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Sony buy Bungie for $3.6B!!!

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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion

But it's not to be exclusive..  Bungie maintains almost all of it's independence.  I think this is much more about Sony helping Bungie develop other other media for Destiny (TV, Movies, Books, etc)while Bungie helps Sony develop more than "walking simulators" (ok, I thought that was funny, but those PS only single player games like Last of Us, God of War, Horizion Zero Dawn are great!) in their eco system.

Some folks think that this is part of the larger "reset" of the publishing system where Sony and MS buy a bunch of stuff, folks leave and start new studios and develop new ideas.  I'd like that for sure.

Looking at the various reports and press releases, it seems like Sony is going to play ball with being multi platform.  It's kind of what I think Xbox will do with the Activision catalogue.  Keep them multiplatform, and collect your 30% on each sale.  At the end of the day, both MS and Sony want to sell software and collect their piece of the pie.  Game Pass is still a great value, and I think those subscription models are going to be key moving forward.

The issue for Sony is that they are just a MUCH smaller company than MS and don't have near enough cash to spend like Windows-Daddy can provide for MS.  I'm not sure how their service will compare.  But if there's a PC plan for it....oh boy I might have to think really hard about it so I can go back and play all of those fantastic games...

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3 hours ago, SOJA said:

You still playing Destiny 2 D-Dave?

I've recently gotten back into it hard. 

Yep, been playing regularly...forever??

I've been usually doing my weekly bounties for a few of the main NPCs to gather Bright Dust.  I dabble in the new dungeon, Grasp of Avarice, which is really fun.  A dude in my clan and I went through with very limited understanding of wtf to do.  We made it to the boss room, but I had MASSIVE wife agro for spending four-ish hours bumbling around in there.  It's easy with three and someone with some knowledge, but for two morons, it was a lot of work.

God knows how folks solo flawless it...Way better than me!

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