Names on the List:
>Capcom
>Konami
>Square Enix
>Ubisoft
Which of these would make the biggest impact? Which would you like to see?
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SONY to AQUIRE more STUDIOS
How much would they each cost?
Sony's Aquisition budget is $13B
How do you get the value?
Capcom would be 8.2B
Square Enix would be 5.2B
Konami would be 6B
Ubisoft would be 3.5B
Question is, which do you want with the 13B budget?
Could they not just buy out the videogame side of Konami and let Konami itself keep on dealing with the pachinko and all that?
I'd go for Konami and Ubisoft to secure the IP. The kids today won't understand how much unused shit Konami has.
Square Enix are already pretty much PlayStation exclusive so i don't think acquisition is necessary.
Acquisition would save them exclusivity costs and let them take 100% of the profits from the games Square makes. It's not just about exclusivity.
Konami is trying to start it's redemption arc as we speak.
konami is outsourcing their ips to new developers. they have no internal development capabilities anymore
>Delta Snake Eater
inb4 Virtuous
they're support studio, who also worked on MGSV
what internal studio is going to handle it? konami doesn't just have a bunch of programmers and artist sitting around doing nothing the past 10 years
>konami doesn't just have a bunch of programmers and artist sitting around doing nothing the past 10 years
they literally just opened a massive game dev facility with motion capture studio and they plan opening up another "next gen" studio in 2 years
ok so who is developing sigma then? one of these next gen studios they are opening in two years?
they didn't get rid off their development teams.
former Kojima Productions is still at Konami
Those are all new hires. People who made Silent Hill or Metal Gear or Castlevania are long gone and people who made them are still making games.
is that why Ito is calling people morons for telling him they know better than him about Silent Hill 2 and remake?
Ito is a hack and SH2 Demake will be shit. No idea why you showed him as an example. Without Kojima or Kojima's team rather we saw how Konami's MGS turned out to be with Survive lol.
Survive sold more than mgs5 because it wasnt filled with kojima cringe. The only reason anyone outside of japan bought mgs was cause they were bait and switched by having a gruff american soldier man on the cover and then when they played the game it was a japanese soap opera and they never played the series again. Without kojima mgs will flourish.
>Survive sold more than mgs5
LMOA.
>Without kojima mgs will flourish.
One thing I can give him credit for is tying up almost all the loose ends he made over the years. There is nothing a MGS game can follow besides little time frame between Big Boss' disappearance after MSF incident and Outer Heaven. Which doesn't even warrant it's own game. Sony would do nothing but remakes of old games if they acquired them or rebooting the series altogether for western sensibilities.
capcom would be well over 10b
It's actually 8.2b. The valuation is easy to determine.
naw, based on the activision deal the valuation is 12b
Source? Financial statements suggest $8.2B.
>Financial statements
what does that even mean? the fiscals when you consider the activision deal say 12b. (capcom proft/activition profit) * 69b = 12b. apply general valuation methods makes no sense in this case.
I want to see them buy Konami just so somebody can save Konami's IPs from pachislot hell.
Companies never sell themselves for their market cap, fricking moron.
People love to forget that Sony paid over double Bungie was actually worth.
ubi weighs way less than 3.5B holy shit, they are failing each new game they are making, their only stable source of income is rainbow six shit and maybe the ass creed games for a limited time window at release
Ubi's problem is that they have no GAAS game to support them unlike the other companies. EA makes more than every other publisher thanks to just FIFA alone.
no, ubi's problem is that they have 20k employees. for reference nintendo has 10k and capcom has 3k
It would be in their best interest to cement Ubisoft and Squeenix, the former is still one of the larger western companies and Squeenix is obviously more interested in putting their shit on PlayStation than any other platform.
For Sony's sake, they better buy Square Enix and Ubisoft. They're pretty much in the gutter compared to other big wigs and their IP selection are pretty diverse. Ubisoft is a bit tricky though considering the employee bloat.
SE is the worst case scenario for anime. Sony only needs an IP rights holder and manga publisher in order to achieve 100% monopoly of the anime industry and if they buy SE that would give them total control.
Square and Ubisoft would kill Sony.
No one wants a Square Enix game as they’ve all been trash since FF13.
Apart from XIV I guess and Ubisoft has tonnes of debt.
Final Fantasy sells millions of copies everytime, despite what Gankerirgins say.
Wow 3m copies of XVI that then dropped hard.
Not even Yoshida could get XVI to sell like they used to.
But again that’s Square Enix fault selling out to Sony yet again when the Yoshida XIV cult is all on PC.
It's only been out 2-3 weeks.
The sales have already dropped by 76% lmao
Probably more than that now.
>ubi
>3 billion
Why the FRICK did they spend that same amount on just Bungie? Isn't Ubi way fricking bigger?
Yeah well they have 20k+ employee and shit ton of debts, too much baggage.
Ubisoft is the better investment but it needs some work. Sony would have to pay their debt and probably fire some staff because they have over 20,000.
they can't acquire a studio in europe then fire a bunch of employees. the european government wouldn't allow it
Bungie more likely to get snapped up by microsoft
Konami has the best library of IPs in the history of gaming, but they’ve also neglected or outright destroyed them as brands for years now. You’d not only be buying Konami but also having to invest in rebuilding their entire games development infrastructure and rehabilitating the reputation of their IPs. And no, hiring some shitters like Bloober Team to remake Silent Hill 2 isn’t the way to go about that, but that’s exactly how Sony under their current leadership would go about things. So you’d need new Sony management too.
>Konami has the best library of IPs in the history of gaming
What other than MGS, Silent Hlil, Contra, Castlevania and Bomberman? Not many heavy hitters here, no way you'd call these the best in the "history of gaming".
Konami and Capcom.
Buying the Metal Gear and Silent Hill IPs off of Konami would be a smarter choice than buying the entire company.
I'm shocked Sony didn't buy them way back in the PS2 era. I could see them buying the IPs and having La Creatividad frick them up once and for all.
Brute force buying IPs is more of a Microsoft/EA (both their gaming divisions have some connective history too) kind of thing. Japan didn't really have a concept of that, they more of just had strong arm Yakuza deals for exclusive runs or releases. Even Nintendo let Rare get through their hands, they just have a very different mindset about business and loyalty than the west. It's why Sony is caught with its ass down when Microsoft is doing a repeat of what they did in the first Xbox gen. Everyone in the west realizes media IP monopoly and consolidation is going to be the future winner 20 - 30 years from now and I guess you can vaguely argue Disney lit the match for the modern version of that war.
