Sony's Video Game Plans Leaked By Ransomware Group

Speaking of the 1.3 million stolen files of Sony division Insomniac Games that hackers have leaked, the data dump includes game roadmaps, budgets, and detailed information about Insomniac's upcoming Wolverine game, which a document says is slated for 2026. Bloomberg reports: According to the files, Sony plans to release several Marvel-inspired titles in the next decade, including Spider-Man 3, based on Venom and X-Men games. The files also reference a new Ratchet & Clank game apparently slated for 2029. Insomniac and Marvel's licensing commitment is as high as $621 million to develop and market the X-Men games by 2035, according to one document, which was one of many circulating on the internet. The documents also give us a peak into how Sony internally felt about Microsoft's acquisition of Blizzard. Eurogamer adds: Sony has privately described Microsoft's $68.7bn takeover of Activision Blizzard as a potential "leapfrog" moment for its long-term console rival to take the lead. Threats identified by Sony include Microsoft using Call of Duty to "disrupt and threaten console gaming and game subscription markets", with a potential "massive threat to PlayStation Plus." [...] "Activision provides incredible strategic value across live service games, scale in mobile and PC storefront (Battle.net)," Sony wrote, describing the various advantages Microsoft has now added to its portfolio with the deal freshly completed.

Holy fuck

[kamapuaa]

Who could have predicted that the company that owns rights to Spiderman and recently released a popular Spiderman 2 game would eventually plan on releasing Spiderman 3?

Now I wonder if there will ever be a PS6?

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[Calydor]

And who could have predicted that Sony would see the Microsoft-Activision merger as a potential problem?!

These 'reveals' all seem like just confirming what everyone with two brain cells would already have reasoned themselves to.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

Boy, these ransomware leaks are a true treasure trove of information!

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[bussdriver]

but Sony didn't make a huge push to stop the merger at least not openly. I seem to remember them saying something along the lines that they weren't worried during the legal hearings. Am I remembering wrong?

Seems like a useful leak but too late.

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[AmiMoJo]

It looks like Marvel is going to ditch the current failing MCU stuff and introduce the X-Men. With one of the key actors being dropped due to a domestic violence conviction, its future was in question already.

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[bestadvocate]

X-Men arcade cabinet still the GOAT of arcade cabinets in my book.

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[SirSpanksALot]

Only the big 6 player one

Honey pot data

[Hoi Polloi]

Time to start putting bogus data out on poorly secured servers. "Oooops! You got us!"

so many times

[awwshit]

Sony has been hacked a number of times over a long period of time. You'd think they would care more or try harder.

https://firewalltimes.com/sony... [firewalltimes.com]

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[93 Escort Wagon]

Well, the skill set Sony hires for is more in line with that of the ransomware hackers [wikipedia.org] - they don't have a lot of experience trying to protect stuff.

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[Tablizer]

Especially after Kimmie Un spanked them with a headline-making hack.

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[Saffaya]

I guess they care as much about their own security as they care about their customer's.

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[echo123]

Seriously! How is it they can still be hacked, you'd think corporate would have militarized SONY by now? Didn't getting massively hacked by North Korea [vox.com] teach them anything? How could that have been allowed to happen after the Playstation hack [wikipedia.org]? And now this?

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[Bahbus]

This is why if I'm going to game on a console, I prefer an Xbox. Does Microsoft get hacked? Yes. Does it (knowingly) happen as often as Sony? Seems not.

Otherwise, I'll stick to my PC gaming.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Sony has been hacked a number of times over a long period of time. You'd think they would care more or try harder.

Why would you think that?

Nothing bad happened to Sony the first few times. There is no reason to think that is going to suddenly be different for no reason.

They didn't lose anything monetarily, there were no fines or other legal consequences, and there wasn't any PR consequences - not even when their network was down the week of christmas and no one could sign into their brand new gifted playstations, all was forgiven and completely forgotten a couple weeks later.

I see absolutely no reason they would care

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[gweihir]

Sony has severe organizational dysfunction when it comes to IT security. This probably cannot be fixed.

Sony, just do what you did in 2014

[Rujiel]

when The Interview leaked.. blame North Korea! That way the dullard MSM won't even feel the need to issue a correction when it turns out a disgruntled insider did it, just like in 2014. Since no one cares what's true when you accuse a state enemy..