Over the past few weeks, Sony has multiplied its investments in Kadokawa, parent company of FromSoftware, author of the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring. A few days after that substantial check drawn in favor of the Japanese giant, Hermen Hulst (SIE Worldwide Studio Head) has revealed the reasons behind this strategy, and with no small surprise we discover that video games are only a small part of the goal of this special investment.
Elden Ring
Over the last few years, the Japanese giant has financed productions such as Uncharted, which debut on the big screen after a life of luck in the video game sector. Now Sony’s intention is to push further on the accelerator of this sector, with new films likely on the horizon. There is a lot of talk, for example, of an adaptation for the big screen of Days Gone, a third-person action that debuted in 2018 on PS4. The next few years will likely be crucial to understanding which productions will be launched, not only by Sony but also by third parties. A clue could be Amazon, which has already kicked off production of a Fallout TV series, as well as HBO, which is working on the adaptation of The Last of Us for the small screen.
The future video games will really be that rosy even in the cinema? Hard to say. The first attempts were certainly not successful, but the example of Halo could pave the way for an idea of productions made much better than in the past. The future, in this case, is still all to be written.