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1/31/2022 9:24:34 PM
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Sony Acquiring Bungie is Not the Same as Microsoft Acquiring Bethesda

Everyone's freaking out, some even after reading the FAQ where Bungie assures that everything will stay cross-platform with no exclusives. People thinking that in the future they'll change their minds and make Destiny a PS exclusive. Because why else would Sony buy Bungie right? Well, let me tell you why and why they won't make it exclusive using a basic thought process - logic. Microsoft can buy Bethesda and make it's properties exclusive because it is easy to do so with that company. It's biggest IP's are single player games that simply play on your own device, isolated from other devices and certainly from other consoles. So it's easy to just not release them on other consoles. Destiny is not a singleplayer game. Rather it is a multi-console, cross-platform game with tens of millions of dollars invested into developing a system where that is possible and works. For a publisher to make it exclusive would waste that investment and cost a significant amount of money to undo. Which they wouldn't want to do anyway because... A large percentage of Destiny players are on other platforms. Millions of players. And each of these players, just like PS players, pay about a hundred bucks a year to play new Destiny content. That adds up to a buttload of money, enough that it wouldn't be in Bungie or Sony's interest to cut off that massive revenue. The extra money that Sony would make from PS exclusivity provably wouldn't even add up to that and Sony knows that, they're not dumb. So why would Sony buy Bungie? The same reason any pair of companies comes together. Share in resources and in turn share in profits, and Bungie has some BIG profits. Never to mention that Bungie is looking to go into other forms of media and Sony just happen to have a film studio handy who will also benefit from helping to produce Destiny film content, (which I will stipulate may be platform exclusive in its release. I don't know, does Sony have its own streaming service?). As for exclusive items and strikes and stuff in Destiny, I would expect them to keep their word, at the very least until The Final Shape is wrapped up. No point pissing off those customers on other devices when they make big profits without exclusives anyway. Future titles and IP's are also apparently multi-platform which I'm guessing might mean they've already put the development into making them for other platforms. I wouldn't be too surprised if someday they make a PS exclusive but that's not a big deal really. It's probably for a franchise we haven't even heard of yet.
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  • Edited by kellygreen45: 2/1/2022 7:11:08 PM
    Good post....but I think the truth is even simpler than that...and its hiding in plain sight. People can't see it because they've become so cynical and assume that they are always being lied to or manipulated in some way (sound approach to take when dealing with politicians, but life as a whole is more complicated than that). [b]By buying Bungie, now Sony OWNS the media rights to Destiny outright. So they are free to build an entire cinematic/multi-media universe around it. [/b] ...and Bungie has HANDED them a Universe that is the video gaming equivalent of MIDDLE-EARTH. A universe that is so well-conceived, so richly and deeply structured...that it is an potentially ENDLESS fountain of story telling. They could go on for DECADES just filling in the BACKSTORY of the Destiny Universe (like Disney is right now with Star Wars). Sony could wind up making so much money off of that, that $3.6 billion startes to look like an incredible bargain.... ...and if Bungie's owners got paid in Sony STOCK or options? They could also be looking at a HUGE windfall as Sony's stock goes up in value. Which is why "creative independence" suddenly became a lot less attractive as a principled stand. Like you said, I think just seeing this thing in terms of the sort of video game acquisition that MS made in buying up Bethesda, is to miss the forest for the trees. I think we are looking down the barrel of something MUCH bigger than that. Not only is it not in Sony's interests to do anything to alienate Destiny's player base, doing so would be counterproductive to what I think their real goals are.

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