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October 18, 2023, 2:42 p.m
After merging with Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has nearly twice as many development studios as Sony. Japanese people can be jealous, but they are also respectful.
Image source: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios.
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Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard means that the latter acquires powerful gaming brands – such as Diablo, Warcraft and Call of Duty – but also a number of talented development studios. If we compare them with the teams that were previously under the wing of the Redmond giant, it turns out that there are actually 40 of them.
The number and the names behind it should make an equal – or perhaps even more – impression? – On competitive Sony. The PlayStation Studios family consists of “only” 23 teams.
Below you can check which development studios currently belong to Microsoft and Sony. Some of them can be found in the user graphic below is back Aka Gerard Crabbe. However, it is not complete – 7 teams are missing: 4 from Activision Blizzard and 3 from PlayStation Studios.
That’s why I’ve included the full list below. By clicking on the name of the specific studio, you will discover the games it has produced or is currently developing. If we do not have a specific company in our database, you will find additional information about it in parentheses next to its name.
If there was any conclusion to be drawn from this list, it would probably be this: Thanks to many years of collaboration, Sony has put many great studios on a pedestal. I mean Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, Santa Monica Studio, Guerrilla Games, and Polyphony Digital. Microsoft has bought its strongest team currently after achieving global success.
Some fun facts also come to mind. For example: Crash Bandicoot, which was originally a Sony brand, is now owned by the giant from Redmond, while Bungie, the studio that started Microsoft’s Halo series, is now under the Sony umbrella… but you probably already know that .
Source: Reddit/GerardCrab.
Microsoft Studios
Zenimax media
- Bethesda Softworks
- Identity programs
- ZeniMax Studios Online
- Roundhouse Entertainment (Downig Human Head Studios)
- Alpha games for dogs
- Tango games
- Arkan Studios
- Machine games
Activision Blizzard
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Infinity Ward
- Hammer games
- Treyarch
- Raven programs
- Bob’s toys
- High Moon Studios
- Radical entertainment
- Pinox
- DemonWare (support in working on network modes and creating technologies)
- king
- Legendary digital entertainment
- Solid State Studios (m. Call of Duty War Zone Mobile)
- Activision Shanghai Studio (Call of Duty series support)
- Albany Blizzard (formerly Vicarious Visions)
- Proletariat
Xbox game studios
- 343 industries
- Double Fine Productions
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Convert 10 studios
- inXile Entertainment
- The initiative
- Undead laboratories
- Edge of the world
- Alliance
- Force games
- Ninja theory
- Playground games
- rare
- Mojang Studios
PlayStation Studios
- Naughty dog
- Santa Monica Studios (most of the God of War series)
- Sucker Punch Productions
- Bend studio
- Insomniac games
- San Diego studio
- Blue Point Games
- Firewalk Studios
- Valkyrie Entertainment
- Haven Studios
- Asobi team
- Digital polyphony
- Guerrilla war games
- Nexus software
- London studio
- Media molecule
- Firesprite
- Savage Game Studios (founded in 2022, producing its first production – AAA game service)
- Homeomark
- Benjy
- San Mateo Studio (collaborates with other teams and created, among others, Rise to Honor)
- Studio Xdev
- Textile games
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