>$13B
Im interested to know where you pulled that number from shitposter-san
Konami is unironically the only real choice. Square could he too but I'm sure they would ask more than 13B
Sony can't afford any of these. A more realistic list:
OMOCAT
Tour de Pizza
Daedalic Entertainment
Are they planning on buying a studio with any good games?
Wtf is this stupid shit?
angery bandana
It's been there since MGS2 and has gotten more prominent in every game since, barring MGSV where it was smooth again.
The plastic surgeon forgot to give it to v
a newbie filter
Just coomsoom homosexual, don't question anything
snek if he reel
the equivalent of a woman's shirt contorting to her breasts
You can't do that with your eyebrows, stupid shit.
No I'm saying it's stupid in both cases.
TMNT energy
metal gear grade tactical bandana with built in codec + aio cooling system
Shit tradition since mgs4
I want to have what you are smoking OP
>he doesn't have forehead abs
ngmi
rule of cool
I can't see Capcom selling, they're already insanely profitable. Konami is possible and it might help push them to make more games, or even just have Sony acquire the IPs and outsource much of it. Konami may sell just their video game division and keep their gambling/gaming division separate.
Squeenix feels feasible. I think FFXVI underperformed but they keep taking exclusivity deals anyway, so it seems like they're trying to shore up development budget via those deals. Feels like they might need some financial help.
No idea where Ubisoft is financially nowadays.
Squeenix is still racking in money with stupid gacha games. Out of the 4 Ubi is definitely the weakest but most of their games are multiplats so I don't know.
Konami seems viable and likely
Why would Sony need Yu Gi Oh?
why wouldn't they want to d-d-d-d-d-d-duel?
Not a single Japanese company will ever want to be acquired by Sony.
It's okay when Sony does it.
Microsoft just spent 65 BILLION. Its only fair that Sony spends a little.
Holy shit your such a loser
But I thought industry consolidation was bad thing???
They’re salty snoy drones.
What did you expect.
Sony should buy Nintendo
If they'll spend $300M on a single moviegame they'll be more than happy to drop $20B to buy SquaREEEEEEEEnix. Eat the slop.
Konami doesn't make games anymore, ubisoft is meh, square enix is the worst one and I doubt Capcom would accept being bought out
Konami doesn't make games but they own several well loved IPs such as Castlevania, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, Ganbare Goemon, Contra, and Bomberman. If you own Konami, you own their IPs.
>Konami is trying to start it's redemption arc as we speak.
No they fricking aren't. They are shitting out shameless cashgrab collections and outsourced remakes and only to keep their foot in the door and give the illusion that they still give a frick. They don't.
sony doesn't need more ips they aren't going to do anything with
Ubisoft because I want them run into the ground.
Maybe Square for the same reason.
Maximum cope.
Snoy is so pathetic
Microsoft doesn't realize they just awoke a sleeping giant. Remember when Nintendo betrayed Sony and got destroyed for over a decade? It's Microsoft's time...
I doubt many Ganker users are old enough to remember the Sony and Nintendo war.
Sony don't frick around when they're backed into a corner.
You mean that Sony are pieces of shit that bought out third party exclusives and drove Sega out of the industry and profited from console piracy.
>exactly what Microsoft are trying to do
The lack of self awareness here.
>He thinks im defending Microsoft
>he thinks he's not
Seethe. PS1 and PS2 were the golden eras of gaming
Yes?
That's exactly what he means. Nobody's saying what Sony's about to do is good, but the precedent set as it is, things will only get worse
I think even Nintendo might get in on it and try and secure shit that they might consider worth securing.
show us on the doll where Sony touched you because you sound like a b***h who got fricked
Absolutely moronic.
Sony will be fine, they will still have COD, GTA, FIFA and your movie games. That's all that snoys play anyway. They won't buy shit.
>Nintendo wronged Sony
Nice fake history bullshit, Sony always had their eyes on video games.
They purposely gimped the SuperFamicom audio chips samples so they pitch the Super Famicom CD to Nintendo. The SFC CD deal was complete utter shit, Sony gets most of the software sales and complete controll of the approval process. It was a deal designed to eventually gobble up Nintendo.
SEGA for example got a better deal from JVC andHitachi.
cope tendie
>Noo don't call out my fake revisionist history
Let me guess you think the 32X was also Sega of Japans baby?
literally every piece of media I've read or watched during that time says Nintendo betrayed Sony for Phillips
Ken Kutaragi secretly developed the sound chip moron
Yes and? They purposely shipped shittier sound samples so they could pitch the Super famicom CD in the first place. No fart trumpets and Nintendo wouldn't even bothered with SFC CD.
Why you and? me fricking moron. Secretly developing means he was not ordered by Sony to create a chip for a console, it contradicts with yor quote stating that Sony was interested in gaming even before the betrayal.
>Secretly developing
>I allocated corporate funds from other projects into my black ops operation
Point and laugh at this complete utter imbecile
>This fricktard denies the truth.
Just fricking have a nice day Black person, you are an embarrassment to your whole family and to anybody here who needs to engage into a conversation with you.
You are a complete utter gullible simpleton who believes in cult of personality drivel. Sure it makes for a nice myth but, that's about it.
You have no evidence to back up your claim that it was not a secret but your own ass you fricking clumsy little piece of braindead trash. Oh Sony really interested in gaming for eternity, frick you trash.
unlikely, the old man won't sell and even if he would someone would outbid sony
basically just ip with no development resources. considering it comes along with a billion dollar pachinko company this one is unpractical
Enix
possible. this would give sony more influence in japan. it wouldn't be cheap but sony has the money for it and I don't think any competitors want it as bad as sony wants it
risky considering how bloated they are. sony spends a lot on development already, taking on 20k new employees with european wages and taxes seems unwise.
>Which would you like to see?
why would anyone like to see any of these
>yes i would like my capcom games on less systems please
- the musings of a deranged psychopath
>a deranged psychopath
that's console wars for you
sony fanatics see this acquisition as a personal defeat and want to see "their side" pull a no u to heal their shattered pride
Hasn't Ganker been full of people laughing at Sony for losing Call of Duty for the past year now?
But suddenly, when a game you care about is threatened, the people laughing are now deranged psychopaths?
Weird how that works.
>But suddenly, when a game you care about is threatened
>the people laughing are now deranged psychopaths?
Literally no one believes in them, except for deranged psychopaths, yes.
