Sony Playstation has acquired Firespite (Playroom VR and The Persistence VR)

[Brian]

Looks like a pickup to support PSVR2 

[Brian]

Why PlayStation is buying Firesprite, one of the UK's fastest growing studios

T.CO

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The 250-person team was formed by the founders of Sony's old Liverpool Studio

 

[Keyser_Soze]

Why? Because Jim Ryan loves the UK companies.

[Dre801]

New WipeOut game.  

Unlikely, but I'd like that.

[SaysWho?]

28 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Why? Because Jim Ryan loves the UK companies.

 

I'm sure he does, but to put my Sony professor glasses on :

 

Last decade, Evolution and Liverpool were closed, as well as the from-the-ground-up VR studio in Manchester that took too long to develop a game and had nothing to show for it. They needed to beef up their European presence anyway, and a VR dev for PSVR2 (a VR WipeOut or anything similar would be nuts considering how Wipeout Omega Collection was on VR) that has 250 employees is a sensible business move.

[SaysWho?]

Shinobi did a little digging and found Firesprite is working on two games:

 

 

[Brian]