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[hououinkyouma00]

Sony/SIE need more Japanese and Asian studios, not Western FPS-centric ones. At least in terms of balanced taste that would appeal to me.

Also MachineGames doesn't work on the Quake or DOOM titles; that's iD Software. MachineGames focus on Wolfenstein, and I don't think that IP's likely worth the cost of purchase when SIE have stuff like SOCOM, Resistance, and Kill Zone right there (all of which carry more sway with longtime PS players and would get at least comparable (if not more) reception from players at large).



They already have one. It's called Bungie.

Fix Bungie up.



So would Bungie, if they got fixed up right.

Bungie is a shell of what they were. Bungie today is not the Bungie that made Marathon of old, Halo 1-3/ODST/Reach, or Destiny 1. They obviously don't care about single player games and I doubt they have the true talent to do it anyways.

Machine Games is much more capable

 

[xrnzaaas]

Machine Games are first-person perspective devs, they couldn't even make Indy full tpp and use that hq Harrison Ford model outside of cutscenes. How would that work with Sony's tpp action-adventure (with sidekick) template?

 

[bender]

I've always found Machine Games output to be lackluster. They'd fit right in with this iteration of Sony's first party studios.

 

[Varteras]

I've always found Machine Games output to be lackluster. They'd fit right in with this iteration of Sony's first parry studios.

 

[SplunkyMunkey]

Sony/SIE need more Japanese and Asian studios, not Western FPS-centric ones. At least in terms of balanced taste that would appeal to me.

Also MachineGames doesn't work on the Quake or DOOM titles; that's iD Software. MachineGames focus on Wolfenstein, and I don't think that IP's likely worth the cost of purchase when SIE have stuff like SOCOM, Resistance, and Kill Zone right there (all of which carry more sway with longtime PS players and would get at least comparable (if not more) reception from players at large).



They already have one. It's called Bungie.

Fix Bungie up.



So would Bungie, if they got fixed up right.

Actually they might not have made quake but they do and could create quake if the ip was brought they did do Quake: Dimension of the Past

 

[larrybrady]

What was the last commercial hit Machine Games had? Indie game doesn't cite numbers on wiki, so I assume failed to meet expectations?

A.i overview says 500,000 on ps5,and 475,00 on steam,however true or not that is,even if it's off by 20%,it's still not great

 

[xanaum]

I can't think of anything this studio has that Sony doesn't already have.

Now, if they were acquiring ID Software, that'd be a whole different story.

 

[LordOcidax]

Bullshit… Sony is not going to buy games studios any time soon.