Sony buy Kadokawa and make them exclusive - Why it needs to happen!

[Kokoloko]

Any further acquisition attempts by MS are likely to meet the same fate as the Activision deal, as the CMA has laid it all out in black and white that Microsoft, by their own admission, wants to create a monopoly in streaming video games.

Man I hope so. I want them out

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Kadokawa also means they get access to tons of Anime, Sony already owns Animelab,Crunchyroll and Funimation. All they would need after that is Square to get even more anime

The anime could complicate such an acquisition because Sony already own both Crunchyroll and Funimation. An argument could be made, especially depending on the market share Crunchyroll & Funimation have in the anime streaming segment, that Sony owning Kadokawa's anime IP & pipeline combined with their ownership of streaming services could give them too much power in that area, similar to the argument we're seeing for Microsoft owning ABK IP like COD alongside owning sub services like Game Pass (AND cloud infrastructure like Azure on top of that).

Of course that depends on the size of some of Kadokawa's anime IP, and I don't think there's really a single anime with the amount of revenue power (through anime and associated merchandise based on them) of One Piece, Dragonball, and Pokemon. Even stuff like Yugioh is kind of far removed from those, and it's a pretty well-known IP. I don't think Kadokawa have any anime IP of that size so that argument against Sony may not actually work, which would potentially allow Sony to get them without divestiture involvement.

In a totally hypothetical scenario, of course.

 

[AshHunter216]

The anime could complicate such an acquisition because Sony already own both Crunchyroll and Funimation. An argument could be made, especially depending on the market share Crunchyroll & Funimation have in the anime streaming segment, that Sony owning Kadokawa's anime IP & pipeline combined with their ownership of streaming services could give them too much power in that area, similar to the argument we're seeing for Microsoft owning ABK IP like COD alongside owning sub services like Game Pass (AND cloud infrastructure like Azure on top of that).

Of course that depends on the size of some of Kadokawa's anime IP, and I don't think there's really a single anime with the amount of revenue power (through anime and associated merchandise based on them) of One Piece, Dragonball, and Pokemon. Even stuff like Yugioh is kind of far removed from those, and it's a pretty well-known IP. I don't think Kadokawa have any anime IP of that size so that argument against Sony may not actually work, which would potentially allow Sony to get them without divestiture involvement.

In a totally hypothetical scenario, of course.

Theoretically, Sony would have to divest a lot of anime-related businesses, something they might be more open to doing than Microsoft is with regards to ABK.

 

[Systemshock2023]

I don't see From Software keen on missing among others, the Switch 2 audience 2024 onwards. If that thing is at portable PS4 with newer tech (DLSS), they can port their whole 8th gen back catalog and even make 9th gen ports. If Doom Eternal and Witcher 3 ran on the Switch, anything is possible.

Besides...Bloodborne didn't exactly set the world on fire sales wise on PS4. Neither Demons souls on PS5

 

[KiryuRealty]

I don't see From Software keen on missing among others, the Switch 2 audience 2024 onwards. If that thing is at portable PS4 with newer tech (DLSS), they can port their whole 8th gen back catalog and even make 9th gen ports. If Doom Eternal and Witcher 3 ran on the Switch, anything is possible.

Besides...Bloodborne didn't exactly set the world on fire sales wise on PS4. Neither Demons souls on PS5

From had nothing to do with the Switch ports of their games.

In fact, From only works on the PlayStation builds of their games, every other build is done by a porting team, so odds are they don’t give a fuck about Switch 2.