{"id":115907,"date":"2022-02-01T02:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T07:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamertweak.com\/?p=115907"},"modified":"2022-02-01T02:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T07:14:53","slug":"halo-rights-sony-bungie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamertweak.com\/halo-rights-sony-bungie\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns Halo Rights As Sony Buys Bungie Games?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right after the big news of Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard, next comes the news of PlayStation buying Bungie Games. The gaming community seems split on their reaction towards this. Some fans are celebrating this was a big win from Sony in reaction to the Microsoft Scitvion Blizzard deal. But there are players who don’t care about Destiny 2, and not sure how Bungie will play a major role in PlayStion’s roadmap. For Xbox fans wondering who owns Halo rights as Sony buys Bungie games, and what happens to it, we will talk about all of them here.<\/p>\n

Who Owns Rights to Halo After Sony Buys Bungie Games?<\/h2>\n
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Microsoft owns the exclusive intellectual property rights to the entire Halo franchise even after Sony buys Bungie Games. Halo belongs to Microsoft as they bought Bungie Studios back in 2001. And even though Bungie became an independent company in 2007, the right to Halo still belongs to Microsoft and thus Xbox. Bungie was taken over by Microsoft to create Halo as their own FPS on their first Xbox. This turned out well as Halo become the console-defining killer app<\/strong> of that console generation.<\/p>\n

And for players wondering if this deal is due to recent acquisitions by Microsoft Bungie, then no. These deals take months to work out. So this was happening behind the scenes for many months till the acquisition was made public. Here’s a tweet from Christopher Dring,<\/strong> the man behind gamesindustry.biz:<\/p>\n

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The deal was in the works for the past 5\/6 months. Its not a reaction to the Take-Two\/Zynga or Microsoft\/Activision deals.<\/p>\n

— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) January 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n