Last week, Microsoft lastly closed the deal on its huge $69 billion acquisition of Call of Duty writer Activision Blizzard. This signifies that quite a lot of the writer’s studios and IPs now relaxation beneath the Xbox household banner, leaving fundamental competitor PlayStation a little bit of a difficult spot. According to 1 analyst, Sony is “beneath strain to react” to the acquisition by probably making an enormous acquisition of its personal.
Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis expects PlayStation to make large investments and acquisitions of its personal within the close to future as a response to the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal. “I anticipate additional investments and acquisitions for PlayStation, together with a big one that may transfer the needle for them in a significant means,” stated Harding-Rolls to GamesIndustry.biz.
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Big firms like Take-Two Interactive appear to be on the desk for Sony to amass says Midia Research analyst Karol Severin, although that appears impossible as the price of buying such a big studio – particularly with the income introduced in by the Grand Theft Auto collection alone – could be fairly an expensive buy, even for Sony. Others counsel that resulting from Sony’s sturdy relationship with Final Fantasy writer Square Enix, that seems to be a extra reasonable acquisition. Severin acknowledged:
“It might be more and more tough to compete with Microsoft on video games solely. The solely response for Sony on the games-only facet could be shopping for one thing actually large like Take-Two, however that’s unlikely.”
As it stands, Microsoft at present holds essentially the most variety of builders and publishers beneath its belt when in comparison with Sony’s first-party PlayStation studios. While the deal continues to be recent, we’ve but to see what Xbox does with its newly acquired expertise. So far, Xbox’s main acquisition of Bethesda has delivered combined outcomes with Arkane’s Redfall bombing earlier this yr however Starfield is rather a lot stronger for many critics and followers.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
