Bungie acquisition to make Sony more multiplatform: CEO

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Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said that the acquisition of game development studio Bungie marked a major step in the company becoming more multiplatform.

Last year, Sony Interactive Entertainment committed to bringing a slew of Sony first-party exclusives to PC, and hired Apple Arcade's former leader to build a new business unit, with the goal of adapting its popular franchises for mobile phones.

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Earlier this year, Sony bought Bungie, best known for the Halo games and Destiny, for $3.6 billion. The company has previously been an independent subsidiary for both Microsoft and Activision.

The purchase seemed to have been spurred by Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard for a jaw dropping $68.7 billion, which has now given the Redmond based technology and gaming giant exclusive rights to popular franchises like Call of Duty and The Elder Scrolls.

Bungie will function as an independent development house and will continue to release its games on multiple platforms which include the Xbox, PC and mobile.

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Yoshida also commented on Sony's recent interest in bringing its titles to PC, saying that the company will "provide access to its games to as many users as possible", and it will continue to roll out more first-party games on PC.

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