Yesterday, we heard the company behind PlayStation – the tech giant, Sony – is purchasing Destiny developer Bungie in an earth-shaking $3.6 billion deal. But, as with the seismic Microsoft/Activision acquisition that took place at the start of January, news of one industry giant eating up another has left us with more questions than answers.
So far, there a few key things we know: first up – and it’s a big one – Bungie’s future games won’t be PlayStation exclusive. “We want the worlds we are creating to extend to anywhere people play games,” Bungie’s Joe Blackburn and Justin Truman explained, fairly explicitly, in a blog post.
In an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan noted that “PlayStation is starting to go multiplatform, you’ve seen that. We have an aggressive road map with live services. And the opportunity to work with, and particularly learn from, the brilliant and talented people from Bungie… that is going to considerably accelerate the journey we find ourselves on.”
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