Detroit: Become Human developer no longer makes PlayStation exclusives

Quantic Dream, the studio behind PlayStation games such as Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human, will stop making games exclusively for Sony. Chinese internet giant NetEase is investing in the studio and new games are coming to multiple platforms.

NetEase has taken a minority stake in Quantic Dream, co-founder David Cage said in an interview with VentureBeat. The amount invested by the Chinese publisher is unknown, but the money will allow the studio to hire more people, develop games and release them on multiple platforms.

Quantic Dream has been a studio financed by Sony for the past twelve years to release games exclusively on PlayStation consoles. Heavy Rain was released in 2010, Beyond: Two Souls followed in 2013, and Detroit: Become Human was released in 2018. The latter game sold about three million copies in eight months, according to Cage.

The French studio was founded in 1997 and will continue to operate independently after NetEase’s investment, according to the co-founder. Quantic Dream’s first game was Omikron: The Nomad Soul. That game came out in 1999 for the Dreamcast and Windows.

NetEase also invests in other studios, such as Bungie, the creators of Destiny. That $100 million investment was announced last year. Also, NetEase has a partnership with Blizzard to exploit games such as World of Warcraft and StarCraft in China. The Chinese company is one of the largest internet companies in the world with a turnover of 7 billion euros in 2017.