PlayStation Acquisitions Aren’t Taking Dev Groups ‘Off the Market’

PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst has stated that latest PlayStation acquisitions aren’t an “arms race” and that Sony isn’t actually taking growth groups off the market. As an alternative, Hulst insists that the corporate helps to stem groups in order that they’ll develop. Hulst made these remarks in an interview with French YouTuber Julien Chieze, throughout which he reiterated that Sony solely acquires studios that matches PlayStation Studios’ tradition “like a glove.”

PlayStation Studios acquisitions will proceed

Sony has beforehand stated in no unsure phrases that it’ll proceed to accumulate builders that match properly into PlayStation Studios. Hulst informed Julien Chieze that Sony was already working with a number of the studios it acquired, and that the rationale for bringing them in-house is that it helps the corporate to “arise a studio a lot quicker and far more rigorously than retaining them exterior.”

“We not too long ago acquired Haven and that’s our first studio in Quebec, first studio in Canada, based by – amongst others – Jade Raymond,” Hulst stated for instance. “We had been actually impressed with their ambition stage, with their artistic imaginative and prescient, and I believe bringing them in-house truly allows us to assist create a studio.”

Other than acquisitions, Sony can also be actively collaborating with exterior studios like FromSoftware.