Reuters: Sony in talks to buy Kadokawa [UP] The company wants Sony to buy all of its assets

Gediminas

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This is a huge of a company to acquire, and me personally, I really hope it doesn't happen.


Knowing by how Microsoft goes with their acquisitions, it'd be an absolute disaster. Kadokawa owns so much more than just Spike and FromSoft. They own bookwalker, multiple manga/anime distribution companies. If this happens, I do truly believe creative output from the individuals who work at these companies will be cut short in order for more "data-driven, by-the-books" game design to continue. As well as priotizing Sony's IPs over Kadokawa's original works.
And as far as I can tell from all these Doom n Gloom Youtube videos posts on "why gaming sucks now," I believe it is a worse-case scenario for the JP entertainment industry if this acquisition were to happen.
yes yes m$ = Sony 🤡
 

Gods&Monsters

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This has the potential to put massive chunks of Japanese media under one roof.
Huge chunks of what? Somebody posted a chart for manga industry and Kado was like 1%. In anime, Bandai is way bigger, nobody thinks of Kadokawa when they think anime.
 

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This person explained it well.


You just posted a tweet from a person with 11 followers? Are you that desperate?

That news is 17 hours old.

It was before Kadokawa confirmed Sony’s intention to acquire letter.

Keep clutching at straws.
 

Gediminas

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You just posted a tweet from a person with 11 followers? Are you that desperate?

That news is 17 hours old.

It was before Kadokawa confirmed Sony’s intention to acquire letter.

Keep clutching at straws.
so follower number informs you if information is true or false, opinion is right or wrong!?

how old are you? 5? fucking hell.

all questions just rhetoricals, we know the answer.
 

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There must be a mole inside Sony purposefully sabotaging these deals. Also think: why does an American outlet know about a deeply Japanese acquisition?
It wouldn't surprise me if it's someone of the PlayStation California employees doing so. Probably purple hair color...The same happened with Square Enix in 2022, when the rumours surfaced and then you know the end of the line.... Let's hope this isn't a deal breaker.
 
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so follower number informs you if information is true or false, opinion is right or wrong!?

how old are you? 5? fucking hell.

all questions just rhetoricals, we know the answer.
Yeah. The guy made a good point about insider trading. It doesn’t matter how many followers he had, it’s a good point. There’s a reason why deals rarely leak. Because it usually kills deals. We just found out this was before Kadokawa made their statement. So that’s why he deleted the tweet. Lol Still a good point though.
 
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Petekilla

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There must be a mole inside Sony purposefully sabotaging these deals. Also think: why does an American outlet know about a deeply Japanese acquisition?
It wouldn't surprise me if it's someone of the PlayStation California employees doing so. Probably purple hair color...The same happened with Square Enix in 2022, when the rumours surfaced and then you know the end of the line.... Let's hope this isn't a deal breaker.
Just found out this was before Kadokawa made their statement this mourning.
 

Muddasar

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so follower number informs you if information is true or false, opinion is right or wrong!?

how old are you? 5? fucking hell.

all questions just rhetoricals, we know the answer.

Why did he delete it?

It was some random Tweet on news before Kadokawa announced the acquisition intent letter.

I mean come on.
 

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There must be a mole inside Sony purposefully sabotaging these deals. Also think: why does an American outlet know about a deeply Japanese acquisition?
It wouldn't surprise me if it's someone of the PlayStation California employees doing so. Probably purple hair color...The same happened with Square Enix in 2022, when the rumours surfaced and then you know the end of the line.... Let's hope this isn't a deal breaker.

Don’t think so. I’m assuming this is Japanese side leaking with the times news has come out so far
 

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It wouldn't surprise me if it's someone of the PlayStation California employees doing so. Probably purple hair color...
some of you seriously need to take a break from culture wars. this is as looney as it gets, it's gotten to the point where you blame every little issue you have on those who think differently than you.
 
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Well Kadokawa doesnt have much American or western interests so FCC and EU is out of picture, All Sony needs to do is bribe 2-3 high profile diet members and push yen in apple boxes to them when they take them out to the omakase and teppanyaki dinners :ROFLMAO:

I still think Sony needs to pay a premium and anything above 12-14 billion is out of their reach
 

Gediminas

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Yeah. The guy made a good point about insider trading. It doesn’t matter how many followers he had, it’s a good point. There’s a reason why deals rarely leak. Because it usually kills deals. We just found out this was before Kadokawa made their statement. So that’s why he deleted the tweet. Lol Still a good point though.
I was looking at the stock price, i thought it the same, it could have been inside trading or somebody created this situation. People who invested before, sells now, rake huge profits.