New PlayStation Banner Theory Implies Interesting Acquisition
PlayStation’s most recent banner highlighted many landmark titles from its first-party developers, such as Insomniac Games’ Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima, Santa Monica Studio’s God of War, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us 2, Housemarque’s Returnal, and Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn.
These banners help identify PlayStation Studios apart from other platform competitors with diverse and iconic mascots who players are particularly familiar with. However, the most recent banner update, which normally subsumes the latest developers and games represented, has only replaced a single title in the lineup. Seen in the first spot on the far left side of PlayStation’s newest banner, fans may notice a game that is familiar to Sony yet seems out of place on one of its first-party banners.
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Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding has replaced PixelOpus’ Concrete Genie on PlayStation’s website banner. Substitutions to which games are represented on PlayStation’s banners are typically made without fanfare, leaving it up to players to notice such a change. But this substitution is interesting to note and a talking point now because spots on PlayStation’s banner are typically reserved for Sony’s first-party developers. Death Stranding was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, but Kojima Productions is not currently a Sony first-party studio.
Such a substitution has since been correlated by fans to a potential acquisition announcement that they believe to be imminent as a result. This is only a rumored theory at this point, though the argument is sound due to PlayStation’s history of banner representations and the fact that Death Stranding’s Kojima Productions is a
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