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[Lunatic_Gamer]

According to the LinkedIn profile of PlayStation Studios' Director of Strategy and Portfolio, Eric McCall, the company has spent a total of $4 billion in the last four years as part of a larger strategy to strengthen its first-party portfolio. It's hard to say which nine studios this refers to, as SCEE has made more than nine acquisitions in the last four years.

• Housemarque
• Bluepoint Games
• Nixxes Software
• Firesprite
• Firewalk Studios
• Fabrik Games (integrated into Firesprite, technically bought by Firesprite while under PlayStation's ownership)
• Valkyrie Entertainment
• Haven Studios
• Neon Koi (formally Savage Game Studios)
• Bungie

In addition, it was reported that Sony had a budget of $11.5 billion for future acquisitions in May of 2024. So, it remains to be seen how the company will use its budget to acquire the studios in the coming years.

PlayStation Has Spent Over $4 Billion on 9 Acquisitions in a Span of Four Years

PlayStation has spent $4 billion over the past four years, acquiring nine studios, with the priciest acquisition being Bungie.

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[adamsapple]

Firewalk Studios

 

[{insert code here}]

Nah, Haven was money well spent!

 

[Mr Moose]

Bungie

There's 3.6 of it.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[Baemono]

7 great acquisitions

 

[Baemono]

I should update my Linkedin profile, I technically prepared documents for big acquisitions as well

 

[near]

A waste of $4 billion.

 

[Humdinger]

 

[Tomofdahook17]

You could have put $200,000,000 of that into a new Uncharted game for 4 years and broke even within the first week if you sold 3 million copies at $70.

With 4 billion as your total budget??? You could have done this for 20 different IP's.

These companies are retarded! I swear.

 

[Physiognomonics]

You could have put $200,000,000 of that into a new Uncharted game for 4 years and broke even within the first week if you sold 3 million copies at $70.

With 4 billion as your total budget??? You could have done this for 20 different IP's.

These companies are retarded! I swear.

This is what happen when the managers are taking over an entertainment company.

 

[Tomofdahook17]

This is what happen when the managers are taking over an entertainment company.

It's just so annoying dude. Like, I know it's more complex than the basic math I'm doing here but as someone who grew up through Sony's PS3 peak I can't help but want that again. That's the best they've ever been and they were doing it with ease. Even most of the PS4's life was like that especially towards the end. Idk what they have been doing this gen.

 

[Gojiira]

There's 3.6 of it.

Honestly this alone shows how great of a steal the others are, Bluepoint,Nixxes,Housemarque all stellar.
With another 11Billion to invest I hope they nab up the rest of Kadokawa and ShiftUp.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[nial]

This is what happen when the managers are taking over an entertainment company.

SIE has always been run by managers, don't be delusional.

 

[Pop]

And Bungie was 90% of that

Playstation overspent on these

 

[semiconscious]

still eagerly awaiting that all-new, non-remake bluepoint game...

Spoiler

not...

 

[SkylineRKR]

The only good acquisitions are the ones that proved themselves already, Bungie excluding. Housemarque was a good Sony asset for a while, as was Bluepoint. Nixxes did some good port work in the past. And Bluepoint, what are they doing since DeS?

 

[llLeonhart]

Bungie and Firesprite were awful investments.