Sony has more studio acquisitions planned, says PlayStation's Jim Ryan
techradar.comSony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO, Jim Ryan, has said that the company has more studio acquisitions planned, over and above those that have already been announced in 2021 and 2022.
Ryan discussed the acquisitions in a recent appearance on the PlayStation podcast (via VGC), saying, “We’re in a really good place with PlayStation Studios right now and have been for the past few years. The critical success and the commercial success of the games that they’ve been making […] that has given us permission to invest heavily in content creation.”
Ryan went on to add, “We’re growing our studios organically and we’re growing through acquisition. We acquired five studios during the course of 2021, we’re in discussions with Bungie and we have more planned. This is getting us into a cycle, a virtuous cycle, where success begets success.”
Sony’s most recent acquisition of Haven Studios was announced only last month. That was the second major acquisition of 2022 for the company, preceded by the acquisition of Destiny creator, Bungie, in January. Even before that, throughout 2021 Sony acquired five studios: Valkyrie Entertainment, Housemarque, Bluepoint, Firesprite, and Nixxes.
This isn’t the first time Ryan has been pretty up front about Sony’s intentions around snapping up studios. Following the announcement of the company’s intention to acquire Bungie in January 2022, for instance, he told GamesIndustry.biz, «We should absolutely expect more. We are by no means done. With PlayStation, we have a long way to go.”
It feels like a pretty busy, future-gazing time for Sony at the moment, with these studio acquisitions being a big part of laying the groundwork for that future. Though we don't know which studios Sony has its eyes
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