He’s gonna keep crying until he gets his Naughty Dog GaaS. Ironic.
Sony's future and possible studio/publisher acquisitions
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He’s gonna keep crying until he gets his Naughty Dog GaaS. Ironic.
Your entire argument is that a big corporation can do no wrong, yet we know from history that is far from the truth. The top guys that oversaw the late PS3 and early PS4 days are long gone.
You also assume that if PlayStation GaaS/PC/mobile strategy somehow work I'll be proven wrong. If it works it is going to be even worse for traditional games. Pretty much all companies that find GaaS success become all about it.
What did you expect? A trashy console like the Series to find success? Most if not all the success the PS5 had come from decisions that go back further than 2019.
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I don’t get why Sony spends so much on this Indian media company. $10B holy shit…
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But this should disprove fanboys arguments that Sony can’t afford more than Bungie.
India's Zee and Sony inch closer to becoming a $10 billion behemoth
The two media companies started the process to merge back in 2021
qz.com
But this should disprove fanboys arguments that Sony can’t afford more than Bungie.
At least now Sony has all the Zee IPs, whatever they are.I don’t get why Sony spends so much on this Indian media company. $10B holy shit…
India's Zee and Sony inch closer to becoming a $10 billion behemoth
The two media companies started the process to merge back in 2021
But this should disprove fanboys arguments that Sony can’t afford more than Bungie.
Sony merging with an insolvent India TV channel is your idea of them flexing?
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This is their biggest deal to date. Point is Sony can afford gaming publishers. Also it could be Sony wanted to complete this acquisition first. Could mean they have more lined up and definitely something did hold them up. They announced this merger with Zee before Microsoft has made their bid to buy Activision Blizzard…At least now Sony has all the Zee IPs, whatever they are.
Sony merging with an insolvent India TV channel is your idea of them flexing?
Sony spent 1.5 billion for 51 percent share of the company that’s worth 10 billion, is my understanding.I don’t get why Sony spends so much on this Indian media company. $10B holy shit…
India's Zee and Sony inch closer to becoming a $10 billion behemoth
The two media companies started the process to merge back in 2021
But this should disprove fanboys arguments that Sony can’t afford more than Bungie.
I don’t get why Sony spends so much on this Indian media company. $10B holy shit…
India's Zee and Sony inch closer to becoming a $10 billion behemoth
The two media companies started the process to merge back in 2021
But this should disprove fanboys arguments that Sony can’t afford more than Bungie.
Indian media company?
Sony leadership is awful and PlayStation gets neglected every time, it's ridiculous
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Guess we now know why Playstation can't access the money vault though it's them finding majority of the Acquisitions for the company.
All of the Sony division are profitable and healthy. If PS doesn't want to acquire game studios then it is because of Jim or Herman themselves doesn't want to.
It only proves sony view gaming as a toys and sie as a stepchild. No matter how its doing. They were going to spend 30,40 billion on Fox assets 6 years ago.I don’t get why Sony spends so much on this Indian media company. $10B holy shit…
India's Zee and Sony inch closer to becoming a $10 billion behemoth
The two media companies started the process to merge back in 2021
But this should disprove fanboys arguments that Sony can’t afford more than Bungie.
Instead of buying ips, some publishers for themself in gaming.
As we thought they re run by bunch of morons.
I personally never said they couldn't afford anything, my point is that they should go for it and not let the opportunity to get rid of Xbox pass them.
Xbox is in the ropes, burning trough money trying to get something going. But the problem is that they have a lot of money and are willing to spend it while Sony so far pretty much only showed they are willing to spend big on GaaS (and not even for the purposes of differentiating PS from other platforms).
Or the guys above them don't see the value in investing in consoles and rather try to leverage their dominance in console to get them into GaaS/PC/Cloud/Mobile markets that these executive types tend to care a lot more about.
Jimbo and Herman are likely to have a vision aligned with the guys above them, so it is still their fault anyway. They should be leveraging MS aggressiveness to get more resources going PlayStation's way.
