Elden Ring’s creator FromSoftware has been ‘rumored’ to be acquired by a big corporation Sony PlayStation. This is according to a tweet that has been circulating for a few hours now. Joe Miller twitted the breaking news that PlayStation has already “acquired” souls developer FromSoftware internally and would be revealing it within the next few hours, if not days.
April Fool’s 🥳
BREAKING: PlayStation has officially (internally) acquired From Software Studios from Kadokawa Corporation.
They will announce it tomorrow. if not announced tomorrow then wait for tomorrows. pic.twitter.com/rCly1MP6tj— Joe Miller (@JoeMiller101) March 31, 2022
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Casual gamers find the Souls series to be a difficult game. And FromSoftware is famous for developing games with concepts that are similar to reality. These games will turn any casual gamer into a pro since they need excellent timing to evade and attack. Unlike other games where you’d prefer just hit the buttons on the controller, this one requires a little more thought. It’s quite addictive, especially for those who want to complete the games because you’ll improve your skills as you move through these souls-borne games.
After releasing Elden Ring which is a game of the year contender, FromSoftware, a Japanese developer, caused a commotion in the gaming world. There’s no doubt that many large corporations would like to collaborate with FromSoftware because it’s evident that they have the ability to create yet another insane game in the near future. And Sony is one of these companies.
LATEST ACQUISITION
Bungie, the devs of the legendary games Halo and Destiny, is the latest acquisition of Sony for a whopping $3,600,000,000! It’s a tremendous offer, and Bungie couldn’t turn it down. I believe the offer to FromSoftware would be in that area, if not greater, due to the ever-growing community of Elden Ring and possibly its next series and expansions.
If this claim is true, Sony fans would be ecstatic, since a potential Naughty Dog-Square Enix-FromSoftware-Bungie game collaboration would be wonderful. LOL! Consider what kind of game they’d make.
Sony PS-Exclusive Games
Another reason I believe Sony wants FromSoftware is the leverage it would provide them to make future games exclusive to the PlayStation. Which persuades customers to purchase Sony consoles just for the purpose of playing the game.
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Lol April fools even messing with journalists
True or not!! If Sony acquired then made things exclusive it only shows how trash Sony is… Considering how Microsoft purchased bathesda and said it would make any exclusive from that studio… Either way I don’t really care who owns FS as long as they don’t ruin a good thing
Wouldn’t make any exclusives
Yet after saying not doing exclusives, they have made Starfield exclusive to xbox console, not launching on playstation
Xbox never said that they are not doing exclusives with Bethesda IPs. They said that they will honour the exclusivity contracts/deals that Sony already had with Bethesda before the sellout. That’s why both Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo are still timed PS5 exclusives and will come 1 year later on Xbox systems. Other than those 2 games, there were no other Bethesda games that were meant to be Sony exclusives. So Xbox is free to decide on which platform future Bethesda games will release on like Starfield and ES6.
imagine believing microsoft any day of the year lol
What? No they def making their franchises exclusive other than cod and Minecraft. They even said elder scrolls 6 will not be coming to other consoles. Nice try though.
Really?
Explain why outer worlds 2 is now exclusive to MS? What about starfield? What about elder scrolls 6? Phil Spencer hinted that all three games will not appear on Sony consoles. You should do a little research before spreading misinformation.
You’re illinformed. Microsoft is absolutely making Bethesda games exclusives.. Starfield is going to be Microsoft exclusive. Not to mention From Software has already done a Playstation exclusive with Bloodborne
And demon souls
I surely hope it’s an April fool’s joke. The last thing I want is to have to buy consoles just to play one specific game, especially since every other game I play is available for PC. It would be a shame to see FromSoftware acquired, then stop making their games available to ALL gamers.
Joke or not, I’m still waiting for the next Armored Core installment for the current gen systems. But, If it does turn out to be true, I really hope they don’t start producing exclusively for PlayStation. I haven’t been able to get a ps5 yet lol. I would however like to see about a VR experience for armored core, or at least have the first person option again.
The journalist wrote “LOL.” In the piece. No editor changed it. Is this an experiment in replacing human journalism with AI “fact focused society building” or some other similiar think tank horror film bureaucracy?
Obviously this buyout, as with most others is about silencing competition which isn’t healthy for the for industry or its customers.
Fluff pieces have value and a place. Consumers are already swimming in corporate influence. The public would be ok if the free press were to occasionally appear free of their advertiser collars.
“Other well-known developers that have already been acquired by Sony include Square Enix”
Ya Sony didn’t do that. April’s fools guys
This guy said Sony owns square Enix. That’s the biggest April fools.
Joke or not, fuck it, Microsoft has in mind making every game from Bethesda an exclusive so why the hell would Sony make any different.
Don’t be idiots damn gayboxers, if this is true then you deserve it and even if it is not true now it will be on a near future
Don’t blame MS for something that Sony absolutely excels at doing. For the last 2 decades, it was Sony who played the exclusivity game at it’s best. Now you lose your shit when MS starts doing the same?? I say fuck Sony too. At least MS are releasing their exclusive games on PC on Day 1. Sony doesn’t even care to do that.
Sony already came out and squashes this rumor. Also, Sony and Microsoft buying these development companies aren’t doing it to make exclusives, they’re doing it to make flagship games and produce next gen games. Notice how there’s only a few ps5 games and only a few series x/s games? With the big companies acquiring the studios it gives the studios the resources to create native next generation games. Cmon, as a journalist you should at least do some investigation, not just spewing opinions. Bonus fun fact- Sony and Microsoft don’t even consider each other competitors. They’re basically working together, separately, to keep constantly improving the world of video games. An easy Google search can take you go a number of on the record interviews discussing this
If sony were to ever ever aquire fromsoftware the following WILL, not might or maybe but WILL happen. You will have microtransaction, and overloaded UI system, A quest checklist with step by step guide. You would have a game that is popular for being hard yet fun into a money grabing cash grab. Sony will ruin fromsoft games and if they made the game exclusive to the ps5 and only ps5 they will have alienate 80% of there gaming community, cuase massive rights and suffer extreme backlash for it.
The day sony aquires fromsoft is the day fromsofte dies plain and simple