{"id":10579,"date":"2022-01-31T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1576640"},"modified":"2022-01-31T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:42:08","slug":"sony-buys-bungie-destiny-team-will-be-joining-the-playstation-family","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/sony-buys-bungie-destiny-team-will-be-joining-the-playstation-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony buys Bungie, Destiny team \u201cwill be joining the PlayStation family\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rob Leane\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 31 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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In a surprising move, Sony is acquiring Bungie for $3.6 billion USD (which is over \u00a32.6 billion GBP). Or to put that another way, the company behind the PlayStation consoles is buying the company behind the Destiny video-game franchise.<\/p>\n

The news was broken on Twitter<\/a> by Jason Schreier, one of the most respected gaming journalists on the planet, who currently works for Bloomberg<\/a> and previously worked at Kotaku.<\/p>\n

\u201cSony is buying Bungie, the maker of Destiny,\u201d Schreier wrote in one Tweet.<\/p>\n

He added in another post, \u201cBoth parties did a decent job keeping this secret \u2014several Bungie staff learned it from me this morning as I tried to break the news. Bungie held an all-hands meeting at 10am PT to tell everyone at the same time as it went public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has now confirmed the news, stating in a PlayStation Blog post<\/a>, \u201cI am happy to announce Bungie will be joining the PlayStation family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan was quick to confirm, \u201cBungie will remain an independent and multi-platform studio and publisher,\u201d a statement that quickly puts to bed any fears that the Destiny franchise will be ripped from non-Sony platforms.<\/p>\n

It sounds like the Destiny games will remain on Xbox consoles, too.<\/p>

Bungie has a storied history of acquisitions and high-profile agreements, and this Sony deal is the latest in a long line of massive deals.<\/p>\n

It all started in 1991 \u2013 Bungie was founded in that year and had early successes with game franchises Marathon and Myth.<\/p>\n

Bungie was acquired by Microsoft in 2000 and created the Halo franchise that helped launch the original Xbox console. In 2007, Bungie split from Microsoft, although the two companies continued to collaborate until their final project, 2010\u2019s Halo Reach, was finished.<\/p>\n

Bungie went on to sign a 10-year publishing deal with Activision \u2013 this resulted in Bungie developing Destiny and Destiny 2, a pair of massively popular online shooter games in the sci-fi genre, both of which were originally published by Activision. Bungie ended its deal with Activision in 2020, taking over the publishing reins on the Destiny franchise itself.<\/p>\n

And now comes the news that Sony is buying Bungie, which adds another layer of intrigue to this ever-growing tapestry that is the company\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Sony\u2019s Jim Ryan added in his blog post: \u201cI have spent a lot of time with Pete Parsons, Jason Jones, and the Bungie management team to develop the right relationships where they will be fully backed and supported by Sony Interactive Entertainment and enabled to do what they do best \u2014 build incredible worlds that captivate millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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