This year we can expect new acquisitions from PlayStation. Sony remains on strategic investment more than 5 billion US dollars (700 billion yen), said CFO Hiroki Totoki.
By the end of last year, Sony had spent almost 1.3 trillion yen, including the purchase of the Bungie studio. The remaining 700 billion yen is planned for this year. Sony allocated this money in 2021 as part of a three-year strategic investment plan. These include efforts to expand the number of subscribers to games and services.
Now just wait to see how much of the remaining $5 billion Sony will spend on acquisitions. What is important is that, according to the CFO, the company is working according to the set plan and will exhaust these funds by the end of the current financial year (by March 2024).
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Bungie’s acquisition cost $3.6 billion. However, last year Sony invested a total of $12 billion. Part of the money went to Haven Studios And wild game studios and will most likely expand existing PlayStation Studios teams as well strengthening PlayStation Plus. Maybe even to the acquisition of the studio ballistic moon. The purchase has not yet been officially announced, but there are a number of hints.
SONY ACQUISITIONS IN RECENT YEARS:
- Nixxes Software (2021), specialists in porting games to PC.
- Bluepoint Games (2021), writers of the Demon’s Souls remake
- Firesprite (2021), PS VR game developers
- Fabrik Games (2021), Firesprite studio support team
- Housemarque (2021) by Returnal
- Valkyrie Entertainment (2021), a support studio, helped inFamous and God of War.
- Haven Studios (2022) under Jade Raymond develops live service games.
- Savage Game Studios (2022), mobile game developers
Source :Indian TV
