Sony May Have Added Another First-Party Studio to Its Roster

Very excited to see what these guys are working on. Love most of the games by Supermassive, and would definitely be interested in more games in that style by Sony first party.

For those wondering: Ballistic Moon was formed by former Supermassive Games leads, who made Until Dawn

@Voltan yeah would love to see Sony have a studio dedicated to make these kind of games since supermassive and quantic dream are 3rd party now.

Pushsquare very late on this one.

With all the talk centering on the AB acquisition by Microsoft, it definitely has meant that Sony has been playing their own acquisitions very close to their chests! I would not be surprised if we hear about a few more of these stories in the coming months. Personally I would love it if Sony were to negotiate a deal with WB Games, but I could only see that happening if the AB deal were to go through.

Sony mostly acquires minds not ips, i respect that and it's actually something MS should focus after their need to hire Crystal Dynamics when the brand new Perfect Dark studio failed, instead of monopolizing the most profitable franchise in the market from people who are selling it because they can't keep their needs in their pants.

Single-player narrative driven AAA games are my jam, so this is a welcome addition to the PlayStation roster, if true.

Interesting. A small, up and coming developer. It absolutely fits the approach that Sony tries to take with its growth policy - I can absolutely see this being true.

Somebody will try and use this whether it true or not as a reason to justify ms acquisition of Activision and other publishers.... and I'm just face palm until my face breaks.

@Bionic-Spencer wb won't sell their game division .

@Voltan Nice, hopefully they can fix the pause issue on Rush of blood running on PS5 and, port the game to psvr 2 as you can never have too many rollercoaster shooting galleries (yes even with Switchback). Such a good fun game.

Let me guess. Sony is going to force them into a "support" Studio or making live service games. lol

@Robocrop_Duster why do it always have to be that one random negative person like you in every article lol.

I believe the rumor is true, I mean why would PlayStation put out a job listing for a studio they don't own, I remember something similar happening with Insomniac Games & Bluepoint, PlayStation put out job listings on behalf of Insomniac Games 4-5 months before they were officially acquired, same thing happened 3-4 months before Bluepoint, I believe the job listing occurred a month before that accident 'Welcome to the Family' banner leak for both Bluepoint & Housemarque.

And considering Ballistic Moon are made-up of Supermassive Games & Quantic Dream talent, I think this would be a smart acquisition, Ballistic Moon could potentially fill that Supermassive & Quantic Dream void, plus it wouldn't be a very pricey acquisition. I hope there's a chance they could acquire Ember Lab soon too, Kena: Bridge of Spirits was a great game, pretty impressive considering it's their first ever attempt. It sounds like Ember Lab's is even working very closely with PlayStation on their next project, if all goes well, or if Sony like what they're seeing regarding their new project, I can see them acquiring Ember Lab (If they haven't already) like they did Haven Studio. I'm also confident they're going to acquire Deviation Games at some point too, I don't think it's a case of 'if' but rather 'when'.

@JustPlainLoco yeah definitely cant let ember labs get away. There game was so unique with its animation work

You’ll have Xbox fans saying Playstation are hypocrites, they’ll say if Sony can do this MS should be allowed to acquire Activision Blizzard.

my guess this is just some other studio using already present assets to milk one of Sony's aging and played out franchises like Uncharted

@C25CLOUD I know that, I was just wishful thinking.

@Voltan considering Sony owns the IP, I'd love if they revisit that universe albeit with new characters.

@Voltan i knew it , more interactive movies and cinematic stories 😴😴😴

@C25CLOUD they would on the condition whoever buys them licenses out their IP on a contractual basis rather than wholly owning them. I read that sometime in 2021 when they initially put it up for sale, and Microsoft inquired about the purchase, this was a sticking point to them not wanting to buy wb gaming division.

@JustPlainLoco I could see them working on a PSVR title tbh, Rush of blood was so underrated, and I'm sure people would love a sequel from the same minds.

I also think Deviation will be acquired one of these days, if you seen the tour of their office, they have an unhealthy amount of PS decoration for an independent studio.

@KundaliniRising333 It's been sort of confirmed already that Ballistic Moon are working on a brand new horror IP, Codename - "Project Bates".

@jimbouk oh. Nice

i wouldn't be surprised if they give already established ip's to some of these studios and let their main studios take over new series. games like infamous , killzone , resistance , even the order , all have potential.

@nomither6 to be fair we could do with a top notch movie style genre with more gameplay.

Supermassive have been a let down since until dawn.
Quantic dreams moved away from Sony and there games can be hit n miss.

