Sony Has Completed Its $3.7 Billion Deal to Acquire Bungie and Welcome It Into the PlayStation Family
Sony Interactive Entertainment has officially completed a $ 3.7 billion deal to acquire Bungie (the studio behind Destiny and all Halo games up to Halo: Reach) and welcomed the PlayStation family.
PlayStation shared news twitter, “The deal to buy Bungie has ended. Now we can officially say … Welcome to Bungie for the PlayStation family!”
Bungee We also shared a few words to commemorate the opportunity and expressed how excited it was to “join a great team on the PlayStation.”
“We are proud to be officially part of the great PlayStation team. We are excited about the future of the company. We are inspired to bring together players from around the world to build lasting friendships and memories.” Bungie writes. “Every Audacia ad Astra!”
Sony announced in February 2022 that it would buy the bungee for $ 3.6 billion, SEC filing For transactions completed from July 15th, the total amount is stated to be “about $ 3.7 billion”.
When the deal was announced, Bungie will continue to operate as an “independent subsidiary” of SIE and remain a multi-platform studio with the option to “publish at its own expense and reach players who choose to play.” confirmed.
Bungie is currently working hard to support Destiny 2, but there are more plans in the future. Details of these projects haven’t been revealed yet, but the studio has confirmed that Destiny 2 includes Easter eggs that make fun of the next game.
In 2019, Bungie said it would like to release at least one non-Destiny game by 2025. Various job listings suggest that this new IP is a “comedy” and that “capricious characters” may appear.
The acquisition is complete, but Sony has no plans to stop and will buy more studios in the future.
As for the future of Destiny, Bungie shared a roadmap planned after the acquisition of PlayStation, and the studio is reportedly working on Destiny mobile games.
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