SIE is looking for business partnerships with Korean companies, collaboration / investment options with Pearl Abyss, Neowiz, Com2uS, and NCSOFT etc
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What always strikes me is how well American public companies are valued compared to non-American companies. This often makes acquisitions more difficult for non-US companies and easier for US companies. Sony won't buy a T2, but maybe only selected IPs+ studios like GTA? But in any case, Sony will take appropriate steps.
it’s not really a distraction but strategic positioning. All the major players are expanding and Sony needs to strengthen its position everywhere. Tencent, netease, Microsoft the Saudis are getting aggressive in Japan and tencent and eyeing south Korea. Microsoft has its eye on Japan also and both Sony and Microsoft are trying to avoid getting directly involved in China so South Korea is an obvious target. Also unlike a lot of Japanese games Korean games push visuals and graphics. The technical talent is excellent.
It also makes sense for Sony because it’s interested in mmos and see them as a good source of reoccurring revenue. Korea has some of the longest running and popularly mmos in the world. They make good money and they could drive mau growth. Black desert has generated like $2 billion and a black desert 2 is planned I think. Ncsoft has several mmos in the works and is bring blade and soul to console and project lll looks pretty good and would be a a good get as a console exclusive.
If they bought something like pearl abyss or heavily invested in it that would be a steal. They could get pearl abyss for a lot less than they paid for bungie. And pearl abyss owns ccp which has struggle to make other games to expand its presence on pc. They mad dust 514 which was a ps3 exclusive and eve Valkyrie which was a ps4 console exclusive. The Eve university offers a lot of possibilities. A new dust or a new star citizen type mmo would be epic.
