Sony's future and possible studio/publisher acquisitions
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PS5/PC it would be.
Imagine if the Witcher 4, Witcher Remake & Cyberpunk Sequel is exclusive to Playstation
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They should be more honest. Square Enix would never offer FF to MS. Because exclusive FF to Xbox would be dead on arrival lol.
I will say as many times as needed: Japanese games never sold well on Xbox, not now nor to X360 era. Square Enix recent releases proved it again.
Those deals are nowhere near as permanent as what MS are trying to do.
I agree with these takes and feel that will likely be Sony's strategy for gaming expansion; invest in the big 3P publishers and buy a good amount of shares in them, and try to get Sony-connected people into board member positions (IIRC someone from Sony left to join Capcom or it could be the other way around in that case). Companies like Capcom, Take-Two, EA, Epic etc. are very safe to invest in & buy shares in; even in the event they were to decide to sell, Sony still get paid out on their shares and likely at a premium, so they essentially make money on those investments assuming the company isn't in too much debt (or maybe they as a shareholder wouldn't need to account for that debt, I'm not 100% sure how these things work).
They could use the rest for more 3P exclusivity deals (marketing, co-funding, co-development etc.), and some as bonuses for developers just to show that extra appreciation for their hard work (and retain even more talent, of course). Depending on how much is left from whatever would be allocated towards gaming, maybe buy a few 3P developers and if permitting, a publisher. But, I don't think those need to be first steps; buying shares & pumping some capital investments into as many key 3P partners as possible should probably come first, and seeing what PS-connected people can find positions at these 3Ps, preferably as members of the board (but that doesn't have to be the only position they could fit in).
It's also worth keeping in mind that these sort of deals don't have to involve just straight cash; Sony and Take-Two for example could buy shares in one another, in addition to Sony injecting some capital investment into Take-Two. There's a lot of ways to mix and match it all together, so there's great flexibility. And of course, other things like if an opportunity presents itself for a part of Sony, say Sony Pictures, to co-finance, distribute, or produce a film or television adaptation of a 3P partner's gaming IP (such as what they're doing with Capcom via Sony Picture's multi-year deal with Legendary Pictures, who are producing the live-action Street Fighter film).
it wouldn't be for half billion or more. like 1 year exclusivity. PS5 will easily sell FF16 over 10M first year.
it can ship over 1M in first week in Japan alone.
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Damn even Destin thinks it will be Square Enix. Destin saying this mean something, as him being a full Xbox supporter.
He is right this marriage is inevitable.
He is right this marriage is inevitable.
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history repeats itself
Sony Buys Stake in Square - IGN
Sony Corp. announced today that it's purchased a 18.6 % stake in Square Co. Ltd., placing Sony as the second biggest share-holder in the giant software maker. Sony's 14.9 yen ($124.4 million) capital investment is the first of its kind for Square, which always has developed games for the...
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Stake only didn’t work out for Sony in the past. They would at least need a controlling stake 50%>.history repeats itself
Sony Buys Stake in Square - IGN
Sony Corp. announced today that it's purchased a 18.6 % stake in Square Co. Ltd., placing Sony as the second biggest share-holder in the giant software maker. Sony's 14.9 yen ($124.4 million) capital investment is the first of its kind for Square, which always has developed games for the...www.ign.com
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Guys look at this!
PlayStation Business Update:
“Covering every major genre”
JRPG and WRPG are lacking
For this they will need to acquire Square Enix and CDPR
PlayStation Business Update:
“Covering every major genre”
JRPG and WRPG are lacking
For this they will need to acquire Square Enix and CDPR
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Well I think they would buy Capcom only if Activision Blizzard passes. Square Enix is not a question of “if” more of “when”. Fromsoftware I can only see if Kadokawa is willingly to sell.
It's a bad week, but I think the long-term damage will be minimal to nonexistent.
What would Sony do buy Capcom, SE and FromSoftware to then have them working mostly on GaaS?
I think this week has shown whatever hopes we had for sony as far as direction and acquisitions go isnt happening. They are a GAAS company now, which is funny because MS seems to be going the opposite direction with hellblade and starfield in their relatively immediate future. I dont think sony will even make any big moves until they spin off their financial division and who knows when that will happen?
What, if they even happen, big moves will they make? They seem to take square enix for granted from what i can tell. Capcom more less the same. Im trying to think of any midsized publishers or companies with an active GAAS that sony would want to go for and i guess pubg or some korean company weve never heard of before? I would think SE would be a slam dunk what with ff14 but theyd rather waste years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to create the next big thing, which doesnt seem to be working out.
What, if they even happen, big moves will they make? They seem to take square enix for granted from what i can tell. Capcom more less the same. Im trying to think of any midsized publishers or companies with an active GAAS that sony would want to go for and i guess pubg or some korean company weve never heard of before? I would think SE would be a slam dunk what with ff14 but theyd rather waste years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to create the next big thing, which doesnt seem to be working out.
If they buy anything big it's going to be mobile related or even worse some radioactive trash like Epic.
My faith is at an all time low, some years ago I already suspected we were heading into a bad place as far as PlayStation is concerned but this is happening way faster than I anticipated and at the expense of sacrificing what they were good at doing.
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I think if the Acquisition of Activision Blizzard gets approved for MS, then Sony will be forced to respond. It will be likely a publisher with a strong arm for mobile gaming and GaaS experience. I know I have said it a couple of times: the only publisher which fits the criteria are Square Enix.