If Sony plans on buying and making content exclusive to it's platform and PC, wonder how much the platform sales break downs of these suspected acquisitions matters? For example if Capcom has a relatively low/high revenue from the Nintendo and X-box platforms does that make it a better/worse target? Or are we assuming Sony goes the Bungie route where games stay multiplat and it doesn't matter.
I know Microsoft can take the initial hit, but how much does/did a company like Bethesda initially lose in value due to no longer selling on PlayStation when such a large part of their sales were on that platform?
What Sony plans is to continue making exclusive content for their console. And to port part of it to PC some time later, plus make movies and some mobile game about them.
Then they bought Bungie, and pretty likely will buy some multiplatform publisher more, that will continue being full multiplatform, even releasing their games on rival consoles day one. Pretty likely Sony will only ask them to don't go console exclusive with their rivals, to put their games on Sony's game subscription and not the rival ones, and give Sony exclusivity for markeing, console bundles or betas. And if some day they want to make a console exclusive, to make it with PS.
Sony is interested to make money from gamers from other consoles and PC day one but not using the PS Studios games (in PC not day one, in rival consoles never). With publishers they also have more big IPs, many popular names to fill their game sub with old classics and many excititng games to fill their roadmap now that AAA game developments will become longer, because every generattion AAA game developments get longer. And even if they are acquiring game developmentt studios and support studios, and are growing their existing teams, in the long term they'll need more.
I assume they want to continue growing their 1st party production and numbers to be in a position like Nintendo, where they wouldn't depend on 3rd party games but to rely only on 1st party games and keep 3rd party as something secondary to them.
Companies lke Bethesda or Activision Blizzard make most of their money on PS, and this is one of the reasons of why MS bought them and why MS said they will continue releasing games on PS. And why Sony said Bungie will continue releasing their future games on rival consoles and PC day one. Their value and revenue would sink if they full go full exclusive. As MS did with Minecraft, these companies get bought to help them grow and to get their profit, not to shrink them.
Sony wants to make money from the Xbox, Switch and mobile players but won't give them Uncharted, they would buy someone like Capcom or Bungie for that.
FROM acquisition please, im thirst for salty tears.
I can see the threads claiming it isn't consumer friendly.
It's always funny to read articles acting as if GP was a pioneer of game subs when PS+ got games before than MS and PS Now built a game sub with hundreds of games and cloud gaming in PS Now before GP existed, and when Sony has twice the subscribers in game subs than MS.
And well, Sony is a Japanese company so they wouldn't have language or cultural barriers, and would be interested in many of the non-gaming business some of these companies have like movies, anime, tv shows, tv channels, music, real estate and who knows if would also fit or adapt well toys and figurines, manga/book/magazine/game guides publishing or amusement centers to help push their IPs. They could even adapt Konami's gyms because they could expand to do some machines for gyms or stuff like that since they do all kind of machines, now even cars.
But yes, there's stuff that is hard to fit like the gyms or pachinko, specially for MS.
Seriously, I wish there was a chance for Sony to acquire Ready At Dawn, I always had the impression that they were Naughty Dog or Santa Monica's little sibling... (you know because of their psp games and the Order that was inspired by Uncharted 2).
A shame they're with Facebook now
100% agree. They did top tier PSP stuff and The Order even having flaws it was top tier in many areas even if they were a relatively small team for AAA games. I think with another chance in the AAA area after The Order they would have fixed these flaws and would have become a top tier team. But sadly FB bought them.
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