The thirst for new information on the PlayStation 5 is at an all-time high, to the point where even a random Twitter account posting complete nonsense can make its way to the top of a Reddit page. A tweet from a user named @foxygames_uk claims that Sony is on the verge of revealing "a major studio acquisition" to the world, but we really don't think you should be getting your hopes up off the back of this.
Of course, Sony has proven in the past that it'll announce developer purchases completely randomly, of which the acquisition of Insomaniac Games is a shining example, but this Twitter account doesn't actually know what the Japanese giant's plans really are. Taking a look through their most recent tweets, claims of three separate reveal events for the PS5 and a marketing tagline of "Live the PS5 Dream" are enough for us to easily denounce this rumour as a load of rubbish.
Sony probably does have plans to announce further studio acquisitions before the launch of its next-generation console, but we don't expect to hear word of them before the system's reveal event takes place. Hopefully, that'll be next month, and for a list of which studios the hardware manufacturer could realistically buy, head on through the link.
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while we have to admit it is possible that they might announce a new acquisition, after all they did say they had more information to come in the upcoming months i seriously doubt some random twitter user would have the scoop on it
I would normally agree on not believing random accounts.
However FoxyGamesUK is actually one of the very few gaming news YouTube accounts that gets a fair bit right, he may be wrong here which we will soon find out but he has actually confirmed a lot of PS5 details ahead of time aswell as debunk some of those fake stories.
Let's see how this pans out, I think he will be proven wrong this time as this is too insane to come out of nowhere but you never know.
Depends on which studio they acquire I guess
@Amplified what you thinking it could be?
@DonJorginho I dont have the slightest idea to be honest.............
I didnt really play a lot of third party titles so I have no idea which studio is a good studio, other triple games I played are from studios which are too big to acquire but If I'd have to guess (or maybe wishful thinking) maybe FROMSOFTWARE?
@DonJorginho Or it could be Blue Point and if thats the case then I'd say its about time
@Amplified I'd say Bluepoint would be very realistic and a very welcome purchase!
@Amplified I would absolutely adore FromSoftware and could see them doing another Sony exclusive this coming generation however I don't think they will be bought out as such sadly.
Guess that's the Bethesda rumour confirmed then
@DonJorginho yeah I see that too, but a man can dream
@johncalmc Rockstar and Bethesda double announcement with a Bully and Elder Scrolls tie in game revealed.
I watch foxy uk on youtube all the time.he is legit.he always on point..sony is going to announce new studios join them.word up son
Liamcroft .you never heard of foxy uk.he is well known.he is from England just like you.he is extremely famous .and he got a youtube account.i was watching foxy uk yesterday.he is the real deal.word up son
@playstation1995 yeah I watch foxy too, he’s usually right on a lot of things but it’s a bold statement to make. If he’s right my money is on Bluepoint
Can you guys point us towards something he has actually gotten right that isn't jumping on the bandwagon of other rumours? Because looking through his YouTube channel and that seems to be all he does.
Hell's horses, Liam. Did you actually just besmirch the Emperor of Mankind, Foxy by suggesting he's just a random twitter account!!?
I keep hearing rumors of Sony buying Zenimax. I don’t see it happening.
@LieutenantFatman Everyone’s just a random Twitter account in the end 😉
@Fuzzymonkeyfunk could you name one incident when he was right with a prediction.
He's saying Push Square is going to owe him an apology. The sassy scamp.
@JAMes-BroWWWn he was spot on with death stranding releasing last year before last of us part 2. Listen to some of his videos you’ll either agree with him or not. I imagine most YouTube personalities have a little inside knowledge and a lot of guess work. At the end of the day we all know nothing until something has been officially reported.
I've probably not revealed this before, but in the interests of full disclosure, perhaps it's time. One of my sources is actually my Mum's dog. Anyway, at the park he happens to sniff the bum of a dog who belongs to a friend of a cousin of a cleaner who works at Sony. So, fluent that I am in dog (Jack Russell dialect) I was able to translate the following: "woof woof bark woof grr woof woof woofwoofwoof pant pant pant". It means "Sony is in the process of acquiring multiple studios including Take - wait, what's that? A Frisbee! Oh, no just a bit of loo roll - Two. Damn it, throw a frisbee! Ubisoft are also on - oh, now it's a pigeon, I hate those things, all they do is poo on me and fly off instead of playing - the cards. Top secret! Now give me a treat or I won't stop panting on you!"
One company I liked was Double Helix. They made that Strider Hiryu game back in 2014 and the 1st season of Killer Instinct on Xbox One. They got bought by Amazon and haven’t heard from em since. Be nice if Sony got them first.
