Sony buys Bungie for $3.6 billion • Eurogamer.net

[ad_1]

Destiny 2 and future games remain cross-platform.

Sony announced today that it will buy Destiny Maker Bungie for $3.6 billion.

The developer said that the Destiny franchise and other future games from Bungie will remain cross-platform.

After the deal is completed, Bungie will be part of Sony Worldwide Studios that can “self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play,” GamesIndustry.biz reported.

“We’ve had a strong partnership with Bungie since the beginning of the Destiny franchise, and I can’t help but officially welcome the studio into the PlayStation family,” said Sony President Jim Ryan.

“This is an important step in our strategy to expand PlayStation’s reach to a much wider audience. We understand how important the Bungie community is to the studio and look forward to supporting them as they remain independent and continue to grow. Like Bungie, our community is at the core of PlayStation’s core business, and our shared passion for the player and building better will now evolve. A place to play more.

In a blog post about the acquisition, Bungie said that the deal won’t affect Destiny’s creative plan until the end of its current supplement (scheduled for 2024), and that the upcoming expansion The Witch Queen won’t contain any platform-exclusives. Destiny 2 features such as cross-save, cross-apps, and companion apps will also not be affected.

After Destiny 2, Bungie said of whether future games would become exclusive to PlayStation: “No. We want the worlds we make to extend to wherever people play games. We will continue to self-publish and be creative, and we will continue to lead one unified Bungie community.”

Today’s announcement comes on the heels of Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard.

In 2020, Eurogamer reported that Bungie discussed a possible acquisition with Microsoft, shortly before the latter bought Bethesda for $7.5 billion.

[ad_2]