Firesprite Acquisition, Sony Allegedly Planning To Develop VR Games Again

JAKARTA - The news comes from Sony which has just added another developer to its PlayStation Studios lineup, by acquiring Firesprite, a developer born in the UK with virtual reality (VR) based works.

Firesprite was founded in 2012 and since then has developed a number of games for Sony's PlayStation console. Firesprite games include The Playroom and The Playroom VR, Run Sackboy! Run! and the horror game The Persistence. The acquisition of Firesprite by Sony which was announced in its official blog post is also one of the largest to date.

Firesprite alone has just over 250 employees. This is clearly the opposite of London Studio and Media Molecule, two other Sony developers who are also based in the UK, but have fewer developers than Firesprite.

“Now, as a first party studio. We know we have PlayStation's full support in furthering our legacy of combining creativity and technical innovation to offer some truly unique experiences for PlayStation fans," said Firesprite Founder and managing director, Graeme Ankers. , September 9th.

However, it is unclear what will be the main focus of Firesprite for Sony going forward. Is it as a developer or something more targeted. Given the company's experience with The Playroom VR, it's possible that the first game we saw from Firesprite was for Sony's next-generation PlayStation VR system.

Firesprite isn't an exclusive developer of VR, the release of The Persistence Enhanced proves this, but the time feels right for Sony to leverage Firesprite's expertise and unveil bigger plans for PSVR 2. resulting from this acquisition.

This summer, Sony recently bought Housemarque, the studio behind Returnal, and Nixxes Software, a developer with years of experience porting console games to PC. It is likely that Housemarque will continue to make its own games and Nixxes will port PlayStation games to PC.

Meanwhile, Sony will also be holding a PlayStation Showcase today local time. The 40-minute presentation will include updates from PlayStation Studios and some of the industry's most imaginative developers for the game.