Sony named the amount spent on the purchase of the Insomniac Games studio, which created the latter . According to the company's quarterly report, cost her $229 million.
The document notes that the price is not final and can be adjusted until the end of March 2020. What may affect the cost adjustment is not specified.
This is far from the largest amount paid for the purchase of a game development studio. For example, in 2017 Electronic Arts $455 million to acquire Respawn Entertainment, which created the Titanfall universe. As part of the publishing house, the studio released a battle royale , the number of players in the first month 50 million people.
Insomniac is known for creating Marvel's Spider-Man, which became a PlayStation 4 exclusive. The game was released in 2018 and received rave reviews from critics, scoring on Metacritic. In early February, ex-IGN editor Colin Moriarty that the studio is working on a sequel to the Spider-Man action film.
Source: 3dnews.ru