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

[Eternal_Wings]

Don't really care much for this acquisition.

The only funny thing to come out of this is the bots and PCMR clowns crying now that everything released by from will be Sony owned.

Elden Ring 2 PlayStation 6 exclusive. Would be a feast of salty tears.

 

[mibu no ookami]

Sony isn't selling itself to buy Kadokawa so this is a BS measurement. Sony had like $44B in hand as cash and spent a lot of it to acquire many companies in different categories not just gaming to avoid inflation effect on static cash. Also that market cap isn't for total Sony as Sony as a whole isn't possible to buy, most likely only 49% or less is scattered between NY stock market and Japanese stock market.

No one said Sony was selling itself ot buy Kadokawa... Why spend your time on english speaking forums if you don't understand the language?

 

[BillyZ]

From a negative perspective though, it'll probably mean PC gamers have to wait a year to play these games

LOL no they won't.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

LOL no they won't.

Your tears are already delicious.

 

[BillyZ]

Your tears are already delicious.

From Software games before acquisition: PlayStation, PC and Xbox day one.
From Software games after acquisition: maybe they'll skip Xbox? Wouldn't even count on that
You're crying because it's another nothingburger like Bungie

 

[anonpuffs]

Sony isn't selling itself to buy Kadokawa so this is a BS measurement. Sony had like $44B in hand as cash and spent a lot of it to acquire many companies in different categories not just gaming to avoid inflation effect on static cash. Also that market cap isn't for total Sony as Sony as a whole isn't possible to buy, most likely only 49% or less is scattered between NY stock market and Japanese stock market.

Sony does have cash on hand and is also preparing to spin off its banking arm to raise funds for more acquisitions/investment

 

[mibu no ookami]

From Software games before acquisition: PlayStation, PC and Xbox day one.
From Software games after acquisition: maybe they'll skip Xbox? Wouldn't even count on that
You're crying because it's another nothingburger like Bungie

Yeah, because Insomniac is out here making Xbox, PC, Magic Leap, and mobile games still.

Again, zero chance they make Xbox games going forward (if this deal closes) and my guess is that PC games would be taken over by Nixxes just like any other PlayStation developer.

 

[BillyZ]

Yeah, because Insomniac is out here making Xbox, PC, Magic Leap, and mobile games still.

Again, zero chance they make Xbox games going forward (if this deal closes) and my guess is that PC games would be taken over by Nixxes just like any other PlayStation developer.

I said Xbox maybe. And yes Insomniac IS making PC games starting with Spider-Man 3 DAY AND DATE on PC.

 

[anonpuffs]

Yeah, because Insomniac is out here making Xbox, PC, Magic Leap, and mobile games still.

Again, zero chance they make Xbox games going forward (if this deal closes) and my guess is that PC games would be taken over by Nixxes just like any other PlayStation developer.

IDK, they may leave From alone. There's a significant technical skill gap that has to be bridged and they'd have to either retrain all the software engineering staff or co-dev with an internal studio like bluepoint.

 

[mibu no ookami]

I said Xbox maybe. And yes Insomniac IS making PC games starting with Spider-Man 3 DAY AND DATE on PC.

Nixxes handles the porting of Insomniac's games to PC, not Insomniac and guess what not a single Insomniac game under Sony has launched on PC on day 1.

Sony is going to want Elden Ring 2, Bloodborne Remastered, Bloodborne 2, and Demon's Souls on PS5 first and then they'll port them to PC.

FromSoftware + Bluepoint + Nixxes = A cash factory.

 

[BillyZ]

Nixxes handles the porting of Insomniac's games to PC, not Insomniac and guess what not a single Insomniac game under Sony has launched on PC on day 1.

Sony is going to want Elden Ring 2, Bloodborne Remastered, Bloodborne 2, and Demon's Souls on PS5 first and then they'll port them to PC.

FromSoftware + Bluepoint + Nixxes = A cash factory.

Never gonna happen buddy!
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[saltyashell]

Cool - I hope it happens.

