Yesterday, the video game industry earth shook when Microsoft announced it was buying ZeniMax and Bethesda for $7.5 billion.
First, Sony, while a huge player in the video game console and development space, is in no financial position to make a deal anywhere close to as big as this Microsoft purchase of Bethesda.
Second, Sony is in a strong enough position with its first party studios and games where it…really doesn’t need to “respond” with some sort of purchase of its own.
For the first part of this, I think some people have lost track of the scale of these companies.
PlayStation beat Xbox in the last console generation in terms of sales, and yet Sony and Microsoft are not remotely equivalent companies in terms of size.
So no, all this talk of Sony needing some high-profile studio purchase to match Microsoft is nonsense.
Pick up my sci-fi novels Herokiller and Herokiller 2, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. »
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