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WHAT IF… Sony acquired Ninja Theory? ⚔️ Heavenly Sword 2 👑 Nariko returns 🎬 Next-gen cinematic storytelling 🔥 Brutal, fluid combat 🌌 Built exclusively for PS6 A forgotten PlayStation icon reborn by its original creators. MAKE. THIS. HAPPEN.
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Sony would put them to work on a live-service title, cancel it, and then close them down.

The people who made Heavenly Sword aren't at the studio anymore. The people at Sony who saw VALUE in funding and releasing Heavenly Sword aren't at the company anymore either. Wake tf up. It's over.

Just to turn into live service slop and cancel it. Playstation can barely handle what they have currently

Bro, PlayStation closed Japan Studio and lost their soul "small" games have no place in the PlayStation catalog anymore, as they want only big blockbusters.

Bro I don't think they'll acquire anyone. They might outsource work but NT is notorious for having long dev times. If they dropped Kojima and previously Quantic Dream, what makes you think they'd wanna even acquire NT.

Sony broke. Couldn’t even afford Kojima

Their own fault for making “Mental Health” simulator when they could have done Heavenly Sword styled game or even a sequel to this

While I enjoy ninja theory games, and was looking forward to senua, I’m not sure how much I trust PlayStation with a studio of this talent. What live service slop can they make? I think the acquisition days are over for the foreseeable future, as painful as it is

Ninja Theory would have to prove they can make it on a shoestring budget, within a reasonable amount of time. They allegedly cost Xbox several hundreds of millions, and took several years to release Hellblade 2, which turned out to be more of a tech demo for UE5 and their fancy motion capture tech. Sony should’ve bought them after the first Hellblade released, instead of waiting for MS to grab them up.

They wouldn't make a heavenly sword 2, that would go against their policies. No, most likely Sony would use them to make a 3rd Senua game, spend 400 million, takes 5 years to make, and then sell 150k copies. Then close the studio and fire everyone.

If Sony aquires Ninja Theory, they'll be forcced to make Heavenly Sword 2 a live service hero shooter or extraction shooter, butcher what made the first great, and when the live service slop flops, close the studio down for good.

Not with that 🗑️ leadership

Sounds nice and all (I wanted another enslaved game) but sony needs to focus on their core ip they own that sells ...its clear with the kojima fallout, they money pinching and don't wanna throw cash around with what happen with concord and all

The people who made this game is probably long gone from Ninja Theory. That's why they only produce shit now.

Why would they acquire them that's a single player heavy studio and not a woke live service slop mill

Played Heavenly Sword recently... It has not aged well.

None of this would happen, you’re imaging the Sony from 20 years ago that’s just not gonna happen now lol

That be a dream come true! But I don't think NT is capable of doing another beauty like this.

Sony Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword sold terribly. A sequel was in the making, but Sony canceled it. Nobody wanted them, and neither did you all because you didn't support them. Now that they shut down, you all care about them.

sony would push more DEI make it live service cancel it before it comes out or a week after then tell them to go kick rocks . they wouldnt be allowed to make single player games period

Yea close down like blue point huh?

Their woke slop would be right at home at current day PlayStation so I guess it would make sense

The studio was looking for buyers, Sony could've stepped in right then and there, but they didn't. 🤷♂️

You absolutely DO NOT want to see Heavenly Sword 2 made under Sony in 2026... the girl would be in troon body, lesbian, no tits, maybe even black... let them close the studio!

You really think current Sony has any interest in the Heavenly Sword IP? Sony would only acquire them to do Bleeding Edge 2.

They aint acquiring anyone for awhile

Their games don’t sell. It would be a waste of money. No one is spending for AAA studios in 2026. Downsizing is the new meta.

Hellblade 2 took 5 years to develop with less than 10 hours of gameplay and people (not you) think Sony’s doing a good job dropping Physint for long development time.

And how will they explain this to the people who used to work at Bluepoint ?

i dont think Herman Hulst has the taste to make that kind of move.

I think everybody knows this is a bad take because you have Sony public enemy number 1 and you want them to own ninja theory and they will proceed to uglify female character and have her talk Down to the audience

Sony already bought a 3,5+ bil paperweight.

They spent 6 years making a tech demo , hellblade 2 (and yeah I did suffer through it's 7 hours of boredom) .. think Sony will pass !!
