{"id":124502,"date":"2022-04-04T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124502"},"modified":"2022-04-04T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:25:34","slug":"playstation-confirms-more-acquisitions-in-the-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124502-playstation-confirms-more-acquisitions-in-the-near-future","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation confirms more acquisitions in the near future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the official PlayStation Podcast (<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/playstation\/official-playstation-podcast-episode-427-the-wonderlands-between?utm_source=Partnerize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 427 \u2013 The Wonderlands Between<\/a>), PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan said that their latest acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124281-playstation-is-acquiring-haven-studios-with-a-live-service-title-in-the-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haven Studios<\/a> is far from the end of the spree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe critical success and the commercial success of the first-party games that we&#8217;ve been making has given us permission to invest heavily into content creation,\u201d said Ryan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re growing our studios organically and we&#8217;re growing through acquisition. We acquired five studios during the course of 2021, and we have more plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such a statement from the CEO of PlayStation has unsurprisingly sparked speculations among fans, and on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S1yE4ylVJvE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kinda Funny Games podcast<\/a>, host Greg Miller and GamesBeat\u2019s Jeff Grubb believe that there is a big new acquisition\u00a0on the way.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the company has the funds to acquire studios the size of CAPCOM (market cap of $5.273 billion), Square Enix (market cap of $5.553 billion), SEGA (market cap of $4.027 billion), and KONAMI (market cap of $8.459 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Whichever publisher it turns out to be, we\u2019re likely to learn of the upcoming deal in the coming months.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Early images of Starfield leaked\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124495-early-images-of-starfield-leaked\" rel=\"bookmark\">Early images of Starfield leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan said that their latest acquisition of Haven Studios is far from the end of the spree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":124503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5070,2664,1870],"class_list":["post-124502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-acquisition","tag-gaming","tag-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}