See
Somehow you snoys managed to convince themselves that CP77 DLC will be Sony exclusive, despite the fact Microsoft had marketing deal for CP77 and Sony removed CP77 from PS Store for months.
>snoys
Way to out yourself. You're sounding a little deranged yourself.
Are you aware of what your spacing in all those posts implies?
That I'm not an ESL and understand grammar.
What in the flying frick does reddit spacing have to do with being ESL?
I don't even know what "reddit spacing" is. But the fact that you're obsessing over it probably tells me you use reddit.
And the fact you're so upset about "snoy" word is a sign of your mental illness.
>SONY to AQUIRE more STUDIOS
snoytrannies on suicide watch (more than usual)
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Capcom is too profitable and aren't total frick ups. They don't sell.
Konami is also profitable thanks to gambling. They don't sell.
Square-Enix could be likely, but they don't have much left outside of Final Fantasy and Dragon's Quest, but they seem to have a better relationship with Nintendo and not Sony
UbiSoft is dire, but I imagine Microsoft scoops them and has already circled them a few times.
The biggest on all of these is that they have nothing new to offer and all the old stuff is already everywhere.
You have to be willingly ignorant to think Square has a better relationship with Nintendo than Sony
Companies want to actively avoid Ubisoft. They are ladened with debt to the point that you are losing more than you gain with the acquisition
Really? Care to fill me on some more on that? I always thought Ubisoft was doing fine since while all their new games are trash normies eat that shit up like mad.
Ubisoft actually tried selling itself off a few months ago, but litteraly no one wanted to be burdened with all it's bullshit. Maybe if Ubisoft continues to decline someone will buy it up, but it will be for a very steep discount
https://www.levelup.com/en/news/720303/It-seems-that-Ubisoft-has-tried-to-sell-itself-but-the-buyers-laugh-at-it
SE "owns" Dragon Quest in the same capacity they "own" Kingdom hearts.
And, are you fricking high, SE is Sony's #1 dicksucker, they would throw Nintendo under the bus if both were bidding (even if Nintendo's offer were higher)
>SE "owns" Dragon Quest in the same capacity they "own" Kingdom hearts.
what
>they seem to have a better relationship with Nintendo
Nah, SE is Sony's onaho, but it seems that Asano is on a good term with them. It would be funny af if Nintendo decides to just poach him and his team, which is what they would normally do.
All of those studios are sony centric. They don't need to acquire them. If Sony acquired Take-Two interactive on the other hand...
This is the only acquisition that makes sense if they want to fight with Microsoft.
Sony has no business buying and cucking japanese studios more than they already have.
Take Two market cap is 25B.
Sony cannot afford them ever. They have only 8bn in accusation money.
Take Two would not sell anyways because GTA VI is going to make them so much more money.
Sony has a confirmed 13 Billion, moron. That's in cash.
They COULD aquire Take Two but it would take almost all available resources to make it happen.
Acquiring Take Two is a fever dream for Sony dumbass. You need Market cap + extra for a good deal. So probably looking at 35b or more.
Take Two won’t sell to anyone though because they’re making shit loads of money by themselves.
>They COULD aquire Take Two but it would take almost all available resources to make it happen.
If I was Sony I would've gone for it. GTAVI console exclusivity would be far far far better than Acti-Blizzard or even Bethesda themselves. GTAV's sales are more than double of Overwatch-Diablo series AND TES series combained(not more than Call of Duty series though). Excluding shark cards.
Won’t happen, shareholders would rip Take Two a new one.
Mostly because GTA VI is multiplatform and the most anticipated game out there. The sales projections for the game are a lot and I don’t see Take Two selling exclusivity for it at all no matter how much money someone throws at them. Not Sony nor Microsoft.
You snoys need to understand how the world works.
Take-Two
might as well buy Epic or EA if they get a money printer working.
What would be the point of owning Take Two? The moment Sony would make GTA exclusive, investors would piss their pants and MS might retaliate with CoD and Minecraft
Microsoft is already going to pull cod the first chance they get. It doesn't matter
they wont you are completely stupid if they did no ones going to trust Microsoft for going back on what they promised in court.
First of all, your English is terrible. Secondly, I said "first chance they get" which means when the contract expires, obviously. Sony buying take 2 and making gta6 an exclusive wouldn't invalidate that contract. In summary, do the needful sir
Did MS pull Minecraft or any other game?
They can and will make CoD on Playstation the inferior version (delayed content, higher price tag), but they will be cautious or it was the last acquisition in that industry for MS.
If Sony were smart they would make actual games instead of throwing money at a fan or shove it all down Naughty Dogs ass.
CoD might be dead in 10 years.
While it still performs fine there have been a lot of games in recent years that make CoD look irrelevant in comparison.
They pulled starfield, their litteral biggest game of the year. moron
starfield never had a history of being a multiplatform title and they never announced the platforms before acquisition
It litteraly was ment to be on playstation before Xbox bought it, you are just lying. Same for hifi rush, they litteraly made a playstation port but had to get rid of it when they got acquired
>It litteraly was ment to be on playstation before Xbox bought it
Did they officially announce it? No.
Funnily enough, Sony tried to make it PlayStation console exclusive, which triggered the Microsoft acquisition.
>they litteraly made a playstation port but had to get rid of it when they got acquired
Nice fan fic, they never said anything about the game actually being on PS4, only about being planned for.
Even if they announced it was supposed to be a Sony exclusive, doesn't change the fact that its a new ip nobody gives a shit about other than it being made by the Fallout/Skyrim devs.
Remember when Game Freak made a game that is not Pokemon?
Sony has the 'Halo' devs and made Destiny
Game freak didnt spend a decade making it, and didn't have a budget of 100+ million to make it. moron
>and didn't have a budget of 100+ million to make it. moron
moving the goalpost
Is Sony entitled to any game with a budget of over 100 million?
Did Sony pay for the 100 million budget?
Redfall, Forspoken shit the bed and both names are more worthless than 343 Halo games.
The moment Starfield turns out to be a mediocre game you don't care anymore because its Microsofts money down the drain.
Because starfield is a major release, and those shovelware game freak games aren't. You are either stupid or trolling
>Because starfield is a major release, and those shovelware game freak games aren't.
I remember when Sony considered Demon's Souls a terrible game and refused to publish it in the west
I accept your concession
>Game Freak
>shovelware
yes, but how is that different to Sony's big budget bundles?
>names on the list
>japanese game studio
>japanese game whatever
>japanese game publisher
sure, that's what Sony is going to aim for
Do the Microsoft fans ITT realise that they could never aquire a Japanese company?