 

[mibu no ookami]

IDK, they may leave From alone. There's a significant technical skill gap that has to be bridged and they'd have to either retrain all the software engineering staff or co-dev with an internal studio like bluepoint.

I've already brought up Bluepoint. Miyazaki already praised them. It's clear Bluepoint has the technical prowess to speed up FromSoftware development and get their games to be more technically proficient.

Farming out the work to Bluepoint isn't a big ask. They made Demon's Souls without having a direct relationship with From and they did it without most of the staff knowing Japanese. You bring in some proficient Japanese-English speaking devs and you can make this work pretty easily.

This will get so much use out of Bluepoint and Nixxes, making them absolutely brilliant buys (they already were).

 

[Eternal_Wings]

From Software games before acquisition: PlayStation, PC and Xbox day one.
From Software games after acquisition: maybe they'll skip Xbox? Wouldn't even count on that
You're crying because it's another nothingburger like Bungie

I never said this potential acquisition is exciting for me. But it's really delusional to say this acquisition is worse as Bungie. If Sony had bought them instead of Bungie first, then people would have accepted it more. With Kadokawa coming aside the Manga/Anime business several gaming studios:

Accquire (Tenchu, Octopath Traveler II, Mario & Luigi Brothership), Spike ChunSoft (Danganronpa). This is on paper definitely more interesting than Bungie. Keep shedding those tears.

 

[Gediminas]

No one said Sony was selling itself ot buy Kadokawa... Why spend your time on english speaking forums if you don't understand the language?

It isn't his fault that everything went over your head.

Why spend time on english speaking forum if you don't understand the language?

 

[BillyZ]

Accquire (Tenchu, Octopath Traveler II, Mario & Luigi Brothership), Spike ChunSoft (Danganronpa). This is on paper definitely more interesting than Bungie. Keep shedding those tears.

Those are going to Sony Music 100% and might make more Switch exclusives like Last Defense Academy

 

[Eternal_Wings]

Those are going to Sony Music 100% and might make more Switch exclusives like Last Defense Academy

You're delusional. Fromsoftware and Accquire will definitely be reallocated under PlayStation Japan. Maybe Spike ChunSoft stays but the others making no sense.

 

[BillyZ]

You're delusional. Fromsoftware and Accquire will definitely be reallocated under PlayStation Japan. Maybe Spike ChunSoft stays but the others making no sense.

You're setting up yourself for disappointment and the meltdown will be glorious when all details on the acquisition will be clear. Your days are numbered!

 

[mibu no ookami]

I never said this potential acquisition is exciting for me. But it's really delusional to say this acquisition is worse as Bungie. If Sony had bought them instead of Bungie first, then people would have accepted it more. With Kadokawa coming aside the Manga/Anime business several gaming studios:

Accquire (Tenchu, Octopath Traveler II, Mario & Luigi Brothership), Spike ChunSoft (Danganronpa). This is on paper definitely more interesting than Bungie. Keep shedding those tears.

They're both massive purchases with different objectives, but it guarantees for SIE substantial and consistent revenue on a near annual basis with pretty low operating costs.

Consider the following games

Demon's Souls PC
Demon's Souls 2 (AKA Dark Souls 4) PS5/PC
Bloodborne 2 PS5/PC
Elden Ring 2 PS5/PC
Bloodborne Remastered PS5/PC

These 5 games over the course of the next 6-7 years... you're looking at at least 50 million units sold and upwards of 3 billion dollars in revenue. Making this deal is an absolute no brainer.

Breakdown of potential sales figures

Demon's Souls PC - 2 million units
Demon's Souls 2 (AKA Dark Souls 4) - 8 million units
Bloodborne 2 - 10 million units
Elden Ring 2 - 25 million units
Bloodborne Remastered - 5 million units

Sony would have recovered their investment within 10 years and added major publishing power for anime/manga.

 

[mibu no ookami]

You're delusional. Fromsoftware and Accquire will definitely be reallocated under PlayStation Japan. Maybe Spike ChunSoft stays but the others making no sense.

It's pure Hopium.

This day was always coming and I told you it was and that you'd be sad it wasn't Square Enix.