The giant Japanese tech company Sony has shared that they are investing a massive quarter-billion Dollars into Epic Games. While the amount may sound like a large sum of money, it only amounts to a minority stake for Sony in the gaming company.
Sony is a big player in the gaming industry but the tides are shifting towards an almost fully open approach towards platforms and connectivity. Whether it is streaming your games over the internet or getting access to vast libraries due to game subscriptions. The landscape is changing fast.
As such, even Sony has shown signs towards approaching the gaming business, unlike anything we have witnessed from the gaming giant. For the longest time, Sony was adamant about adhering to traditional console paradigms in which exclusivity and full focus on a closed ecosystem have marked the cornerstones of the console business.
But with a change in leadership and the competition shaping the future of gaming towards wildly fresh directions, Sony is now also embracing new ideas. We are of course talking about Horizon Zero Dawn coming to PC and the PlayStation brand inching towards multiplatform.
Rumors about further PlayStation exclusives making the jump to the PC platform have been running rampant and it’s true. Bringing only one game makes little sense. As such, today’s announcement that Sony and Epic Games have begun a bigger partnership with a massive investment has the gears in our minds running at full speed.
Will the Unreal Engine play a bigger role in future Sony first-party titles? Are PlayStation exclusives coming to the Epic Games Store? These are fascinating questions that will be answered in due time with actions rather than statements. And we are excited to see what the future has in its cards for Sony.