I swear people here don't understand anything beyond surface.
>Do the Microsoft fans ITT realise that they could never aquire a Japanese company?
>Tango
>Capcom
Doubtful. Capcom is highly profitable and isn’t looking for a buyer.
>Konami
Dicey. Konami makes a ton of money through pachinko and slot machines, but their gaming sector has stagnated. Sony may negotiate buying the rights to Konami’s IPs while keeping Konami’s gambling operations as a separate entity.
>Square Enix
Unnecessary. Square Enix already has a cozy relationship with Sony.
>Ubisoft
NOBODY wants Ubisoft.
Doubt. Capcom is fine as it is.
Why the frick you guys are obsessed with Konami? Who cares if they are sitting on good IPs? People who made them are long gone. If anything they should buy KojiPro and revive Japan studios(which had ex Silent Hill members).
>Square Enix
Most plausable one because Square can't live without sucking Sony's dick for more than 2 seconds.
>Ubisoft
Plausable too but I doubt. Yves Guillemot would rather want to sell it to highest bidder which will most likely be M$.
How??
They wasted their money "stealing" 3rd parties, youtubers, streamers and gaming journalists... Get real. Snoy is dead.
>Capcom
I'll hang myself. They're the only ones left making big budget games I actually enjoy.
>Konami
This is a no lose scenario since the Konami situation probably couldn't get worse
>Square Enix
Honestly could go either way, the upper management at Square clearly is fricking moronic but that doesn't mean i trust fricking sony with them either
>Ubisoft
haven't played a ubi game since 2015 so i don't care one way or the other
>Konami
They aren’t going to sell right before Japan gets a bunch of giga casinos, who are all probably going to use Konami’s back of house shit since they are the only Japanese company making that stuff.
ITT:
>I dont like Sony so all those acquisitions would be bad
I hate fanboys so much its unreal. Why can't we talk about gaming shit ffs.
I see Microsoft acquiring capcom. I don't see anyone acquiring ubisoft because of tencents influence. I could see Sony acquiring the other two though.
you know snoys are getting desperate when they're starting to mention Konami.
when Microsoft announced Bethesda acquisition, Konami started trending on twitter lmao
>Spend 18 months b***hing about monopolies and bad they are for the consumers
>deal goes through
>LETS START MONOPOLIZING THE INDUSTRY
Just another example of how disingenuous Sony was from the start. It's amazing how this company has people defending it for free.
It's almost like the deal shouldn't have gone through... It sets a moronic precedent and the Judge will go down in history as ruining the industry
The judge saw right through Sony's bullshit. They never gave a shit about the consumers, they were just concerned about their COD profits and there isn't a single good argument for why this acquisition constitutes a monopoly of any kind. Keep seething.
The judge was a typical female short sighted and based her decisions on "muh females". What it really means for consumers is that they're going to be fricked if they don't support whatever company can afford to buy the games they want. And even then they're going to get homogenized slop to cover the costs of buyouts
*muh feelings
Realistically, they have to now that Microsoft have started buying mega studios.
Realistically they can't outspend microsoft so if their only hope is buying studios they are doomed
>anon learns why court cases are so important
homie you do what you can to survive. It's why the deal was so terrible for the industry in the first place
>Terrible
Only to Sony ponies who still have to pay $70 for COD games.
For everyone else it’s a positive change.
Nintendo get COD on their next console.
Game pass users don’t have to pay $70 for COD on day one.
Diablo on Gamepass most likely.
World of Warcraft on Xbox could be a possibility.
Due to EUs rules every streaming site can now get a license for Xbox and now Activision games.
Employees switch over to the Microsoft model which is much better for them as a whole.
The only gays who say it’s not a good deal are clear Sony suck up c**ts.
>muh goypass
>muh cloudshit
You will own nothing and you will be happy, xcuck
>Nintendo get COD on their next console.
lol
lmao
I accept your concession
There was no precedent of a console maker buying a major third party studio that actually has a huge market share before this
I don't think Xbox and Sony are going to buy big studios anytime soon being honest just because of the scrutiny that happened.
Microsoft just completed a 65 Billion Dollar acquisition...
Has there actually been any recent Japanese company acquisition yet? Funnily enough the only one I can remember is Nintendo and SRD
Sega and Atlus
Is anyone surprised the USA is a shithole ran by the largest corporations? It should have been evident when Disney was allowed to buy literally everything in the last decade
My guess is that they will try to buy EA Games (EA minus the sports games).
Interesting that Xbox fans are celebrating the 65B Activision Blizzard deal but the possibility of PlayStation getting Konami rattles them.
Make it make sense.
This is exactly why the deal was pushed against. Now that it's gone through, there's gonna be a frenzy of studio purchases. It ruins gaming.
homie you can fricking have Konami lmao
None of the people who actually worked on the IPs even work there anymore.
Sony would own all of Konamis IPs and they have a good relationship with Kojima.
Then there's all the classic IP...
Dumbass do you realize that Konami is FAR more than Kojima shit? And if we're about good relationships guess what Japanese publisher was the Second best publisher (behind Nintendo themselves) in Japan in 2022? And why?
like?
They have
>Health and Sports Clubs
>Panchinko and Casino machines
>Infrastructures
>Trading Cards (Yu-Gi-Oh)
Kojima has expressed he doesn’t want to work on Metal Gear ever again.
You fricks don’t even know anything about the shit you try and say
Sony should take Ubisoft since Ubisoft already makes games with ugly female characters so nothing would be lost that way
All Sony has to do is secure exclusivity on games that normies enjoy.
If they made a deal with EA for their football games they'd have everyone but North America on lock. They could also develop this relationship by pushing Battlefield as a competitor to COD.
Never going to happen because big normie games like that make much more money staying Multiplatform.
Imagine telling EA that they’d miss out on FUT money because the game is now exclusive to PS.
EA would laugh and tell you to frick off.
>All Sony has to do is secure exclusivity on games that normies enjoy
That's a temporarily solution. The games will eventually end up on Microsoft's platforms if they don't permanently buy devs and publishers to keep them off. They need long term answers if they want to compete with the massive backlog of games Microsoft is going to be able to offer on Game Pass. Sony has nothing, all their big hits are 3rd party that they do not own. It's not like Nintendo where they could release their entire backlog of first party games on NSO all at once if you own a Switch 2 and people would flip out and jerk off for 10 years straight and go and buy the console immediately.
