(Updated) Sony Pictures reportedly in talks to buy Paramount
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If it was always bound to happen, then why is a decline a failure in leadership?
why is it that other divisions at Sony get money to make multi billion dollar acquisitions, but their biggest division, PlayStation, has to rely on smaller acquisitions? with 10B dollars they can buy Square Enix, Kadokawa (FromSoftware) and KoeiTecmo combined, this is ridiculous, SONY NEEDS MORE STUDIOS AND IPS, 2023 we only had one AAA game (Spiderman 2) and 2024 we have nothing from first party
Paramount will bring us what? Spongebob? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? these are IPs mainly for children, it won't appeal to the vast majority of PlayStation users, WB would suit us way better
not for gaming, won't serve us for nothing, unless you want to play Spongebob games on your PlayStation
To acquire somebody, they need to want to sell.
SE/Kadokawa/KT and WB are not in the market to sell, it's simple as that.
WB is already significantly more expensive than Paramount to acquire and Sony is already partnering up to bid for Paramount. WB would be even more difficult to acquire/merge considering anti-trust regulations.
As a matter fact, Paramount is still part of the Big Five(Disney/WB/Universal/Sony/Paramount) and it's not even a guarantee that regulators let that through anyway.
If you think video game publishing consolidation has been bad, they've got nothing on US Movie/TV giants.
That shit has long been ridiculous.
i know they need to want to sell, but i'm just saying that it may be too much money for something that will not benefit their biggest division, PlayStation, Sony needs more game studios, we're having a dry 2023/2024 because they simply don't have enough studios to sustain the platform, games are taking 5 years to make, they just laid off 900 people this is not the time to make a 10 billion dollar acquisition
PlayStation as we knew it is dead. Just move on from them
Might as well just merge with Disney at this point.
Paramount sucks, why not just wait and pick up their IPs when it gets liquidated in an eventual bankruptcy?
Modern Sony leadership is seriously out of touch with reality, Movies are a dying buisness while gaming is on the up.
Playstation is Sony's biggest money maker yet it is constantly treated like the redheaded stepchild
i've completely lost faith in the future of the PlayStation brand...
we'll play Dora and Spongebob games on PlayStation, yay, can't wait
When will you people realise there's more to Sony than PlayStation? Sony might actually want to give a shit about both. But nooooo, do what eternal wants.
Finally. Two people on this website with common sense.
Looking at Paramount now after all of the conversations buying Paramount wouldn’t be bad thoe I’d still say there are better companies with stronger & more flexible ip then the ones Paramount have.
Sonic movies make 500+ million in revenue the 3rd Sonic movie can do maybe 500-700 million box life time if the movie is good. Transformer & TMNT has had a somewhat resurgence with there animation making decent revenue the only problem with Paramount is there ip has no to little establishment in gaming thoe a quality narrative driven Transformer game could do gangbuster a quality AAA transformer could sell 20+ million I wouldn’t be surprised it could be very similar to armor core just thoughts & a TMNT game could do 5 to 10 million if quality but other then those 2 ip everything else is eh SpongeBob games multiplat flops & im not sure kids are watching SpongeBob.
Paramount value will come whether Sony can create great movie’s & animation getting rid of Paramount+ & licensing out ip to Max, Netflix, Amazon etc & translating Paramount ip to games.
Does paramount has parks? If they do I can see Sony wanting an easy way to get into parks by buying the land then injecting PS ip thoe you can argue you can do that by just partnering w them. What are the benefits for Sony if there going to spend 10 billion?
A good TMNT game will bring in money. Tie it in with a movie and that's easy cash.
Syndication on star trek and Southpark must be worth a few quid. Especially if Sony launches a games, movies, TV shows all in one paclage
Syndication on star trek and Southpark must be worth a few quid. Especially if Sony launches a games, movies, TV shows all in one paclage
Gta V alone made more money than the Titanic and Avatar combined.
Gaming is a lot more profitable
This has been my thought ever since Jim Ryan retired.
