More layoffs at Bungie, SIE taking control, spinning out new action game studio, etc.

[Gizmo_Duck]

First, we are deepening our integration with Sony Interactive Entertainment, working to integrate 155 of our roles, roughly 12%, into SIE over the next few quarters. SIE has worked tirelessly with us to identify roles for as many of our people as possible, enabling us together to save a great deal of talent that would otherwise have been affected by the reduction in force.

Second, we are working with PlayStation Studios leadership to spin out one of our incubation projects – an action game set in a brand-new science-fantasy universe – to form a new studio within PlayStation Studios to continue its promising development.

Jeff Grubb talked about this, and according to him this is Bungie being fully integrated into PlayStation Studios

39:40 at the VOD link here

 

[Rekkapryde]

Founders ran off with the bag.

These nikkaz cost us Factions.

 

[Jaguar93]

Why did Sony buy them again

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

They just released a expansion that D2 players gloated about only for this to happen.

This fukking industry man....

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Why did Sony buy them again

The same reason the other guys bought 80 percent of the gaming industry

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

i honestly think bungie under sony management is the best course of action

 

[Rekkapryde]

i honestly think bungie under sony management is the best course of action

Factions died because of these mufukkaz. I'd put them on the game as punishment.

 

[gurf]

The same reason the other guys bought 80 percent of the gaming industry

It’s pretty obvious this was a reactionary move to combat M$ buying spree.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

It’s pretty obvious this was a reactionary move to combat M$ buying spree.

Its crazy how I was listening to a wrestling podcast and went down a rabbit hole about the Time Warner/AOL merger.

Hollywood Flashback: Time Warner, AOL Entered a Doomed $182 Billion Alliance 20 Years Ago

Within a few months, the economy fell into recession, the dot-com bubble burst and the deal was being called "the worst merger in history."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

History keeps repeating, just different cast members and industries

 

[Jaguar93]

Kill Factions bruhs

 

[Canon]

the Sony takeover is here

cancel that Marathon xbox version now

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Yeah, i think sony will do a better job managing them then they have. They over hired like crazy.

Allowing them to be indepdent never made sense to me to begin with.

 

[bigdaddy88]

Here come all the destiny 2 content creators with their melo drama videos of what is going on bungie? is this the end of D2?

 

[daze23]

Why did Sony buy them again

probably part of Jim Ryan's GAAS push

 

[Pressure]

God damn. Bought these nikkas in and immediately put them on a PIP.