They could up the monthly fee to say $20 to include day one exclusive access for that particular tier.
Sony has purchased Bungie - Their Final Shape
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We keep hearing it because the gaming media desperately wants more console war nonsense, PSNow was a thing several years before game pass announced and it's always just been a side service. It has evolved over time, now you can download some of the games now that it includes PS4 games which it didn't at the start and it's a lot less expensive now. Sony has said on more than one occasion that they won't be putting their AAA games on any kind of service day one because they make a lot of money on those launches, they sell millions of copies at full price and a subscription service wouldn't make up for that. The one constant in every rumor I've read about the rebranding of PSNow is it'll either be a combo of PS+ and PSNow or that they'll offer larger selections of older titles but every one of those rumors also said no day one launches of new games.
I didn't expect or try to make the point. Kerosene said putting Destiny on PS Now and COD on GP without exclusivity would be a huge deal. I disagreed and Kerosene ignored it as usual and others jumped in.
Putting new versions on those platforms without exclusivity is a fairly big deal, you aren't going to pull a ton of players over from the other platform, but you'll likely get more of your own player base giving it a shot than would have otherwise and with all of the microtransactions they sell for these games that could be a decent amount of money. MS execs said that Halo Infinite has had 20 million people play it, it wouldn't have been anywhere near that if they had to pay for the game and they didn't get any PlayStation converts for a Halo game, that being said people playing it vs people spending extra money on it are two different things and they said nothing about how much money people spent on microtransactions or how much money was brought in by that title specifically.
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Sony offers Bungie employees $1.2 billion retention incentive plan
Sony is offering Bungie employees a $1.2 billion incentive program in an effort to keep them at the company following the buyout.
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Sony offers Bungie employees $1.2 billion retention incentive plan
Sony is offering Bungie employees a $1.2 billion incentive program in an effort to keep them at the company following the buyout.
So essentially the purchase price is 2.4B and 1.2B is essentially for RSUs as a carrot to try to keep the existing staff in place. Pretty damn solid move there if you ask me.
Console wars are now about which multibillion dollar purchase is the best value. Corporate cheerleading at its finest.
He's spending too much time on twitter or not understanding why this was done.
I agree with the doesn't make sense opinion, but Bungie must be pulling in more than $200 million annually. That likely do that or more from Eververse. Then you have the yearly expansions that are like $40 each even with only a million buyers that is like $400 million.
There has never been an video game analyst more wrong than Michael Pachter. He is wrong so much he is practically a meme
I just want to say, looking back at that thread on that forum... quite interesting. Seems like someone inadvertently predicted the Activision buyout, loosely connected Sony's acquisition of Bungie and then the thread was locked for being "DEBUNKED."
[Speculation] Bungie will once again be involved with the Halo Franchise/co-owners of I.P. with Microsoft.
Bookmark this thread for future reference. After the handling of the Halo franchise by 343 Studios(mass departures, uncertain direction/future, delays, etc) for Microsoft I have a very strong feeling their have been "discussions" between Bungie and Microsoft to come back aboard the I.P. that...www.neogaf.com
Working with instead?
[Speculation] Bungie will once again be involved with the Halo Franchise/co-owners of I.P. with Microsoft
After the handling of the Halo franchise by 343 Studios(mass departures, uncertain direction/future, delays, etc) for Microsoft I have a very strong feeling their have been "discussions" between Bungie and Microsoft to
come back aboard the I.P. that Bungie created: HALO. "Feelers sent out?" "Cross promotion discussions?"
This will either come in the form of buying the I.P. back outright from Microsoft(with agreements in place that MS will still have HALO games for their console/PC platforms day and date with future releases) or a "partial sale/co-ownership of
the I.P" where Bungie will make the Halo series available to other platforms from Sony, Nintendo and Nvidia. My gut instinct is that we'll see a "co-ownership/partnership" between Bungie and Microsoft.
Let's face it, Halo has floundered under 343 along with Microsoft's management of the I.P.
Halo needs fresh, experienced developers along with management to help guide it into the future. What better company to do that then the I.P's creator in Bungie?
P.S. Wouldn't be surprised at all to hear/read about a delay of the single player Halo Infinite Campaign until Summer 2022.
Let me add that Dec Destiny 2 DLC will have Halo content.
Just wait 5 years until she get booted and come out telling the internet how misogynistic the working place is.Engaged and a new job
From what current and former devs, like Marcus Lehto, have mentioned before it seems like they’ll stick to GAAS games
maybe some will leave to start a new studio or maybe Sony could allow some to test the waters inside to see if they can splinter something new….
Where's is that same energy from when this happened to studios MS bought? MS were evil and scummy. Sony, nobody bats an eye.
She's the only person who's said anything so far, could just be the project she was working on is coming to an end. They are still hiring for over 50 positions at Bungie so this doesn't look to be some large layoff situation.