Rumor: The Upcoming Sony Acquisition is Bigger Than Kojima Productions
Though Sony has acquired some major game development studios over the past couple of months, such as Bungie itself, the company behind Destiny. Sources, however, claim that Sony is aiming to conclude yet another acquisition in the near future, and it's apparently going to make waves in the industry.
Specifically, it was Jeff Grubb who said that Sony's next acquisition would be among the biggest ones yet, and the most widespread notion at the time was that Sony was targeting Hideo Kojima's own studio, Kojima Productions. Revising these claims, Grubb is now saying that it's definitely not Kojima Productions after all, but there's more to it than that.
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It's widely known by now that Hideo Kojima himself denied the acquisition, and Grubb is further underlining this by saying that Sony is aiming for something bigger than Kojima Productions after all. By now, Kojima Productions had only launched one major release ever since Kojima went independent, so the studio's portfolio remains rather slim even though it's actually a major player in the industry. For Grubb to claim that Sony has got its sight set higher, the acquisition ought to be substantial indeed.
The idea that Sony might acquire Kojima Productions didn't come out of nowhere, granted, as members of the community pointed out that not only did Kojima himself have numerous successful projects released in cooperation with Sony, but that Death Stranding itself got published by Sony Interactive Entertainment in the first place. This, of course, isn't the case, but it was the best theory anybody could come up with.
Sony's «really big» studio acquisition has been a known quantity for some time now or, at least, the notion that the company is
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