Reaction: Sony’s Bungie Buyout Means Little for PS5, PS4 Fans Right Now

Destiny unknown.

Well, here we are again – another domino has dropped in the unstoppable march towards corporate consolidation. This time, though, our team has won: Bungie, the legendary creator of Halo and Destiny, is a PlayStation Studio! Except it’s not, but it also kinda is. The industry is weird these days so you’re going to have to stick with us: perhaps the best comparison here is Mojang, which operates under the Xbox Game Studios framework, but remains a mostly independent entity in the ever-growing Microsoft machine, meaning Minecraft remains a fully multiformat franchise. Are you following?

This news comes just weeks after the Team in Green’s near-$70 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard – shots fired, we hear your scream. Except, again, not really – this deal has apparently been rumbling for around six months, and PlayStation boss Jim Ryan was able to sign the $3.6 billion cheque before rival Phil Spencer could arrive. That’s according to Games Beat scribe Jeff Grubb apparently, who hypothesises a bidding war may have occurred behind-the-scenes. We wouldn’t be surprised!

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