>we're going to see a repeat of the 90s where Sony easily defeats everyone because they got slighted
Kino
I can see Xbox being the Sega role this time. Microsoft clearly can't compete with Sony and Nintendo for hardware.
They'll have to shill the game pass on other people's systems.
That's never happening again because they are nolonger solely competing with two companies whose sole revenue consists of video games, arcades and toys.
SNOYS love to cry about Microshits larger capital portfolio selling themselves as some kind of moms and pops store.
Meanwhile in reality they didn't contribute jack shit to video games.
Square Enix might as well be exclusive/owned, since they give no fricks about their terrible ports.
>snoys think companies will just agree to be bought
>stockholders don't like free money
You know this board is full of ponies when once the ftc shit got turned down an influx of Sony "acquires" threads pop up
Those piss face anal vore fricks never left did they
Sony board. Always was.
Konami's entire business model is half based around putting out modestly budgeted Japanese appeal games for easy money. A studio that just had its single best selling game in Japan of all time with Momotaro Dentetsu (a Switch exclusive) is not going to allow itself to be sold to a company like Sony that doesn't mean shit in Japan anymore.
not sure why you cucks want so badly for games to get restricted by corporations
are you just trying to justify your purchase of shitty kids toy that way?
big corporation acquiring game studios is the worst thing that could happen to gaming just look at what EA did with most of the cool game studios and their forgotten now IPs then they try to sell you slop like Anthem that is some corporate AI training program
I bet Jim Cryan smashed up his office after knowing all his crying he did for the past year or so meant absolutely nothing.
No, he's sweating looking at the 12 GAAS he had green light and praying one of them does well
>put all his eggs in the gaas basket trying to make easy money
>now has to come up with exclusives to move consoles instead
hilarious. we might be looking back on jim ryan like we do don mattrick.
Get it right.
>Focused on profits from COD
>Now those profits may take a hit due to Xbox pulling all the exclusive shit off PS.
The greatest meme from this is that PS “exclusives” that they cream their pants to don’t do well.
They were probably off buying Mihoyo right before Genshin got big instead but here we are. Every one of those GAAS games are going to be a pozzed clone of some other popular GAAS title and no gamer is going to end up playing them like with Destruction All Stars. Sony needs to go back to their roots fast, appeal to the degenerates, the otakus, and the coomers like Nintendo did after the Wii U. Give the gamers some fricking games instead of giving the casuals movies. If they put some sex appeal into Returnal it would have been a cult classic instead of largely forgotten, fricking morons running these companies don't even get their base.
Except Microsoft apparently does because they keep bringing over weeb game after weeb game while Sony sits around doing nothing despite owning 90% of the Western anime industry and letting Microsoft have Crunchyroll(which Sony owns) as part of their subscription package while Sony doesn't even include that in their own. God I hope Jim Ryan gets fired.
Big flashy graphic movie games is what get the normies to cream their pants to.
Doesn’t matter if the gameplay is shit. They rely heavily on EGS to continue to do.
I love it when Ganker makes shit up that sounds like retroactive wishful thinking.
Remember when Thomas Edison almost bought Tesla, right before Elon acquired it?
Microsoft doesn't give a shit about short term profits. Game pass itself is obviously a loss leading strategy. They like to sit on ips simply so Sony can't have them
They won’t because snoy drones don’t like GAAS games.
Though I can’t blame them Sony have never put out a good GAAS.
They're pivoting way too fricking hard. From all that gloating with the cinematic single player games then suddenly ditching them for GAAS out of the ass.
i bought a PS3, PS4 and PS5 because of Square Enix so that one would change nothing
Is this the desperation thread?
Profitable companies are not looking to sell.
Activision wanted to sell.
These companies don't, especially not for market price ie what Sony could afford.
Konami would welcome Sony tbf.
If you know absolutely anything about Konami, you'd know that they've been trying to get put of real game development for years. They want to be a pachinko company.
Let Sony make games with the IP and you can still make the Pachinko. It's win win.
Yeah I too can’t wait for walking simulator Silent Hill which becomes a linear hallway sim with 50m cutscenes.
What a great way to kill Konami IPs
Better than nothing being made.
Cope
>Cope
What cope?
If you actually read their investors relations files, you would know, that Konami barely made money in comparison to every other branch of Konami, and they had to merge it with arcades in like 2017-2018, you mouth breathing reddit moron.
It's all publicly available data.
Consider jumping off bridge, literal sheep.
>that Konami barely made money in comparison to every other branch of Konami,
*pachinko barely made money
Copium
>If you know absolutely anything about Konami
>They want to be a pachinko company.
Stop watching Yong or reading reddit, holy fricking shit.
Their two train games made them more money than all of square in Japan
They're doing fine
>snoys are so desperate they want snoy to buy fricking ubishit
Best timeline
why with sonyhomosexuals and delusional cope threads?
I love the dipshits still convinced that all Konami makes is Pachinko.Stuff like the Yu-Gi-Oh titles or eBaseball, which are have consistently kept them profitable in the past few years just go under the radar because "lol Konami machines" is all these people know.
You do realize a studio does keep putting out titles even if they're not releasing Metal Gear, Castlevania, Contra, & Silent Hill games right?
>He seriously thinks Yu Gi Oh and eBaseball keeps them profitable
Oh you sweet summer child. You have no idea what the frick you are talking about.
Konami make all their money from Pachinkos and their Japan centric sports clubs.
I've never seen someone this desperate to prove a game company isn't a game company.
Yes all those games developed and the new studio they're building are all done under protest given their greater passion for gambling machines.
Once they saw that the Switch version of Momotaro was their best selling game in Japan they were probably cursing themselves for having a release that had the temerity of doing that well.
Their gaming side does worst than the Sports Clubs profits.
Digital Entertainment are their mobile games btw.
Gaming and systems well you know what that is.
Konami IPs just aren’t that convincing.
>Digital Entertainment are their mobile games btw.
>Gaming and systems well you know what that is.
Genuine moron. Seriously consider suicide.
How do you manage to get btfo by a fricking piece of paper?
Genuine moron
>To further strengthen our business operating structure, we carried out a business restructuring to combine the arcade games business segment, which formed part of our Digital Entertainment Business, with another BtoB business, the Pachislot & Pachinko Machines Business, and changed the business domains and name of the latter to the “Amusement Business” in the second quarter ended September 30, 2016.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170513173715/https://www.konami.com/ir/en/ir-data/statements/2017/en0511_6bbw7z.pdf
And here's Konami's earning for this fiscal year
Digital Entertainment is video games, which dominates literally everything.
https://img.konami.com/ir/en/ir-data/statements/2023/en0511_e62a7r.pdf
>Snoy drones have resorted to them wanting to buy Konami just for Yu Gi Oh (Which is what makes the most money in that graph)
>Majority of people play on PC
Ahahahahahahahaha
Man you guys are so fricking moronic.
