With Bungie remaining third party and independent, I was racking my head as to why Sony would even bother spending billions to "buy" Bungie. Who the hell spends BILLIONS to have no benefit? Then it hit me.... With both Microsoft and Tencent buying out numerous publishers and studios... Sony "buying" Bungie is an insurance policy. It's a damned expensive one at that. Basically, they want to ensure that Destiny and other games Bungie could make would remain on Playstation platforms. Secondly, it seems this deal veers well out of the realm of gaming and into TV, movies, comics, etc and I'm betting Sony is planning on making their money back in ways with Bungie IPs that are in other entertainment veins.
In case of MS buying Bungie, Destiny 2 would continue in PS. They wouldnt take it away from that console, it's a released game years ago.
What you're saying makes sense only with new upcoming games from Bungie (new ips that we dont know if they exist, I saw they have prepared content for Destiny 2 till 2024) and which they said they want to keep it multiplat anyway, but lets suppose they dont. Sony is spending half Bethesda only to maintain a future IP of Bungie? idk, I enjoyed 50 hours of Destiny 2's online, but the story seemed trashy to me. And Destiny probably the same, because they had to release a new game trying to make it better. You're not buying the Bungie that just released Halo series. You're buying the Bungie that release Destiny, failed and had to released Destiny 2 and then had to make it free to play.
So basically they are buying a future Bungie a game (a studio that did great games only 20-15 years ago) that will be release 2025 beyond? HALF BETHESDA for that? I just dont get it. If you spend 100-200-300 millions, ok, but 3.6 BILLIONS, and still multiplat?
If you wanted to make movies and series and so on (does anyone wants that? i mean, story of Destiny doesnt seem outstanding, it isnt Halo), you could make some deal I suppose. You dont have to buy it.
This movement it's so weird. I think they just said "hell boys, we gotta do something and we gotta do it FAST" and they just made the deal in 2 days. Bungie asked for a lot of money and impossible conditions so Sony rejects it, but they actually accepted lol.