@shonenjump86
They've recieved a lot of hate in the past for Silent Hill Homecoming and this awful Front Mission shooter.
ZeniMax! That was a rumor a bit ago, wasn’t it?
Damn! You've been too harsh with the guy; I admit I don't believe too much what he says but, you don't want this to be truth? I can totally see Sony buying Bluepoint and or Remedy in the short term, and mysteriously Hello games congratulated Media Molecule when they announced Dreams phase Gold, normally SIE Studios congratulate each others, so maybe Sony has been inviting them to join (?).
Of course my wet dream is FromSoftware joining WWS but that's highly unlikely.
@OscarHTX As @get2sammyb has said in the past, we choose to report on the posts that get people talking. This certain rumour was top of the PS4 Reddit page and had people discussing its validity, so we thought to weigh in on the conversation.
@Shepard93n7 Could you imagine if we started reporting news that we "wanted" to be true? I agree that Bluepoint will likely be acquired, but I'm not going to pretend I factually know this is going to happen because I don't — it's just my opinion.
Foxy Games UK's reluctance to name a developer and timeline for an acquisition he's confident he has inside details on suggests to me that he's being deliberately vague so that he can claim some kind of "victory" when Sony inevitably acquires someone in the distant future.
It's the golden rule of being a rumourmonger — never be too specific. As long as you remain vague, you can claim you're correct about anything.
Sony probably going announce their bought remedy or blue point or both.
So you guys know this is BS, yet you still write an article...
@Fuzzymonkeyfunk. I agree with you.he always spot on with me.and false rumors he always say no to them.he is one of. The best on youtube.word up son
Hey, Sony about to have a major studio acquisition doesn't seem far fetched to me. Why are you treating it like it's pure fantasy. At worst its educated speculation. At worst.
It's not a 'random twitter account' either like a few pointed out. At least on popularity level.
@JJ2 because Microsoft is the only video game company that are allow to buy new studios apparently.
@JJ2 There's no substance to the claim at this point. Some of us already expected an acquisition, hence the skepticism. The situation is more about the person in question having information about the matter as if it was a fact. This is outlined in the article.
@Fuzzymonkeyfunk he knows nothing. A lot of people "predicted" Death Stranding was coming out before The Last of Us. Hell, even Kojima himself said it'd be out before the Tokyo Olympics. You wanna know real insider, go keep your eyes on Shinobi, Ahmed, and Jason Schreier. When they say something, they are always concrete and not that cryptic wording like this wannabe insider pulls up all the times. He's just as reliable as this Tidux guy. Irresponsible clout chasers.
@Zukato
Well isn't it what most rumours are like anyway. Only rumours with no substance to the claim. Be sceptical about all for sure. This article just feels like taking shots at this youtuber though
If all these leaks are to be believed sony will reveal it bought zenimax, take 2 and CD projekt red during E3 😂
@JAMes-BroWWWn Jason Schreier was spot on with the last of us delay and is probably one of the best gaming journalists out their but it’s sometimes fun to speculate. We all know nothing is real until it’s been confirmed.
@Prime_Objective ah, I remember Homecoming having issues. I wasn’t aware it was Double Helix who made that though.
I usually smell BS a mile away.
This doesn’t feel like one of those instances.
If the PS meeting does happen in February, I could see Sony announcing a acquisition...
Actually Foxygamesuk has been around for a long time and is not just a random twitter account, I'd take his word over the no name russian that pushsquare thought was good enough for article on horizon zero dawn going to pc, pushsquare really is going downhill, going after him on twitter as well pathetic.
@Amplified Fromsoft is already owned by another Japanese company so unless they are willing to sell Fromsoft the only other way they get them would be to buy the parent company
"Dont believe the Lies"then why publish it😂
Whoever runs the Push Square Twitter account should be ashamed of themselves, it is bad enough when you make an article slamming the guy for rumours which don't hurt anyone, and as far as I can remember you didn't have this same negative energy with that Russian guy with the whole HZD on PC b*llocks.
And when that isn't bad enough, I see the admin of the PS Twitter being all sarcastic and sassy to the guy when he isn't even throwing abuse and is actually praising your page and being respectful to you!
You could have handled this situation MUCH better, it has made you out to look like immature children who get annoyed when anyone challenges your articles.
