Microsoft might have purchased someone, maybe

Sony - "fuck you, we'll just buy Bungie then!"

I’m sure glad the days of cross-platforming is dying off and we’re going back to proper format wars. They were always a hoot.

Statement on the Bungie site is insistent they remain self published and creatively independent and future projects won't be PlayStation exclusive.

Although I never trust these statements, that could technically just mean they'll release on PC as well, not Xbox etc.


Hmmmmmmm, all very interesting, and odd.

This bit in the "shared vision" Q&A makes it sound like there's no PS exclusives in the foreseeable future.



"Anywhere people play games" makes it sound like more than PS and maybe PC. At least Xbox as well. Would be interesting if they made something for Nintendo as well, be it the current Switch or their next console.

Of course, plans can change, but in the meantime it sounds as if they're not doing exclusives. Big daddy Sony just makes more money.

Kind of wish one of the two were willing to buy a Japanese studio though. I think MS has been trying but probably gets laughed out of the room every time, and current Sony doesn't seem to care about Japanese games at all, seeing how they closed every studio but Polyphony.

That money for Bungie starts to make the Bethesda deal look like a real bargain!

And as a Nintendo fan primarily, its like nothing has changed. Hehe.

I do wonder if these two will snap up older companies as a way of securing retro libraries. At the end of the day they're only really buying IP. The talent behind these teams will all move on in time.

Reddit thread filled with "Killzone, but Bungie".

That wouldn't be bad.

Didn't I play this on PC way back when?

Anyway, I would love to play that. I remember it as The Matrix meets Deus Ex, it surely isn't as awesome as I remember it (what is), but still.

I'm stupid. It's Bungie; I played it on a Mac.

Was listening to a podcast today and their thought was that these acquisitions aren't so much to keep games off other platforms but more defensive moves to protect their markets against companies like tencent and Apple should they become interested.

Certainly an angle I hadn't considered.

I think he may have named Amazon as well but I didn't want to list them in case I remembered incorrectly.

Jesus.