Sony wouldn't buy Konami, they have too much non vidya businesses
And their most profitable games are on the switch
Pretty sure their most profitable games are on smartphones
them killing themselves
>already own stake in Square
>Square wanting to pander to westoids
>Square acts like they are owned by Sony with the PS5 ''exclusive''' bullshit, ethics department and ESG titles like Babylons Fail and Forsloppen
they are the only nip company I could see Sony getting, only problem is Japan throwing a fit if they are petty enough to remove DQ from Nintendo
Sony can't afford any of those publishers outside of just barely Square Enix, and SE has way more to lose by losing their partnerships with Nintendo. ESPECIALLY with how badly all of their PS exclusive games have been bombing.
Sony is would still ship some ip on Nintendo.
Sony isn't Microsoft, especially when they're absolutely seething with how hard Nintendo is beating their ass cheeks with the 7 year old Switch currently.
>Buy Capcom
CAPCOM is family owned, good luck
Sony could aquire Capcom and Konami for around $13.4B
Extremely smart purchases due to the potential profits on IP.
If they wanted to go nuclear, they could reach into their pockets for a further 3-4B and get UbiSoft. They get memed on Ganker but the AC and Far Cry IPs are extremely popular with normies.
Sony already own a stake in Square Enix which means they're essentially exclusive already.
Sony cannot afford to buy the likes of Capcom lmao. Keep in when you buy a company you buy above their market value and Capcom is only on the rise every year with all their successful games in last few years. SO they would end up having to pay like 15-20 billion for Capcom.
They could've owned Capcom after RE6 to be fair. Capcom stakeholders even went to sell it to them. No one wanted it.
Sony doesn't really buy giant companies. I assume they will go after smaller mid tier game companies. If anything I think they are very moronic for not buying Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and Legacy of Kain of Square Enix back when they were selling it.
Tbf Uncharted is better than the newer Tomb Raider games.
Tomb Raider has a legacy association with PlayStation because of the PS1 so they should have just bought it.
>Sony's going to buy a japanese company guys
Time for Sony to buy another literal who GAAS dev
Sony is going to buy Star Citizen, that will show Todd
SNOYNBlack folk FRICKIN NIGGREFIED
Didn't sony already try to buy square? For what else reason do they have 20% stonks for it?
There's a lot of Microwiener seethe ITT
Why? We're eating good.
>WE WANT KONAMI FOR SILENT HILL, CASTLEVANIA ETC
>None of the people who even worked on these games are there anymore
Lmfao.
You guys are so fricking desperate I swear.
They must want it for momotaro, their current cash cow
Not one person in this thread really mentioned Momotaro as a game they want.
remember, sony fired the guy that directed silent hill 1 themselves
Better to keep Castlevania dead than turn it into some nuGoW walking simulator.
Get it right they’d turn it into a shitty souls like clone.
When most of the appeal is it being a 2D side scroller.
Sony will only really be buying multiplayer focused game companies. Haven't they said they have like 20 GaaS games in dev? They are moving away from focusing on AAA movie games.
>like 20 GaaS games
they're making like 4 or 5
>They are moving away from focusing on AAA movie games
Santa monica, bend studio, sucker punch and naughty dog are all making singleplayer games
thats what I got now when I googled sony GaaS games
The funny thing is I don’t remember who it was, I think it was Bungie, they got bungie to take a look at the Last of Us MP game and Bungie shat all over it.
It’s that bad apparently that Sony are considering dropping it altogether.
>It’s that bad apparently that Sony are considering dropping it altogether.
No, a TLOU live service game is one of the games they could get most profit from. It got reassessed cause they want to milk it for years to come and they probably only saw it lasting a few years
Sony and Microsoft are so shit they are forced to purchase studios.instead of starting up their own and making new IP.
This is why I will always hold old SEGA in a much higher regard. They relied upon their own internally developed software.
>They relied upon their own internally developed software.
Other than Sonic and Puyo Puyo, their best selling series were acquired from other publishers.
puyo puyo was acquired from compile
modern sega's best games are from western studios they bought and atlus though.
None. I don't know why you morons are cheering for corporate consolidation.
>said the xbot
If they buy a nip dev it could only be one of these but
>cant get From because Namco is bigger than the game division
>cant get Konami because same as above
>buying Sega is pointless unless they really want Persona and Yakuza as their ip
>Capcom has no reason to sell and is doing fine
It can only be Square if they pick a jap dev
>>cant get From because Namco is bigger than the game division
From isn't owned by Namco but Kadokawa. Which makes sense for Sony because of their movie anime side, not saying it will happen but more plausable than buying Konami and their pachinkoshit.
true but all of from's ip are owned by bamco
Reminder that Capcom is a family business
The family can stay. That's not what acquisition means.
wrong, that's literally what acquisition means
>t.ranny
i'm confused. do you not know what a family business is?
It's gonna be funny when Gankers hate boner for Sony ends up monkey pawing them. Can't wait for Sony to buy Capcom and make Dragons Dogma 2 PS5 exclusive (and to butcher it into half the game it could be).
You wanted this shit Ganker, and you'll be getting it.
SONY IS BUYING CDPR, THIS TIME FOR VERY REAL!
There is literally nothing wrong with Sony buying Capcom and making Dragons Dogma 2 a PS5 exclusive. Xbox has Call of Duty so it's all good, you can just play that instead you know?
>There is literally nothing wrong with Sony buying Capcom and making Dragons Dogma 2 a PS5 exclusive.
How did snoys manage to convince themselves that Dragon's Dogma was associated with Sony, when it was announced for PS3 and 360 since reveal?
The bigger question is why they are so obsessed with CAPCOM historically as a company they were always multiplat, had quite a few beefs with Sony and happens to be family owned. So unless there's a weasel in the family it ain't happening..
It sold nothing on Xbox is how. Like all Capcom games. It's like 90% Playstation, 10% or less Xbox.
Makes sense for Capcom to be owned by Sony to be honest.
Dragons Dogma sold more on PC than console sales combined.
Wrong actually. You're forgetting that it didn't even come to PC until like 4 years after console versions, and by that point it had sold over 4 million of it's 6 million total sales. And of those additional 2 million sales it got from the re-release on PC and current gen consoles, over 1 million were on consoles.