Reality is Sony needs to implement them selves at the top of the game in every genre at first part level.
We need a top notch movie game
We need a top notch Rpg and a jrpg, which is probably why they will end up buying square, due to the fact ff games are practically Sony console only.
We do need a top first person shooter.
We already have a decent sports game.
What else do we need

@Bez87

First Person Shooter or Third person or a hybrid of both with a campaign and multiplayer . bring back killzone , resistance , etc

bring back platformers like jak and daxter , sly cooper , etc and revive other unique action games like infamous ; diversify their library like the ps1 and 2 had with games that took risks and fresh ideas like twisted metal , modnation racers, ape escape

make a fighting game

make multiplayer games for people that enjoy playing games with others

sonys library is stale ; they produce quality and good stories but it’s all used on the same ***** genre over and over again, and they don’t prioritize making video games moreso than just making a good story that you can play every now and then . their games are like 90 dialogue/story 10% gameplay .

@4kgk2 why is water wet? lol

It could be another Callisto Protocol where Sony is assigning their own developers to help third party studios out with their games, even if they are multi platform.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/11/sony-assigned-over-150-employees-to-aid-the-callisto-protocols-production

@GymratAmarillo Is that a joke? Sounds like a joke. Sony literally just recently bought Bungie, are you going to tell me they aren't a big name attached to a big IP? Just one of many examples.

For those crying foul about all these small acquisitions Sony does while Microsoft's acquisition (mercifully) looks increasingly less likely, Sony has not fully countered the Bethesda acquisition yet in terms of value, let alone another $70B beyond that, so shut it.

Really excited to see what these guys are cooking.
I love their studio name as well,wish them all the best.

their games are like 90 dialogue/story 10% gameplay

Tell me you don't play playstation exclusives without telling me you don't play playstation exclusives.

@UltimateOtaku91 i don’t finish them , they’re nothing special . since when are their exclusives known for the gameplay and not the immersion/story/dialogue etc

i’ll wait

btw spider-man doesn’t count it’s licensed

@JayJ - Bungie is literally the ONLY example, and they bought Bungie for their Talent AND their expertise in the GAAS model, if they bought Bungie just for the Destiny IP, I doubt they would have payed an additional $1.6 Billion Dollars to retain the Talent, plus there'd be no reason for them to invest in 10 GAAS games. They could have relied solely on the constant stream of revenue generated from Destiny, yet they not doing that.

Not saying Destiny didn't play a factor in the decision to acquire Bungie, and even if it did, that's literally one IP AND it isn't being used as leverage like Xbox is trying to do with COD, nor do Destiny or future projects from Bungie appear to be in jeopardy of not coming to competing platforms as that was written into the contract when they were acquired (Hard to say if that's true as far as Nintendo is concerned, but Destiny 2 supposedly is coming to Switch, so who knows).

Some more single player awesomeness from the Sony camp:)

@sjbsixpack playstation has paid to keep games off of competing systems for years so yes it is a "hypocrite" company i mean didn't sony list Microsoft being able to raise Xbox console prices as a reason they shouldn't acquire activison meanwhile sony are the one's who raised the price of PS5.

The only way i can play final fantasy 7 remake is if i get my dusty day one ps4 out of storage and tolerate jet engine noise that's not fair.

@Deityjester Stalker an Arc 2 ring a bell. They both do that!! Comparing Sony paying for timed exclusivity of a game to MS wanting to buy the company that makes one of the biggest games in the world is hilarious. Wen MS bought Bethesda Phil Spencer said games will remain multi platform, then he said some new Bethesda games would come to Playstation, then he said Starfield won’t come to Playstation, now nothing comes to Playstation. Sony buy small devs, invest, produce GOTY contender games. MS buy already huge, established devs, make the same multi platform games but make them exclusive. Big difference. I do like playing COD Team Death Match an i nearly always buy COD so if it was put on Game Pass that’s a win for me. I still think MS are trying to buy Xbox to the top. They’re the Paris St Germain of video games!!

@sjbsixpack You're comparing games that have yet to be released, no stalker game has ever been on either console so it's invalid to even compare it to sony gatekeeping with FF7 remake when the original FF7 and many other games in that series which is huge were on the Xbox. Ark isn't even on the same level as FF, you wanna talk survival games so where is the forest? I own that on PS why isn't it on Xbox?

You tell me why should Microsoft put starfield on PS? Is sony gonna stop paying game devs to keep games off of Xbox and Nintendo? Why is ok for Sony to make modes exclusive in cod, stop sfv/ff7 remake and many other games from coming to the xbox?

Also Sony has only produced one true "goty contender" since Uncharted 4 and that's days gone. "Nothing comes to playstation" Ghostwire and deathloop did.

@Deityjester it is still wat they do. MS pay to make things exclusive to Xbox. Sony have more to offer as games sell way more on Playstation so companies are willing to give Playstation exclusive content. If in the next 4 years Series X had a bunch of new, Xbox exclusive games an they were on a par or better than PS exclusives then Xbox would do better. But they won’t as they’re not as good as Sony devs at makin games.
The Last of Us, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted 4, all won GOTY. TLOU2 was ver close second to GoT. Xbox have never had a GOTY, they just buy up already huge games!!

@KidBoruto looks confirmed to me:

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2023/02/19/sony-playstation-acquired-ballistic-moon/amp/