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Sony agreed with them this acquisition back in 2021, not now. They are still with regulator approval paperwork.I don’t get why Sony spends so much on this Indian media company. $10B holy shit…
India's Zee and Sony inch closer to becoming a $10 billion behemoth
The two media companies started the process to merge back in 2021
But this should disprove fanboys arguments that Sony can’t afford more than Bungie.
Zee is an Indian giant with a huge amount of the most popular Indian cinema + tv/streaming + music content of the last 3 decades. Before the acquisition, in VOD streaming Sony was a residual player there, now will be top 2 only after Disney (who owns the cricket, the top sport there).
India is now the country with the biggest population in the world (almost the same than China) and has a bigger growth:
India's economy is becoming one of the biggest ones in the world:
Because it's the fastest growing one in the world:
India loves their own cinema and music, so becoming top tier in this area plus also in tv+streaming is way more important in the long term than Bungie. To control a good chunk of their tv and streaming plus movies and tv shows also means a huge opportunity for advertising there non-Indian Sony content like movies or games.
This, combined with having bigger revenue and assets, is the reason of why this company was valued more than 4 times higher than Bungie.
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Sony agreed with them this acquisition back in 2021, not now. They are still with regulator approval paperwork.
Zee is an Indian giant with a huge amount of the most popular Indian cinema + tv/streaming + music content of the last 3 decades. Before the acquisition, in VOD streaming Sony was a residual player there, now will be top 2 only after Disney (who owns the cricket, the top sport there).
India is now the country with the biggest population in the world (almost the same than China) and has a bigger growth:
India's economy is becoming one of the biggest ones in the world:
Because it's the fastest growing one in the world:
India loves their own cinema and music, so becoming top tier in this area plus also in tv+streaming is way more important in the long term than Bungie. To control a good chunk of their tv and streaming plus movies and tv shows also means a huge opportunity for advertising there non-Indian Sony content like movies or games.
This, combined with having bigger revenue and assets, is the reason of why this company was valued more than 4 times higher than Bungie.
And gamers don't give two shits.
To me, and to many, a Capcom, Square-Enix, Bandai-Namco, even Arc System Works, Ember Lab, Level 5 etc. means a metric ton more than Zee or virtually any of these non-gaming companies when it coms to discussing M&A strategies.
Bringing up data only goes so far; it may fit Sony's bottom line to acquire something like Zee but we're enthusiast gamers talking video games. Zee doesn't mean anything to us, or at least it doesn't to me.
I can see ArcSys, their model is perfect for GaaS fighting game, heavily suited for Evo and Esports tournament.
Bandai Namco. Their model, doesn't suit Sony, like at all.
Capcom, also a no.
Square, already been dissected, Sony probably would want to heavily invest or acquiring them.
A few notable candidate: Cygames, MiHoYo.
Bandi Namco model doesn't work for Sony that I could see. But Capcom fits Sony perfectly and ArcSys as you said.
Cygames is owned by CyberAgent so it would be hard to convince CyberAgent to sell them.
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MiHoYo would be a great pick-up for Sony; maybe their investments in the China Hero Project is a means of showing commitment to help grow China's game dev scene, and earn favor to eventually make a play for an entity like MiHoYo a few years from now. Between MiHoYo, Square-Enix, and Bungie, Sony would be well-served with GaaS content and then they have a few other games like MLB and Gran Turismo adding on top of that.
It would allow the other studios to focus more on traditional gaming experiences, and maybe even to expand out to doing AA projects requiring less devs, money and time so each studio can put out a good number of AA traditional games between the bigger AAA traditional games. If not a play for MiHoYo, then as you said, maybe Cygames.
Yes, Sony didn't make this acquisition for your personal tastes, they made it instead for Sony's global insterest as corporation particularly in movies, cinema, tv/streaming and music divisions.
But strategically in gaming too, because it's one of the fastest growing countries in game revenue since its revenue doubled in size compared to 5 years ago and is expected to continue to grow fast:
This is also the reason of why Sony had initiatives in gaming like India Hero Project.
Bandai Namco and Capcom are way more successful in fighting game GaaS than ArcSys, even if I think ArcSys, Bandai Namco, Cacpom, Square, CyGames or MiHoyo would be good acquisitions.
But we know Sony won't make new acquisitions in the short term.
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