It's sales figures are probably something like 80% Playstation, 15% PC and 5% Xbox.
>and by that point it had sold over 4 million of it's 6 million total sales.
Can you stop fricking making shit up already?
Here's the Platinum Sales screencap from Capcom's IR page, just before Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen was released on PC.
You can only see Dragon's Dogma here, not even Dark Arisen, as by that point it didn't even reach 1 million copies.
Even at the very best scenario, it sold less than 2.3 million copies by the time PC version came out.
>I was actually sentient in 2012 unlike you. When Dragons Dogma broke 1 million sales something like 820k were on PS3 and the other 180k or so on Xbox.
Maybe you'll start posting your actual sources?
Post breakdown of sales by platform.
>Post breakdown of sales by platform.
I already posted Capcom's sales in general breakdown as it's the only legitimate available source I found.
>It sold nothing on Xbox is how. Like all Capcom games. It's like 90% Playstation, 10% or less Xbox.
>It sold nothing on Xbox is how. Like all Capcom games.
>Like all Capcom games.
And we literate ones can see that "all Capcom games" actually sold pretty well on 360, not even close to those "10% or less".
How about you actually back up any of your claims.
>It sold nothing on Xbox is how. Like all Capcom games. It's like 90% Playstation, 10% or less Xbox.
Why would you say something so easily verifiable?
Are you the very same moron as here
?
I was actually sentient in 2012 unlike you. When Dragons Dogma broke 1 million sales something like 820k were on PS3 and the other 180k or so on Xbox.
Outside of maybe Resident evil, this is common among all Capcom games and easy to confirm due to the leaks. Monster Hunter World for example sold more in Playstation in Japan than it did on Xbox in the entire world.
Dragons Dogma is a PC game.
Call of duty isn't exclusive so I don't know how you're arguing for a game going exclusive by using an example of a multiplat
literally braindead twitter snoy bots
remember when people here tried to force the notion that Steam is anti competition,
despite having no exclusivity deals and even making their own games multiplat
I would love to see how well it does as a PS5 only game.
Dragon's Shitma wouldn't even be in the top 5 for Sony's concerns. RE makes more in a year than any of the Itsuno games does in their lifetime.
It's not about what Sony is concerned with. It's about how funny it would be seeing Ganker seethe over a practice they've been condoning for months now.
Careful what you wish for guys.
Ubisoft is unironically a giant. An acquisition would be great for both parties. Sony would get the IP and studios and UbiSoft would get competent management.
ubisoft would just accelerate sony's death. nobody wants to take on the burden that is ubisoft. it's time to accept that the only path forward for ubisoft is the road to bankruptcy
Nintendo should poach the Italian guy that did the Rabbids games, he's clearly too good for Ubisoft.
Capcom getting bought by Sony is about as likely as Nintendo getting bought by Sony. Literally any other game company is more likely.
Sony is gonna acquire Nintendo. Screenshot this post.
>Sony got BTFO once again
>We're back to the hourly "Sony will buy SE, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Sega, FROMSOFT, EA" thread
>*Sony buys another PC porting studio*
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is NEVER happening, cringe pony.
Even if CEOs operated like 5 yos trying to win a console war argument during recess, Sony can't afford any company on that list.
>maulding microtroony
Xbots already fuming.
Fuming over what?
Your autistic coping over cowadoody?
It's a fact Sony can't afford any of these companies.
That's why they're buying smaller, even brand new studios.
Why Xbots keep saying Sony can not afford these publishers lol. I mean sure Sony is not as rich as Microsoft but that doesn't mean it can not buy anything.
Because people with brains know what a market cap means and how much money Sony has.
Do you know how much Sony has?
>Sony is specifically investing into gaas
Yeah, I'm sure they're going to buy companies that fail in gaas (Capcom, Square) lmao
You guys are gonna shit yourselves when you see Microsofts next purchase. I'll give you a clue, it begins with S and ends with M.
It will become part of the Windows Store and have integrated Game Pass (you will not own any games, and you will be happy).
Buy
CAPCOM
SQUARE ENIX
SEGA
That ensures XBox never wins over the crowd that likes Japanese developers.
.
Source: snoy cope
It’s fricking over for Sony, ps5 a paperweight now
Jim ryan should become a meme like the sega dreamcast ceo featuring himself in a store filled with ps5 in a ps5 game
Those aren't studios those are entire fricking conglomerates
>SONY to AQUIRE more STUDIOS
Is this some kind of cope thread?
Snoy morons don't even know what Square Enix is, all they know is the shitty timed exclusives Sony paid for.
The company with the closest ties to Square Enix, that has published, sold and made the most profit for them, ever, is not Sony or Microsoft.
Sony owns 20% of Square Enix lmao
They sold it years ago, try to keep up snoy.
You forgot to put Microsoft on that list. Ryan didn't want to do it, but with MS buying Activision, what choice does he have?
Honestly, if Sony bought up Konami or SquareEnix, I wouldn't mind. Both of them have IPs that are being entirely wasted, mistreated, or just managed terribly. While I'm not sure Sony would make for a massive improvement overall, considering how much blundering Konami and SquareEnix have been doing over the years, it really couldn't hurt.
Capcom would have the biggest impact though. While Ubisoft pumps out popular games (awful as they may be), Capcom has been putting out massive hits within recent years. Debate over whether the Resident Evil remakes are good, the changes to Monster Hunter's formula, or whether Street Fighter is a mess, but you can't deny the sales.
Stop with this fricking cope, dear jesus, it isn't healthy.
This xbox seethe is fricking amazing
Why would xbots be seething?
They literally just won Activision Blizzard King.
Absolutely MAULDING
Because no one here actually gives a frick about Activision games? But the moment Sony buys Capcom, Ganker will be filled with eternal seethe threads at Dragon's Dogma 2 being made PS5 exclusive.
You just purposefully forgetting what happened on Ganker when Dragon's Dogma 2 got announced? The entire board was so hyped for it there were no other threads.
Did you see that sort of hype with Call of Duty? Or a Warcraft game? Diablo? Overwatch? No. You didn't.
Why would they turn a game from multiplatform series that already had been officially announced for Xbox and PC, into PS5 exclusive?
Because it wont sell anything on Xbox and PC can have it 4 years later.
Man, the snoy cope sure is amazing.
Every single time without fail from the gaming media and Sony drones.
Every
Single
Time
its pure kino. I can't anyone else having this reaction.
