The month of January has been an earthquake as far as news about studies is concerned. A few days ago, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Activision, a move that stunned a large number of users and represents exponential growth within Xbox studios. Now, the surprise has come from the other side of the globe, since Sony has announced the purchase of Bungie, studio that created the Halo franchise and is currently working on Destiny.
The purchase of Activision by Microsoft was widely commented on from different parts of the video game sector, especially due to the future that the company’s titles would have in the future, focusing especially on the possible arrival of the company’s games on video game consoles. Sony.
Bungie will remain an independent subsidiary of SIE
Bungie will remain a multiplatform studio with the option to self-publish
Bungie is still maintaining D2, working on Destiny franchise expansion and a new IP
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Sony has announced the purchase of Bungie and clarifies the future of its titles on Xbox
Well, after the announcement of the purchase of Bungie by Sony, it was the Japanese company that wanted to clarify the future of the studio’s games on Xbox consoles. He has done it through a statementwhere it ensures that Bungie will remain a multi-platform studiodespite being part of the PlayStation family.
In this way, it seems that Sony’s move is similar to what was seen with Activision and the Call of Duty franchise, which will continue to arrive (at least for now) on PlayStation consoles. Most likely the Arrival of Bungie games on Xbox It is conditioned to the same happening with Activision titles, but at least for the moment it seems that Sony has announced the purchase of Bungie, everything will continue as before with the creator of Halo.
As we have commented, it is possible that the circumstances change in the future, but according to the official statement of the Japanese company, Bungie games will continue to come out on Xbox.