Yes, you do in fact continue to not know what you're talking about. Maybe it's because you're not a native English speaker, but there's no excuse for it.
They specifically said and I bolded for you, that they received funds as part of the deal. Somehow you think because the deal came as part of a collaboration that no money was exchanged, but they've stated that it was.
What a pile of flatearther bullshit. The document is very clear, Sony didn't pay anything to Kadokawa, didn't receive any money from them.
Kadokawa issued new shares and gave them to Sony and CyberAgent via 3rd party allotment to pay their work helping Kadokawa to bringing Kadokawa IPs to a global market with Sony's help in case of consumer games and anime and CyberAgent's help in case of mobile games.
You don't understand how companies get bought and sold. Kadokawa is a publicly shared company. If Sony makes an offer the board may have a fiduciary responsibility to bring the offer to shareholders. If enough shareholders vote to sell, the company will be sold. It's not like leadership just decides we do or don't want to be bought.
This has nothing to do with what I said.
I said that if Sony wants to buy Tencent's minority will make an offer to Tencent because is who owns it, so only Tencent decides if they sell that stake or not. And in case they are open to sell, they negotiate a price.
This is not the same than if Sony makes an offer to buy the whole Kadokawa, in this case as you say they'd make an offer to the board, who would inform all the shareholders and whoever has voting rights will vote.
You're only saying that because you saw an article where square enix was toying with the idea of selling stake in its studios. That doesn't mean Sony would be interested in owning stake.
True. Well, not exactly. I didn't read an article, I did read it from Square when explained it to the investors. And I assumed that this was made specifically for Sony and Tencent.
There would be no regulatory concerns if sony wanted to buy square enix out right and I see no reason why Sony would want ownership of any of Square's studios.
MS had regulatory issues with the ABK aquisition, when they together own a way smaller market share than Sony+SE.
Sony already is the market leader of console gaming, console game subs and depending on the quarter or year also of the whole gaming. So obviously market regulators are going to be more strict and more likely to stop the acquisition than in the ABK case because Sony has way more market power and could act as gatekeeper and basically could help most JRPG sales for themselves since SE pretty much dominates the sales of that genre.
You said us line tv stuff, which strongly implies the networks.
No, it doesn't. Many of these networks are in cable tv or IPTV specially outside USA. In fact some of them aren't in USA. These can be sold to foreigners.
What can be sold is the big line tv, the old school broadcast one.
None of this is true. They absolutely wouldn't need new offices and would largely work as an independent label distributed through Sony Pictures. All aspects of distribution through Paramount would be shut down. There's no real need for retention bonuses either. This isn't like game development. Sony already has the full capacity for film production here. What Sony is buying is largely the IP and rights to IP NOT people. This is not like the Bungie deal.
Of course what I said it's true, happens in any decent acquisition.
It is obvious that if is very likely they'll have massive layoffs in some places, subsidiaries heavily downsized or merged with other ones will need new offices. Other ones will be shut down or sold. In some cases will need new smaller offices for the downsized ones, in other cases bigger ones for the merged ones.
And always there are retention bonuses to keep the key talent of the acquired company. I even signed that personally one of the times our studio was bought, and was a tiny company, and wasn't in the top level of the company. So obviously in a huge company like Paramount which has several key teams and subsidiaries there will be many key talent that Sony would want to secure at least during a few years.
As an example, if they acquire Comedy Central and Southpark they will want to make sure they keep there the key people running Comedy Central and Southpark to keep rolling it.
Again, this isn't the bungie deal. Sony isn't buying people and talent. They're buying IP and scale.
What a nonsensical take. Of course they are buying talent, they are buying the fucking Paramount Group, which includes a ton of teams. These movies, tv shows, channels, music, services, etc. aren't made and run by magic faires.
These $30B/year don't grow in trees. There are talented and experienced individuals generating them with their successful job. Paramount Global has over 20K employees. I assume some thousands will be fired before and after the acquisition because in case of Sony many of them wouldn't be needed due to .
What you don't understand is that the initial offer of the 26 billion includes the debt. They have about 16 billion in debt, the initial deal would be to pay off that debt, so the actual deal itself is only for about 10 billion.
I won't repeat it, I explained it multiple times.
"budgeted to spend around 10 billion"
Except they weren't spending anything. It was a joint venture with Zee that was going to be worth 10 billion. Sony was going to own 51 percent of the combined company which would be a new company after combining Sony Pictures India with Zee creating Culver Max.
The only thing "budgeted" from Sony would have been a 1.5 billion dollar cash infusion into the company, earning it the majority share.
But you don't know what you're talking about. Sony doesn't have this 10 billion dollars lying around to spend elsewhere, because they were never spending 10 billion. They have 1.5 billion that they were going to inject into the new business that they can spend elsewhere, but they won't do that until the courts deny Zee remediation.
The $10B of the value of the merger aren't the around $10B I mentioned, of which $1.5B were the infusion.
I'm talking about Sony's plan to highly grow in the Indian market that would have been done via the entity resulting from that merger (which in reality would be basically an aquisition) investing there around $10B (can't remember the exact amount). I don't remember the details, involved Indian movies, tv channels, services which I'm not sure if were already on Sony's Indian arm, in Zee's part or if they planned to also aquired them and put it there, produce them one they had the merger done or whatever else.
I didn't took much attention other than knowing that Sony expected to merge with/acquire the Indian giant Zee and grow in the Indian movie/tv/music business with an investment of around $10B because the Indian market makes a lot of money and specially has a lot of growth.
I don't remember, maybe you're right and I'm wrong.
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Not the two Chat G*T accounts disagreeing with each other in this thread
I don't know about you but my bet is on yurinka, I think he will whittle down ookami with 5000 word long posts in this war of attrition
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