Side Quest, Episode 55: The Five Game Devs Sony Should Buy

I like having an ecosystem! I think it's fun.

Colin Moriarty

Kojima would be an interesting investment if he and his team deliver on Death Stranding. Sucker Punch was purchased after they proved literally five times they made great games. So who knows. And I suspect Kojima wants to stay free...

Colin Moriarty

I know very little about their internal structure or culture, truth be told.

Colin Moriarty

Thank you!

Colin Moriarty

It remains to be seen what the specific publishing deal was for the original Sunset, too. That may come to PS5 or something./

Colin Moriarty

Other than multiplayer/online specialists, that's the biggest gap in their catalog, I think.

Colin Moriarty

Glad you liked it. Thank you for watching!

Colin Moriarty

I'm not too keen on exclusivity, so I don't really want any platform to purchase any studios if that just leads to continued and expanded division of gamers. Even if money wasn't an issue and I could afford every console, there's still the inconvenience of booting up another device to play a game that is only on said platform. It'd be nice to just pick a platform and have everything I want right at my finger tips.

Harley Carlson

I just don't see that From would see the value in being purchased.

Dan Parsons

From software seems... Almost possible. Sony has the capitol for a purchase, and they are a big deal right now

Andrew Christensen

I don't think you realize "hatred" between Sony and Nintendo. Nintendo is more probable to cooperate with Microsoft from US than with Japanese Sony.

Good vid Col. You said recently that you were having writers block (content block?) regarding Side Quest. If it makes your job easier, do more content like this man, it's perfect. As far as the Studio's go, those all make sense!. Do you think it's possible that they would try to get Kojima Productions first party?. I also wonder if some studio's working on PS5 games have been bought, but wont get announced until the PS5 gets announced?.

Ryan Murdoch

Colin, do you have any insights as far as the inner workings of From Software goes? They have such a weird, diverse history-as far as the games they’ve developed. They almost seem like the Japanese version of Gearbox. They both are best known for a very good series (Souls and Borderlands). They both have some really poor games to their names (Steel Battalion and Aliens: Colonial Marines/Duke Nukem). And they both have a few somewhat decent/popular series (Armored Core and Brothers-in-Arms). From Software has done quite a few random games, and Gearbox of course is also known for porting Halo: CE to PC back in the day. Gearbox also is credited with James Bond 007: Nightfire. Just thought it was interesting to compare these two devs. From Software is pretty old (1986 according to Wikipedia) and itd be great to learn more about what goes on over there.

Zack E

If Sony had billions lying around, they should buy Nintendo. Honestly don’t think anyone would be mad either. Always thought Insomniac was a 1st Party up until Sunset Overdrive.

Brandon Soto

Great video!

Daniel Boyer

Funny how Insomniac owns the Sunset Overdrive IP. Imagine Sony buying them and publishing a sequel to that game

John Apocalypse

My personal, greedy choice? Vanillaware. I love great art in games, and imo they're best in class. I also find it bonkers they don't have an internally made JRPG... While I've enjoyed recent Final Fantasies, I can't deny that I'd want something with the level of polish and scope an internally made AAA JRPG would provide...

hugplx

Next gen games won't be bottlenecked by that garbage CPU anymore, so 60 FPS is pretty much given.

Ege

I really hope they don't buy fromsoftware. I need my 60fps gameplay 😭 bloodborne as cool and fun as it was, felt like an eyesore to my elitist eyeballs. Especially compared to the pc version of DS3

Connor Peterman

Great episode... More like this plz 🤗🤩

Tony Colton