Sony boss says more PlayStation acquisitions to come after Bungie deal

Just yesterday, Sony announced its acquisition of Bungie, the developer behind the earlier Halo installments and the Destiny duology, in a staggering $3.6 billion USD deal. Not only does the deal have an element of surrealness to it, but it also comes mere weeks after Microsoft’s plan to purchase Activision Blizzard blew up in the news and on social media. There still exists plenty of reasons to see Microsoft’s acquisition as an overall net positive, at least for the near future, but with yet another major acquisition occurring so soon afterward, it seems that the rate of corporate consolidation in the gaming industry has increased to an alarming degree. And as it turns out, Sony has still not finished building its corporate empire, as CEO Jim Ryan teased that we can “expect more” acquisitions moving forward.   What else did he say? According to Ryan, both Sony and Bungie arranged this deal over the course of “the past five or six months,” so…