Following the acquisition of Firesprite, PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst acknowledged that some of Sony’s recent acquisitions might be “surprising to the outside world,” but he insists that it’s all about “quality and uniqueness.”
Prior to Firesprite, Sony’s acquisition of Nixxes Software raised some questions, but the company was quick to confirm that Nixxes formed part of its strategy to port PlayStation first-party games over to PC.
“With the teams we’ve acquired recently, I happen to know the people very well, so I know what they’re capable of, and I actually also know what they’re working on,” Hulst told GamesRadar. “That privileged relationship that I have gives me a lot of confidence in the games coming out of these teams being really strong, and being very PlayStation Studios, in terms of the quality that we’re after always – we’re always striving for better games – but also the uniqueness of the experiences. It’s all about the quality and the uniqueness of the gaming experiences. The fact that they’re surprising… yes, maybe to the outside world, but maybe not to the people that have been working on it.”
Hulst added that this is a good time to bring Firesprite on board. The 250-person team was set up by the founders of Sony’s old Liverpool studio.
“Now we get an opportunity to work on some really interesting games, exclusive games within PlayStation Studios, that I can’t talk about today in detail, but I’m very, very excited about it,” Hulst concluded.
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[Source: GamesRadar]
