Sony varovainen uusien kehittäjien hankkimisessa

Elokuussa Sony kävi ostoksilla, ja hankki itselleen Spider-Manin tehneen Insomniac Gamesin. huhuilujen mukaan Sony olisi ollut kiinnostunut myös kotimaisesta Remedysta, mutta ilmeisesti tässä huhussa ei ole perää.

Playstationin pomo Jim Ryan paljasti Games Industrylle, että studioiden ostaminen on kallista, ja että moiset hankinnat tehdään varovaisesti ja harkiten.

"We are always looking, but we are careful about who we look at and talk to. Buying studios right now is a very expensive undertaking. It is most definitely a seller's market. There is room for us to do more in that area, but we have to make sure that the company is right. The integration side of things... which is a boring business thing to talk about, but the world is littered with illustrations of that going catastrophically wrong post-acquisition.

So we have to have confidence around that. It has to sit well with our portfolio. It's a very different world to the one when we acquired Guerrilla in 2005. You need to exercise a great deal of attention."