The acquisitions just keep ramping up over at PlayStation HQ as the company has now acquired BluePoint Games, which previously worked on Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and the Xbox 360 port of Titanfall.
It's no huge surprise this acquisition has been made, considering the developer has solely been working with PlayStation in recent years. There have been some fantastic remakes such as the recent Demon's Souls, along with some beloved remasters in the form of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection.
The news was announced in a PlayStation Blog, which welcomed the company into the PlayStation family. According to BluePoint Games' president Marco Thrust, becoming a first-party studio "empowers [the] team to raise the quality-bar even further and create even more impactful experiences for the PlayStation community".
But what does this mean for Xbox? Well, there's been rumblings for a long time now that a Metal Gear Solid remake is in the works, with many hoping BluePoint Games would helm it. However, according to Thrush in an interview with IGN, the team is working on something original for their next title.
"Our next project, we're working on original content right now. We can't talk about what that is, but that's the next step in the evolution for us."
It seems the monopoly of collecting game studios is continuing between Microsoft and Sony. After last year's huge announcement that Xbox had acquired ZeniMax Media - resulting in developers such as Bethesda and id Software joining the first-party line-up - news on future acquisitions has been low.
Of course, there have been rumours galore, with them spiralling out of control massively this month. Other companies such as SEGA and Square Enix have entered the conversation, but don't seem to hold any weight at present. We doubt Xbox is done bringing developers into its first-party fold, but we'll just have to wait and see what the future has in store.
Either way, congrats to Sony on acquiring BluePoint Games, along with Firesprite earlier this month. No doubt the future of PlayStation, just like Xbox, is looking bright with some promising titles on the way.
How do you feel about PlayStation acquiring BluePoint Games? Let us know in the comments below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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Great Dev and it makes sense for them. Better than Netflix, Amazon or Tencent buying them.
We knew this already though.
Was just a matter of time.
Great porting/remaster dev.
Yeah, this was a surprise to no one
Seems to put to bed the MGS remake rumours at least
Meh, Bluepoint has pretty much been a Sony developer for years now, so I don't feel like it hurts the industry as a whole - it just locks them into Sony's ecosystem indefinitely.
Hope there future projects are great. They have been basically Sony first party forever
I think that makes sense. Happy to see them be able to create their own game from scratch too!
Great news for Sony but this news has been coming for months, infact they accidentally announced it a few months ago
Awesome! Maybe one day we'll get MGS remakes. BUT BETTER NOT BE BEFORE I GET A PS5! I used caps to better articulate my passion for MGS
I didn't know Purexbox turned into Pushsquare
This was predictable. Yet, still, from a tactical standpoint I don't get this move. BluePoint already was very Sony friendly and made exlcusives for them. So, all this did was Sony burning some money. Money actually better spent on a good developer that is unbiased/neutral.
Wouldn't this be a Duopoly or a Triopoly if you throw in Nintendo (although they buy at a slower rate)?
@lokozar well Nintendo also locked up Next Level and they only made games for Nintendo. I think everyone’s worried about Tencent, Google, etc swooping in. I’m still surprised MS didn’t try to buy Splash Damage. That could be in the works…
Why exactly are we getting PlayStation-only news on PXB? IS Sammy going to write about Obsidian now?
@Iokozar I assume because it's already Sony friendly and Sony's fallen behind on productive teams compared to MS' buying spree, it was an easy way to get a new studio to expand for new output that was already "plugged into" their processes. Not so much about getting the projects so much as getting a studio that's already up to speed like an existing internal studio to build out.
Good luck to Bluepoint and look forward ti playing their next game on my ps5
Sensible move from Sony. They've been a great fit at theirs for a while now so the buyout just makes total sense. Kind of like Microsoft and Playground Games. Securing the level of quality for the long term.
As someone who is a huge fan of Bluepoint games I'll be playing their stuff when I pick up a PS5 at some point. Competition has to have competition at some point.
It makes sense, they don't invest resources in backwards compatibility so they get one of the best remasters studios.
Honestly I thought the deal had fallen through after all this time.
I wonder what happened to delay this announcement so long.
Good purchase Sony.
@mousieone Isn't Google giving Stadia up? They shut down their exclusives studio.
@Fenbops So true. At least under PS they are part of a real game company.
@BlueOcean This is more of a general worry in the long term rather than an immediate one. There is always worry that other tech giants like Apple, Google, Amazon or the Chinese companies sweep in and swallow many developers, putting them to work on content that is the best money-maker ( all sorts of F2P and BR and else ) rather than projects with better and more unique character and identity.
@mousieone
Well, I don't get some of Nintendo's moves either. Anyways, Sony buying Splash Damage would have been a tacitcally interesting move.
@BrilliantBill I know what you mean but I think that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are safe because of national laws. Otherwise, China would try to own the whole world (scary). I don't see Google as a gaming giant, they tried with Stadia but it's not in their DNA. They shut Google Videos and Google People/Plus down and purchased YouTube but both are American companies. Google is best at advertising and data traffic. They fail everything else. Tencent, yes, they will buy some gaming companies if it's legally possible or all parties agree. In regard to Epic Games, they only have a minority stake.
@BlueOcean I agree with the back compat thing but harsh on them to just call them a remasters studio. They are a quality dev. Next project is completely new so be keen to see what they do.
Indeed they have done remasters to date and we all hate the remaster fad but they nailed all of them.
@BlueOcean Tencent are a stain on the gaming community. Their buying power is depressing.
These type of acquisitions that don't hinder other platforms directly are cool to me. As long as no one touches Square, Capcom, Sega, Rockstar, etc. I think the gaming community would be good.
@Jaxx420 I didn't say that it's "one of the best remasters studios" as something pejorative so no idea why you are so defensive.
@lokozar they tried. Tencent outbid them.
@BlueOcean not entirely. Regardless, Acquisitions take months of negotiations so this would have been in the works for quite some time.
@BlueOcean I don't know why people assume that Google gave up on gaming because they closed their 1st party team. Maybe they just changed their strategy and decided to purchase a major publisher, instead of building their own from the ground up.
We haven't heard any news from Stadia recently, hence you could be right, maybe they're cutting their losses... or maybe they are the ones who are actually buying Take-Two and we will know about it once the deal is done.
@Magabro No, I don't think (and didn't say) that they have given Stadia up completely.
@mousieone Who knows.
@mousieone
That so? I’m strangely amused by that.
@lokozar yeah Sony was in a bidding war over Leylou and Leylou owns Splash Damage so that would have been interesting to say the least. The acquisition was finalized before Gears Tactics came out.
No affect on Xbox. This was an already "1st party studio". Good for them on having job security now.
Demons Souls Remake is one of the best remakes out there and so is SotC Remake so i'm shocked Sony got them before someone else did, hopefully the MGS remake rumour comes true next.
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