Microsoft’s still busy buying up any developers on the brink of financial ruin, with Double Fine the latest team recruited to its spunky new first-party unit. As with previous purchases, the in-development Psychonauts 2 will still release on the PlayStation 4, but that’ll be the last you see from Tim Schafer and his team on a Sony system. Probably.
It’s obviously a bummer when this happens, but if it gives the studio the security it needs, then it’s difficult to be too upset. A blow, perhaps – but speaking personally, this one doesn’t hurt quite like Ninja Theory did last year.
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Super bummed that MS have bought Double Fine but at least PS4 will still be getting Psychonauts 2.
Next year they'll have Naughty Dog
This is genuinely gutting news for me I'm a big fan of Double Fines work so it's a loss. I honestly thought it was gonna be Insomniac!! If I was Sony id be trying to make that a deal
@RedMan33 well, all of their games will be on pc so there is that option at least.
@Porco not for me I don't own a PC, it's more where they go in the future but if there are a stack of games on the neXtBox that I want I'll probably end up with one, if they had more than Cuphead (genuinely the only XB game I want and now it's sat on nicely on my Switch) I would have picked up an Xbox One to sit alongside the other two
You don't buy when the stock is high so get the talent when they are on the verge of collapse for a bargain price...
Well good to know that I will save a few quid by not buying Psychonauts 2 now then.
So Microsoft bought a financial black hole?
I'm going to keep saying it, Sony needs to get hot and lock up some more studios. Yes it has great teams but more never hurts. Get Insomniac, Quantic Dream, Asobo, Dontnod and BluePoint before they're picked off by MS.
It still strange to me that they (PS) haven't bought any studios this Gen, considering how trigger happy they were last Gen. I'd love to lock down supermassive or house marque
And people says they will buy insomniacs and bluepoint games lol. Microsoft only interested in small devs so they can make AA or B games that can be played on their gamepass subs, they’re not gonna make expensive god of war, horizon zd or uncharted 4 type of games then gave it away in a $10 a permonth service.
I'm getting tired of this. I'm a huge fan of games like Gang Beasts, Headlander, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle etc. I don't want to have to play future games like this on the Xbox.
sony is growing its own studios, so for example guerrilla and naughty dog are currently expanding and will be able to make multiple games simultaneously. i wouldn't be surprised if there'd been some behind the scenes discussion with insomniac for example, but they've always seemed fiercely independent. buying the right studio that fits sony's portfolio is not that easy. if there are independent studios failing, it's probably not because they've made amazing games that just didn't sell.
@Gamer83 quantic dream went multiplat so they are off the cards.
Looks like Kenny Powers in that pic.
@wiiware this aged poorly.
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