>Sony buys Wayforward
>Oh no Switch sisters, Nintendo now has to buy Devolver now to stay relevant
And all those threads was mostly filled with Pc players lmao.
I don’t think this is the own you think it is.
Modern PS players do not play RPGs in the slightest, even FFXVI had to dumb is RPG systems down to be on PS.
Dragons Dogma was announced as a multiplatform game.
The absolute state.
>snoys are literally so mindbroken they think Capcom would allow themselves to be bought
>He doesn't know what a hostile take over is
>Which would you like to see?
None, of course. I don't like Sony and I jumped ship from consoles to PC after the PS4.
But more to the point, I don't think this is how it works. Sony has so far acquired Bungie (all they make is fricking Destiny and still overpaid massively for their acquisition) and a bunch of literally who studios. Each of those publishers is a massive fricking juggernaut. I myself don't understand exactly how this all works, but I don't think buying a company is as simple as having enough money to match their market cap...
>Sony buys Konami
>Castevania becomes a gay God of War clone with the vampires now all gay or trannies
>MGS now becomes a game with a female protag and she’s a trans lesbian black Muslim from war torn Middle East
>Silent Hill just becomes a flick about a gay woman coming out of the closet.
Man I sure hope Sony get them too!
>xbox buys studio
>it becomes shit
Many such cases.
Hate to break it to you, but Castlevania went full gay years ago. Alucard literally got fricked up the ass.
It's always funny to see snoys cope over hypothetical acquisitions and imaginary exclusives.
>Sony get Konami
>Here’s a remake of Silent Hill 1, but all the characters are now black and gay
Always fun to see the xbox fanboys having a meltdown.
They buy Bethesda and Activision but seethe at a rumour of Sony getting Konami.
Because no one here actually cares about or plays Bethesda or Activision games. But Konami, Square or Capcom? They all have games people here give a frick about and play and will seethe if they go exclusive (look at how much Ganker is still seething over FF16).
>Ganker is the only place that matters
There are Call of Duty, Diablo, World of Warcraft and other Activision titles that have regular threads in /vg/.
There are no Konami games in /vg/ other than Master Duel I think.
No one’s seething over Konami lmao
The delusion is so fricking strong
>make a thread crying about hypotheticals
>make up numbers of things sold
>uh sweetie actually you’re seething
That's because xbox fanboys are high on cum.
Japs would kill Capcom if MH went PS only because as much as PS Black folk try to cope and seethe Rise when it was on Switch only did massive numbers and became Capcoms best selling exclusive (pre before PC and other versions)
Japs would also kill Konami for the same thing as the best selling Konami games are Switch titles in Japan.
i don't think square would let sony buy them, most of their games nowadays release as exclusive/console exclusive/1 year exclusive on switch and they sell, remember the last time sony had the market rights of a square enix game? NEO TWEWY literally only had 1 (one) poster in japan
>What is Final Fantasy 16
>A Playstation 5 exclusive
Selective memory you have there anon.
i said MOST, you fricking idiot
>Every studio gets bought and all the IPs get consolidated
>They do frick all with any of the licenses whatsoever
AAA is going to suck moving forward. We're going to get even less than we're getting now.
But this is what Ganker wanted and has been advocating for.
The sooner that it crashes the better
As long as capcom keeps putting their games on PC I'm cool. The rest can die off for all I care.
Sony need to aquire capcom and make them PlayStation EXCLUSIVE.
No PC release. Kino.
>DUDE SONY WILL BUY CAPCOM
>DUDE SONY WILL BUY KONAMI
>DUDE SONY WILL BUY SQUEENIX
everytime with you morons
Microsoft wasted billions on fricking CoD which gamers have been making jokes about for fricking years.
>IGN gave CoD another good review but gave x a y review!
They're the biggest idiots in the industry
No one gives a shit about CoD being the butt of jokes. It always ends up selling millions, even complete pozzed trash like Vanguard. Gamers are the worst cattle consumer out there.
lmao I haven't seen this image in years thanks
You're such a moron.
>wasting a gazillion dollars
>on midtivison and blizzlel of all companies
>years after the CoD golden era ended
xcucks are celebrating THIS??? I guess I could say I feel bad for them, but I really don't. Lmao.
I can smell the seethe from here
FromSoftware being PlayStation exclusive would be KINO as frick.
V would have a meltdown.
Tencent won't sell their shares to Sony and they own more shares in fromsoft than Sony does right now.
Why would they need Tencent? Kadokawa owns like 70% of it.
Tencent are a shareholder who'd have to agree
They wouldn't. They only own roughly 16%. Only Kadokawa has a majority. Unless Tencent's shares have more voting rights which I doubt. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to block Kadokawa from selling their stake to Sony and giving them a majority.
1. That would assume kadokawa board would want to sell their cash cow
2. That would assume Sony would be happy not fully owing one of their internal development studios
3. That would assume Sony would automatically win a bidding war for those shares when tencent as a shareholder have a duty to be informed of such a deal
None of that is relevant to the question "Would Sony need Tencent to agree to gain control of FromSoftware?"
Obv Kadokawa wouldn't actually sell, but that wasn't what was being asked.
Japan would never allow a US company to buy out Japanese companies.
Sony is Japanese though even if Sony's gaming division is based in the US.
Snoy betrayed Japan and lost its Japanese status.
The holding company is still Japanese. Their CEO is literally Japanese.
one branch of sony does not define the conglomerate, morono
Sony is Japanese, moron-kun...
Sony is a Japanese company. Only playstation has Headquarters in America but they are still Japanese.
I own a PS5, but I want to see none of these. The games already come to PS5 and less indepence is almost always worse long term.
Same for ABK and MS.
I hope Sony buys Ubisoft so I can continue to not care about either more efficiently
>Konami
>Ubisoft
Too big
>Capcom
Unlikely to sell due to massive profits currently
>Square Enix
Only one that can realistically be bought
Ubisoft is tiny right now. They're in the negative and their marketcap is like 3B euros. Sony could buy them, though they wouldn't get much benefit out of it.
buying ubisoft is easily the stupidest decision they could make. watch jim ryan do it because that moron doesn't even play games.
>konami
Konami is going through a redemption path as of now. Why in the everlasting frick should they ruin it all, for le exclusivity?
The only exclusive games they made were MGS4 (which wasn't meant to be, but shit architecture meant shit porting) and some castlevania/bomberman titles.
Oh and Silent Hill 1 or PSP games
>Konami is going through a redemption path as of now
More like tricking goyim path
Sounds like a cope