{"id":13581,"date":"2022-04-04T23:31:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/?p=13581"},"modified":"2022-11-30T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:59:20","slug":"playstation-ceo-reveals-plans-to-make-new-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/playstation-ceo-reveals-plans-to-make-new-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation CEO reveals plans to make new acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in September last year, Xbox made\u00a0headlines by acquiring ZeniMax Media for some $7.5 billion\u00a0and just this 1st April, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan revealed that the Japanese giant also plans to buy more developers for Sony&#8217;s family, which already has 18 studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gtech-migrated-from-ad-inserter-placement-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-2542215292\"><div style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-2874272841\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/78735\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2026\/03\/005.webp\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2026\/03\/005.webp 1000w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2026\/03\/005-768x768.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><p>In the interview given to the official PlayStation podcast, Ryan commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are in a very good place with PlayStation Studios and have been in recent years. The critical success and commercial success of the games they&#8217;ve been making&#8230; that gave us permission to invest heavily in content creation.<\/p><cite>Jim Ryan &#8211; President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignfull is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 427: The Wonderlands Between by PlayStation\" width=\"1290\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1242726037&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1290\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim hinted that Sony will continue to invest heavily in this playstation development division, but that&#8217;s not all. He also revealed that he has more plans\u00a0involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bungie.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bungie<\/a>, which was bought by PlayStation in January for $19 billion, and more companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are increasing our studios organically and are growing through acquisition.&nbsp;We acquired five studios during the course of 2021, we are in discussions with Bungie and we have more planned. This is putting us in a virtuous cycle where success generates success.<\/p><cite>Jim Ryan &#8211; President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the news, it&#8217;s too early to say what the plans are involving Bungie,\u00a0but studio hires indicate that it should focus on a new third-person title. Unfortunately Ryan hasn&#8217;t revealed which studios would be joining PlayStation any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the CEO also commented on the decision not to include his latest games in\u00a0PS Plus&#8217;s new plans, which were made official at the end\u00a0of March with games of all generations of PlayStation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Putting these games into a subscription service immediately after their release would break that virtuous circle, and we wouldn&#8217;t be able to invest the way we are currently capable. So let&#8217;s not do it. Let&#8217;s stick to the approach we have and served us well in many years now.<\/p><cite>Jim Ryan &#8211; President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Just on 31<sup>st<\/sup> of last month<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sie.com\/en\/corporate\/release\/2022\/220322.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Sony Interactive Entertainment  announce their intent to acquire Haven Entertainment Studios Inc<\/a> of Canada (<em>First Canadian-Based Game Development Team Creating New AAA Modern Multiplayer Game for PlayStation<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth knowing that Sony has confirmed that more titles will be added to its subscription service from June 2022, so we should see more news on it soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-za\/\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-za\/ps5\/\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation 5<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sie.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/a> <\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sie.com\/en\/corporate\/release\/2022\/220322.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Interactive Entertainment announce their intent to acquire Haven Entertainment Studios Inc<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bungie.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bungie<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sony.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<div class=\"gtech-end-cont\" id=\"gtech-1953181824\"><div style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-337782148\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/75343\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"jesdphis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis.avif\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis.avif 1179w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis-768x950.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September last year, Xbox made headlines by acquiring ZeniMax Media for some $7.5 billion and just this 1st April, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan revealed that the Japanese giant also plans to buy more developers for Sony&#8217;s family, which already has 18 studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1165],"tags":[250,742,1706,1283,1705],"class_list":["post-13581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-developers","tag-sony","tag-sony-interactive-entertainment","tag-sony-playstation","tag-playstation-5"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}