Games Inbox: Why Sony bought Bungie, Nintendo buying Capcom, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus difficulty

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The Wednesday Inbox asks whether Nintendo will join the current acquisition wars, as a reader enjoys the Guardians Of The Galaxy game.

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Multiple reasons So what is the actual reason for Sony to purchase Bungie? Why pay £2.7 billion and get nothing exclusive? Well, nothing that’s obvious in the foreseeable future? All seems a bit odd to me.

The only positive I could see is if Bungie and PlayStation studios collaborate to bring back a shooter such as SOCOM/Killzone/Resistance using the Destiny engine? As Destiny’s gunplay is second to none.

Besides that, I cannot see the point of this acquisition.Stew

GC: Keeping them out of the hands of Microsoft, who would undoubtedly put them to work on Halo, seems one obvious reason. There’s also the official reason, that Sony want them to help with live service games in general. It seems to be a variety of reasons and there’s every chance their current stance on exclusivity could change over time.

Plan BHere’s a theory about why Sony bought Bungie: not only to keep them out the hands of Microsoft but to hold some cards themselves in the pre-emptive exclusivity stakes. Years down the line, if Microsoft wants to make Call Of Duty an exclusive, it’ll be with the threat that Sony will make Destiny an exclusive.

Destiny isn’t as popular as Call Of Duty year-on-year but it is the sort of game as a service that Microsoft would be sad to lose. Just a theory.Owen Pile (NongWen – PSN ID)

Bigger fish RE: big companies buying up small game makers. I think as long as we still get to play their game, and the fact there will be more money to invest and more people involved, hopefully we should get better games quicker.

As long as they