I watch foxy as well, one the few non vr channels I watch, but he rarely puts anything out unless he really sure, hates being wrong and looking stupid,
and often gives u guys a shout out whenever u guys break a story, like the recent CES one, so u may notice a good few defending him
@DonJorginho We simply asked him to back up his claim. If you describe that as "sarcastic and sassy" then I don't know what to tell you. There comes a point where these sorts of posters need to be held accountable for what they're saying.
@LiamCroft Yes but in a sarcastic way, the admin said something along the lines of "Well as you are obviously so confident surely you will want to share with us the announcement date and the name of the developer, then we will happily retract our story"
This does seem very sassy to me personally.
And I agree posters need to be held accountable, but there are much more professional ways to go about this, especially seeing as you guys at Push Square are such a great site and great group of people, I just hate seeing you lot stoop to that level, especially when I don't think Foxy was being anything but respectful and full of praise for you.
@johncalmc Fallout with the Horizon Zero Dawn engine and polish that would be awsome. 😃
@shonenjump86 They were shut down I believe. So they're out.
I'd settle for a small acquisition, say blue point or housemarque, or supermassive
I fully agree with this article and the author. I've listened to Foxy Games UK telling lies about his inside sources for years now. He claims he has insider sources, he does not. His news comes from Reddit and aggregate news sites, you can trace his weekly "news" to whatever is being reported on N4G and GameONdaily. So far I have heard him state that PS5 is going to to be 13.4TF, 11.6TF and most other numbers in between. He reads the rumours and takes a best guess stab in the dark and claims that this is "reporting". #Fake
@LiamCroft You're right on the money Liam, he's a fraud - claims he has inside knowledge he doesn't. He used to run a YT channel called PlayStation News Now, got called out by Rags for his anti PC rhetoric and was reborn as FGUK. All his "inside knowledge comes from Reddit or aggregate news sites. He makes so many ludicrous claims it's comical, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. His channel is like a corporate echo chamber for fanatical members of the community that treat his hyperbole as gospel. Good work calling it out.
When you have to put a small YouTube channel or Twitter account with a small amount of followers down to make yourself seem more relevant, that's when you know you've failed as a journalist.
Most recently FGUK has gone against all the bandwagon youtubers and stated clearly the PS5 will feature hardware based ray tracing and will be 10+ teraflops, stated Sony at CES will reveal nothing new, months and months ago confirmed backwards compatibility via a patent find and credited the news to the finder, has repeatedly stated Sony will release a PS5 and PS5 Pro model. The Pro using the same chip set but being only slightly better with much larger drives and a bit more Ram. Time will tell but he has my vote.
Whether he is wrong or right. Fake or otherwise. For you to call someone out on the site is childish and unprofessional. What exactly was the purpose of this article? Where is the substance? What is the engame in this? I see nothing other than to aim and fire at another person who is into gaming. Until anything is confirmed everything is speculation, rumor or outright bulls***. So what? This article just screams bully.
I've been reading Push Square for years. I've never seen such an article.
Is there a story behind this? There seems to be something more to it. Has Fox attacked you guys before. Or has he attacked the author of this article.
It's all just so petty and disappointing.
I suggest a follow up to this article making clear what the reasoning for this one was. At least clarify for your readers why this was written.
If you guys found that he is scum do to something other that rumor and speculation then point it out. I will cut him off with the quickness if that's the case.
This whole situation has left a bad taste. I always enjoyed Push Square for it's upbeat and nonchalant feel to it.
Don't taint it.
Appreciate your feedback, but please do be mindful of language - Quintumply
@DonJorginho
"Foxy" did exactly the same thing when he got called out by Rags for his anti PC narrative back when his channel was PlayStation News now, after being called out it was all "I have nothing but respect for Rags" and "I'm one of his biggest fans" pretending that he was being deliberately controversial so Rags would make a video about him. He backed down on Twitter and started making apologist excuses all over YouTube before he deleted his channel and became FGUK. I'm over the moon that someone called him out, he's not a small channel he has reach to 30,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. He's always the first to call other creators frauds, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Could have gone with the usual "we don't know the track record of this person so take it with a huge grain of salt" etc etc - but you're straight up using the subtitle of this article to slander Fox. Did someone piss in your cereal that morning before you wrote that or something?
I would be most pleased of Remedy or Rocksteady acquisition. These two studios belong to my absolutely most favourite.
Disgraceful behaviour, you ruthlessly debunk a tweet about upcoming announcements only to have a link leading to your own complete guesswork. If in the next say 3 months sony announces the acquisition of a top 3rd party developer will we see a humble push square apologise? Me thinks not.
