Sony is shopping for Bungie, the game studio that created Destiny and Halo

Microsoft is attempting to desire onetime PlayStation figurehead Atomize Bandicoot (and the relaxation of Activision Blizzard) in a deal that might perhaps well rewrite gaming historical previous, and now Sony is hanging attend. On Monday, the firm supplied plans to manufacture Bungie—the creator of Destiny and Halo—for $3.6 billion bucks.

That’s a full lotta Vivid Mud.

We’re within the midst of an intense length of consolidation for the gaming alternate and with Microsoft-owned Bethesda hinting that its upcoming Starfield and Elder Scrolls VI games will most definitely be new to the Xbox and PC, gamers are (rightfully) timid about their favourite multi-platform games disappearing contained within the walled console gardens of their respective owners. Destiny has a wide viewers on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC alike. Fortunately, it looks like that won’t be changing within the near future.

“We remain in impress of our destiny,” Bungie CEO Pete Parsons wrote in a publish asserting the deal. “We are succesful of proceed to independently publish and creatively invent our games. We are succesful of proceed to pressure one, unified Bungie group. Our games will proceed to be where our group is, wherever they capture to play.?”

It looks like Sony is on the same web page.

“That is a crucial step in our method to enlarge the attain of PlayStation to a a lot wider viewers,” Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan acknowledged in an announcement. “We know the manner significant Bungie’s group is to the studio and inquire of forward to supporting them as they proceed to be honest and proceed to grow. Fancy Bungie, our group is core to PlayStation’s DNA, and our shared ardour for the gamer and building one of the very best dilemma to play will now evolve even further.”

We’ll fetch out about if the lip service translates into precise persisted abominable-platform enhance for Destiny, nonetheless if it does, infusing Bungie with cash might perhaps well well abolish the PC journey even higher than it already is. My colleague Michael Crider already delved into why Microsoft shopping for Activision might perhaps well well imply wide issues for PlayStation on the PC and right here’s a solid first step in direction of making that speculation a actuality. Huzzah for the PC being the gaming an identical of Switzerland!

Ironically, both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard owned Bungie within the previous, sooner than the developer splintered off to manipulate its possess destiny as an honest studio. It be significant to marvel if executives there will in the end consume into consideration Bungie to be the proverbial one which got away. Destiny is a wide gain for Sony.

But fright no longer, Master Chief followers. Bungie created Halo attend within the day, nonetheless Microsoft aloof owns the rights to the franchise, so your favourite Covenant-slaying Spartan isn’t in hazard of all at this time defecting to PlayStation. Bungie’s involvement with the series ended with Halo 3 and Halo: Attain, with Microsoft’s homespun 343 Industries handling all Halo duties since.

That you just might’t bid the same for Atomize Bandicoot, though. Uncommon cases indeed.