PlayStation’s Jim Ryan says that Bungie deal is all about live services

As you probably know by now, Sony have purchased Bungie for $3.6 billion and the PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has just spoken on that matter.

He gave an extensive interview to GameIndustry.biz where he explained the reasoning for this deal: “We are starting to go multiplatform. We have an aggressive road map with live services. And the opportunity to work with, and particularly learn from, the brilliant and talented people from Bungie… that is going to considerably accelerate the journey we find ourselves on. Philosophically, this isn’t about pulling things into the PlayStation world. This is about building huge and wonderful new worlds together.”

“I would back us to do [live-service games] ourselves, but when you have the potential to have a partner like Bungie who has been there, done it all before, learned the lessons, and have got this wonderful, brilliant team who is there and has the potential to help us… we think we can take something that would have taken a certain number of years, and significantly decrease the time it will take to get it right.”

“With PlayStation, we have a long way to go. I will personally be spending a lot of my time with Pete and the team at Bungie, helping make sure that everything beds down right and that autonomy means autonomy. But elsewhere in the organization, we have many more moves to make.”

This isn’t the only acquisition that PlayStation made in 2021. They already claimed Valkyrie Entertainment, Nixxes, Firesprite, Bluepoint, and Housemarque to name just a few. The Bungie acquisition kicked off 2022 with style for Sony, that’s for sure, but Ryan says that they’re not done yet – “We should absolutely expect more. We are by no means done.”