@Liam Croft Honestly what was your end game with this post? I thought PushSquare was better than this! And your even contradicting yourself in the post. What was it a quite day...did you get bored?? I rember watching your update on my PS4 so I thought you guys where bigger than these sort of childish posts mark my words your gonna regret this. 1. Your promoting the "foxygamesuk" 2. Random Twitter account with 30k subs....you have 75k 3. What goes around comes around! ....Very childish!
@cMc1974 true that...won't be such "random" Twitter account anymore.
@LiamCroft does everybody that claims to have inside knowledge of an upcoming event have to divulge their sources to you or face your internet kangaroo court? Awful article #standuptobullies
@reddog you bet me to it, I was just about to say the same thing. Fact is also source don't want to be called out....it could cost them there job. And actually foxy nearly Everytime puts his sources in the YouTube comments. Again what's squaresofts end game with such a post??
@reddog - Foxy put a video out today asking the exact same thing. I highly doubt Push Square reveal sources, why should he? Even Mystic cited Foxy in his Friday video this week, treated it as rumour and moved on with zero character assassination. Then again Mystic is a classy guy. Unlike some.
@Wasabi regardless of Foxy himself, it doesn't mean he deserves this character assassination that Push Square are attempting.
@DonJorginho I see where you're coming from, but is it really a character assassination? I know that's what Fox is saying, but as far as I can see, all PushSquare has done is ask him to name the studio and give a timeline on the information that he's claiming as fact, they've not asked him to name his source, but to simply provide context to his vague and cryptic Tweet.
@LiamCroft
Sorry for being a bit late but on your question about his credibility.
I remember at the time when SLayden 'disapeared' I was listening to foxy podcast and that's the first time it was linked to PlayStation restructuration. (While most news thought of power struggle) He said a few were concerned and he was glad his contact wasnt.
Besides, i know he has flaws hes human, but seems like a cool guy who doesn't deserve that sort of pillory.
Reading the tweet. Theres no way it could be interpreted as a lie. At worst as an individual gut feeling. Take it or leave it but no need for a personal attack.
@JJ2 Indeed, kinda unnecessary on PushSquare part. Foxy had a number of correct predictions to back up his credibility.
https://twitter.com/Tidux/status/1217109848736903168
Another tweet regarding the rumored PS acquisition. Tidux is a little bigger than Foxy from what I know, and he's associated with Nate Najda (aka Shinobi), who IS reliable. So, imo there is some weight about what Foxy said.
Either way, apparently we're gonna find out in the coming days.
@LiamCroft you have nothing to apologize to Fox for. He is full of cr*p most of the time. You owe him nothing. If anything he owes you and other media outlets since the majority of his videos consist of him regurgitating entire articles that you people write. In effect...you provide the script for 95% of a single video of his.
Foxys predictions are pretty much him stating the obvious and inevitable.... and he tries to act like nobody else predicted it....just like he did with PS4 Neo.
Fox also tries to act like he is above "fanboy" wars .....but just watching his Twitter account long enough will prove otherwise.
He has claimed to have lived in the USA for 8 years....living the life of this "bangin home gangsta with chicks on his arm" etc and came back to the UK in 2009. However in podcasts he has spoken of being there at the launch of the 2005 Xbox 360 UK launch when he got his 360......the 360 a REGION LOCKED console. He got his PS3 in the UK also. So buying UK consoles whilst supposedly living in the states as a "streetwise bad mofo" .....the guy is full of cr*p.
Fox desperately wants people to look up to him. He has had numerous conflicts with people who had called him out on his BS. When he knows he is wrong he makes excuses like he had given up smoking or something. His latest excuse for being a jerk to people is claiming he is bipolar.
Fox originally went by the name of PlaystationNewsNow ....where he built up his audience of PS fanboys by bashing on Xbox. Most of the people defending him here originate from that audience.
@Wasabi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohg01IoA_YI
Foxy Games UK - True Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meQXLkV6BSc
@RJMiles
All completely true. The guy is toxic, even to members on his own podcast, he always plays the victim when he gets called out, his content is weak and he lies about his sources.
You're also quite right about people defending him here, the majority are also subscribed to his YT and Twitter and use the same username, Foxy's been deleting comments calling him out on his channel and playing the sympathy card with his fanatical fans.
Can anyone actually point to a single thing he's correctly predicted that's not an obvious educated guess based on knowledge already in the public domain?
@LiamCroft Now, in his latest video and some 18 months further down the line, Foxy Games UK claims he was right all along after Sony announces Housemarque joins PlayStation Studios
https://youtu.be/uavPiYlvpMQ
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