Sony Buys Sucker Punch August 7, 2011

In a suprising move, Sony has bought out Sucker Punch Studios, who have been an exclusive Playstation 3 developer for several years now.  Recently, they were responsible for creating the inFamous series, which was Sony published as a Playstation 3 exclusive, and Sly Cooper, which was a Playstation 2 exclusive.

The inFamous games, first released in 2009, could be considered another one of the important exclusive series to the Playstation 3.  When it launched just before E3 that year it was a huge boon to the Playstation 3 market, which wouldn’t have another major exclusive release until that fall.  With Sucker Punch now Sony owned, all further games they develop will remain Playstation exclusives.

In honor of the event, I will include this video clip from inFamous 2, which I consider to be a perfect analogy to this news.