List of All of Microsoft's Studios Must Impress Sony

Source: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios.

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Acquisition of the holding company Activision Blizzard by Microsoft resulted in the latter taking possession of numerous gaming brands - such as Diablo, Warcraft or Call of Duty - but also a number of talented development studios. If we juxtapose them with the teams that previously came under the wing of the Redmond giant, we find that theit number has increased to 40.

Both the number and the names behind it must be impressive even - or perhaps especially? - for the rival Sony. After all, the PlayStation Studios family consists of "only" 23 teams.

Below you can check out which development studios are currently owned by Microsoft and Sony. Some of them can be found in the following infographic by Reddit GerardKrab. However, it is not complete - 7 teams are missing: 4 from Activision Blizzard and 3 from PlayStation Studios.

Therefore, I have posted the complete list below it. By clicking on the name of a particular studio, you will find out what games it has made so far or is currently developing. In case we do not have a particular company in the database, you will find additional information about it in parentheses next to its name.

If there is any conclusion to be drawn from this compilation, it is probably that thanks to many years of cooperation, Sony has given rise to several excellent studios. I am referring here to Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, Santa Monica Studio, Guerrilla Games or Polyphony Digital. Microsoft, meanwhile, bought out its currently strongest teams after they had already achieved global success.

There are also a few fun facts thrown in. For example: Crash Bandicoot, originally a Sony brand, is now owned by the Redmond giant, while Bungie, which launched Microsoft's Halo series, is now under the Sony umbrella... but you probably already know that.

Source: Reddit / GerardKrab.

Microsoft studios

ZeniMax Media

1. Bethesda Softworks
2. id Software
3. ZeniMax Online Studios
4. Roundhouse Entertainment (formerly Human Head Studios)
5. Alpha Dog Games
6. Tango Gameworks
7. Arkane Studios
8. Machine Games

Activision Blizzard

1. Blizzard Entertainment
2. Infinity Ward
3. Sledgehammer Games
4. Treyarch
5. Raven Software
6. Toys for Bob
7. High Moon Studios
8. Radical Entertainment
9. Beenox
10. DemonWare (support for work on network modes, creation of technolgies)
11. King
12. Digital Legends Entertainment
13. Solid State Studios (among others Call of Duty Warzone Mobile)
14. Activision Shanghai Studio (support for the Call of Duty series)
15. Blizzard Albany (formerly Vicarious Visions)
16. Proletariat

Xbox Game Studios

1. 343 Industries
2. Double Fine Productions
3. Obsidian Entertainment
4. Turn 10 Studios
5. inXile entertainment
6. The Initiative
7. Undead Labs
8. World's Edge
9. The Coalition
10. Compulsion Games
11. Ninja Theory
12. Playground Games
13. Rare
14. Mojang Studios

PlayStation Studios

1. Naughty Dog
2. Santa Monica Studio (most installments of the God of War series)
3. Sucker Punch Productions
4. Bend Studio
5. Insomniac Games
6. San Diego Studio
7. Bluepoint Games
8. Firewalk Studios
9. Valkyrie Entertainment
10. Haven Studios
11. Team Asobi
12. Polyphony Digital
13. Guerrilla Games
14. Nixxes Software
15. London Studio
16. Media Molecule
17. Firesprite
18. Savage Game Studios (founded in 2022, developing its first production - AAA live-service game)
19. Housemarque
20. Bungie
21. San Mateo Studio (collaborates with other teams, created, among others Rise to Honour)
22. XDev Studio
23. Fabrik Games