Destiny, CoD BO, AC, etc) and would add to Sony's list AAA MP/GaaS specialized top teams
They are growing their existing studios and acquiring some. Another way of growing is opening new studios.
-Evo: FGC/eSports strategical positioning for marketing and partnerships
-Housemarque: Arcadey AAA big & small VR friendly games
-Nixxes: PC ports
-Firesprite + Fabrik: AAA & VR games with Liverpool Studio, Evolution and Bizarre Creations (+more) pedigree
-Bluepoint: AAA remakes and new games with Retro Studios, Blizzard (+way more) pedigree
What I think coud be potential next acquisitions of people with a long story of PS exclusives:
-Kadokawa: includes several Japanese publishers and developers, being From Soft one of them. They also have tons of manga, anime and movie IPs and production studios
-ARC System works: fighting games, anime games, working in one of the top grossing PC game ips in the last decade that is specially big in Asia, have multiple teams even if being small
-Quantic Dream: streaming friendly AAA interactive drama
-Kojipro: critically acclaimed bizarre and unique AAA stuff, Kojima is there
-Supermassive: streaming friendly interactive drama AAA horror games
-(As exception this one wouldn't need to have previous relationship with Sony) Some random huge Asian F2P focused mobile and/or PC dev specially big in Asia open to milk Sony IPs there and grow in PC F2P and specially mobile and Asia
-Haven, Firewalk and Deviation: if their first or second AAA MP GaaS 2nd party game gets critically acclaimed and/or performs well in terms of sales/revenue they'd provide pedigree from top AAA IPs (Destiny, CoD BO, AC, etc) and would add to Sony's list AAA MP/GaaS specialized top teams
They are growing their existing studios and acquiring some. Another way of growing is opening new studios.
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