Realistically, who could Sony buyout?

Realistically, who could Sony buyout?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ganker

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some dev you never heard of because they didn't make anything yet.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody really. They're about nintendo levels of poor. They can barely afford bungie.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can see them attempt to get Square Enix, especially is FF16 fails.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why would they buy Square Enix, when Square Enix is already their cheap prostitute?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Literally Square Enix.

        To make Square a even cheaper prostitute.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Because they own a bunch of recognizable IP. That is what these companies care about at the moment, especially with the success of video game movies recently.

          They're gonna buy Square Enix

          Y'all are idiots. SE already gives Sony all their biggest games. Sony's biggest gaming acquisition in the past few years is Bungie and that was their live service expertise. Playstation is making a huge push for GAAS games. If Sony are going for anyone, it would be MiHoYo.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Mihoyo aren’t a public traded entity and China would never fricking allow it. Also Mihoyo made 5 billion last year in revenue, they are completely out of Sony’s price range.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Not him but being publicly traded wouldn't matter, private companies can still be bought. But yeah, China doesn't allow foreigners to own domestic assets. And no, that's entirely different from being a shareholder before some schizo replies to me about some American company owning shares in a chink company.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            You’re the idiot thinking China would let a foreign company buy a company making a game that they have publicly called a great cultural export.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >every big name company is fricking terrible
    >get the big brain idea to combine so they all fail as one instead

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >monopolies
      >failing

      Born yesterday huh?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        If they make bad games because their main demographic is normalgays, they failed.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Your mom. It wouldn't cost them anything

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Kadokawa and Capcom
    Both have massive shares hold up in the company family, so zero chance of a full buyout. Both are doing well so the families won't sell.
    >S-E
    Sorta do-able, but the problem with S-E and Kadokawa in another sense is actually a monopoly on anime in some fashion. S-E, and obviously Kadokawa, have hands in manga, LN, anime etc and Sony having Aniplex, Funimation and CR already seems like it would cause issues. Like if Sony tied to buy Kadokawa, they would get manga magazines, LN companies, Yen Press etc and have a legit monopoly on moving Japanese manga/LNs/Anime to North American for instance.

    As singular studios, not that many independent ones around these days from all the buyouts between Sony, Microsoft, Tencent and Embracer.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    IO Interactive

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      What the frick is wrong with these guys

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >its for toast

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They could try for bandai namco, or koei tecmo.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >bandai namco
      How did you come to this conclusion?

      The funniest part is that people keep mentioning big Japanese companies, when they only bought some random western companies.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is bandi that big? I know Nintendo tried to buy them and couldn't

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Bandai Namco isn't just a gaming company. Same with Square Enix, Sega, Konami.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sony is in alot of those spaces already though, except maybe real estate.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I doubt Sony would be interested in toys and arcades

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    How about they spend $8 billion on making good medium scope video games?

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They're gonna buy Square Enix

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why? Final Fantasy can't even reach Horizon reported sales.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It could if they do bundles for them

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because they own a bunch of recognizable IP. That is what these companies care about at the moment, especially with the success of video game movies recently.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because Final Fantasy isn’t bundled with every console sold

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    None. They can use that money for time exclusives. The best they can do is buy upcoming devs in the hopes that they struck gold or whoever isn't own yet like let's say Behaviour Interactive. Everyone says square enix but they have no reason since they can just buy time exclusively.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that Square Enix sold all their former Eidos studios and IPs for $300 million to Embracer so that they could invest in NFTs, while half a year later Embracer sold movie rights for Tomb Raider to Amazon for $600 million.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Was it actually confirm Amazon bought for that much?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        $600M of some unknown currency. Embracer never said if it were dollars or whatever thing Sweden uses.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >600M
          Shouldn't have used the dollar sign

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        No. But it definitely wasn’t cheap either. Most reasonable estimates I saw were about $100 - $150m range. Still shows how bad Square is for selling it so cheaply.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          There are no reasonable estimates. People posting on Ganker and reddit won't count.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, it ended up being something like 100m bugers. Still decent but not a blowout like a lot assert

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It still is a lot when you factor that it was only the movie rights for Tomb Raider.

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Square is the most likely given the companies relationship. Outside of that, there really isn’t a good big company they could buy. Doubt they want Koei, Bamco or SEGA. Most of the western ones are too big. Ubisoft maybe??

