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

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This is what someone on Era said. LMAO

“I have no confidence in Sony managing FROM. They were blind to the potential of Demon's Souls and basically gave away the Souls franchise due to their ineptitude and inability to identify a unique product of stellar quality, while their handling of Bloodborne has been farcical. The decision to wash their hands of Demon's Souls and the resultant revenue lost from future Souls titles also probably played a significant role in sealing Japan Studio's fate”.

“Sony's mismanagement this gen of their Western studios, their main focus, also does nothing to engender confidence”.
Demon Souls was a flop in Japan that had to be saved by American audiences. Even Bloodborne was more of a niche product with an underground cult following that built up over time. No one expected the popularity of Elden Ring including these people who pretend to be Nostradamus on video game forums.
 
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Get ready for a whole lot of hypocrisy. This is a great get for Sony, and not the same type of mess as a publisher acquisition.
 
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Netflix and Hulu (owned by Disney) have both been investing a lot on bringing Anime to their services so Sony probably saw that and they don’t want to lose ground.

This is a fact.

First Crunchyroll doesn't operate in Japan, so we're squarely focused on the US and in the US, there is a ton of competition from Amazon, Netflix, and Disney.

What do these companies have in common? Much bigger than Sony.
 

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This stupid clown.


Sounds like some people on this forum.
“Sony shouldnt buy another studio, look at Concord.” lol

Never give playstation control over good studios they will find a way to concord it. There is a reason the Fate IP is popular and brings in boatload of cash - no playstation involved
 
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This stupid clown.

I give him that he is only of the few that were against Activision Blizzard deal for the same reason.
So he is stay true to what he believes.

Others Xbots are trashing that possibility of Sony + Kadokawa while Microsoft + Activison Blizzard was the best thing ever.
 
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"Sony declined to comment. Kadokawa said it cannot comment." means THIS IS HAPPENING.

If not they'd say it's bullshit. It would be a great announcement for the PS 30th anniversary since both Kadokawa in their side and FromSoft in their side have both dozens of PS exclusives since back the PS1 times, for most PS devices.

Beyond gaming, this would also help Sony in the anime/manga IPs and production side.
 

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While im concerned about Sony getting more of the anime space and the rest, it is very funny to see xbox people complain about a monopoly and how regulators should stop it after Zenimax and ABK purchases.
They can try, American and European regulators don’t have much of a say in Japan.
 
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"Sony declined to comment. Kadokawa said it cannot comment." means THIS IS HAPPENING.

If not they'd say it's bullshit. It would be a great announcement for the PS 30th anniversary since both Kadokawa in their side and FromSoft in their side have both dozens of PS exclusives since back the PS1 times, for most PS devices.

Beyond gaming, this would also help Sony in the anime/manga IPs and production side.
I think it means they are in talk.
And the news leaked way before they expected.

BTW the leak can be even illegal.