We have been asking because the announcement of the acquisition, what Sony will get out of shopping for Bungie. If it wasn’t about making its games exclusives to its consoles, what was all of it about? Effectively it appears we could have our reply as Sony already has plans to assist rework Bungie’s franchises into TV and movie tasks.
As reported by Eurogamer, Sony govt Hiroki Totoki spoke in an earnings name about the potential for reworking Bungie’s work into films. The unique report quotes him saying: “[It’s] not only for [the] gaming space, however the multi-using of IP and merchandising of IP—like a recreation title possibly put into films.
“Bungie desires to nurture the IP they’ve in a multi-dimensional method, and that is their hope. For that, we consider we may help that—now we have [Sony] Footage and [Sony] Music, and Bungie can leverage our platform in order that their IP can flourish and develop large.”
The “multi-dimensional” is essential right here. It appears Bungie has large plans for its properties, and although it isn’t acknowledged explicitly, it is seemingly Future is first in line. And though films are the primary focus of Totoki’s remark, it is potential {that a} TV present could also be extra suited to Future’s world.
I feel it is seemingly that the profitable enlargement of Riot’s League of Legends into music, TV, trend, and extra is at the least an inspiration for Sony and Bungie. Riot has achieved such a very good job of transitioning an enormous recreation into a number of totally different mediums that Sony and Bungie may think about the identical for Future.
I am positive there shall be a debate between followers of what format would match the world of Future higher. Sony is gearing up to release the Uncharted film which undoubtedly may have been a sequence over an motion film. Then again, the Halo TV series is already upsetting some fans with its interpretation of Cortana.