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ubisoft has way too many fricking studios. It’s a massive worthless bloat to spend money on.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      If Sony bought Sega I would have to buy a PS5. Sega is the only company that would sway me to a particular company even if they’re a shadow of their former self

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        What for? Total War and Football Manager?

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    more journalists

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    A lot of theories here but is here a game company worker present?

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They spent almost $4 BILLION on fricking Bungie lol these people have no idea what they're doing
    expect them to way overspend on a couple shit studios

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    square enix

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    OT: At the studios mentioned by big companies, no matter in which industry now.
    Does anyone specially know if everyone can communicate with each other or how does that work?

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really hope they don't get any Japanese companies. It's nice having a few AAA studios around that aren't completely 100% pozzed

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Valve

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Capcom would be the smartest choice given how well they are doing financially and in popular opinion now. Also they would get a lot of beloved and dormant IPs to make remakes or whatever moronic shit they want. Taking Monster Hunter from Nintendo would be the cherrybon top.

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    So they have 10 billion dollars in the bank, give or take, after spending a bunch on Bungie. They can also leverage debt and stock dilution which will balance out the multiplier effect where there's a premium placed on a buyout deal of the marketcap of the brought company in question. I will assume means they can get to that 10 billion dollar mark or a bit more. Square Enix is the most likely answer at 6 billion but it could be difficult to get. Konami seems the most likely where the company is technically worth more than Square Enix but their video game holdings are worth a fraction of that and they aren't doing anything so it would make sense they would want to acquire that. Really the only other company that make sense is Sega. Everyone else is either family controlled or has video games too close to their other expertise like Kadokawa and their books and manga alongside games and Bandai Namco and their toys and games.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Really the only other company that make sense is Sega.
      >half of the company is a gambling company
      so much for realistic

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        So is Konami but you can always spin off the non-gaming part into another company as a subsidiary or not acquire that portion of it. You're never going to do it when gaming aligns very closely to their core interest with Kadokawa being into anime media in general and Bandai Namco being into toys.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Gaming part of Sega Sammy singlehandedly carried the company through the pandemic.
          You're delusional if you think they're separating.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Again, nothing is stopping the first spinoff scenario, it'll just be more expensive for Sony.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Without Sega there won't be Sammy at this point.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not arguing about the importance of the company's divisions as is but how it could be if Sony really wanted the Sega part of the company really badly and the capability to do so. Again, it's not like it's impossible to do, it would just be more hassle, time and money required to actually do the deed.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                In any case, I find it near impossible.
                Sega and Sammy merged specifically so both companies could coexist and pandemic proved them right and beyond Sonic I see no reason for Sony to be ever interested in Sega.
                >but Yakuza
                It barely sells 1 million copies worldwide. Their PC gaming division with Total War and Football Manager is an actual money maker along with Project Sekai

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Square

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Arc system works
    playstation all stars battle royale 2 soon

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    How are we feeling Sonybros..

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      PSVR2 Brothers!! we WON!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Balance of single player and live service
      Extreme doubt.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Doesn't matter even if true.

        It's like saying you've got a balance of life and eternal rape. One you maybe want, the other you don't ever want.

  27. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They'll buy baseded out companies past their prime like Naughty Dog. They already did that with Insomniac Games

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      *Baseded out. Sorry using phone.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        *Baseded out. Sorry still using phone

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          *Onions-ed out. Sorry can only use phone

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            autistic

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          being

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          fricking

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Stop

  28. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Please don't buy another crappy American company. Buy some small experimental studios like Asobo or a quality Chinese studio like one of tencents subsidiaries or the one working on Black Wukong.

  29. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Only thing I could think of is Square Enix.

  30. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >never ever but want it to happen tier
    Fromsoftware
    Sega
    Buyout Atlus and by extension Vanillaware from Sega
    >probably gonna happen tier
    Square Enix. They wanna be bought. And under new management Sony could theoretically supply higher quality AA games from them a la Ratchet, Astro, Sackboy and Returnal.
    Some Korean literally who studio, maybe the Chrono Oddysey gays
    Nihon Falcom

  31. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    CCP

  32. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It says right there dumbass, they're buying Chess.

  33. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They've already wasted a colossal sum on Bungie. I think they are actively trying to go out of business at this point.

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