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Wandering Leopard
Member
Would be interesting to see what From would do with Sony's decima engine.
There must a lot of Japanese documentation thanks to Kojima productions.
There must a lot of Japanese documentation thanks to Kojima productions.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Kadokawa management:
KàIRóS
Member
People saying Sony would suddenly turn this company woke need a serious IQ test.
You guys seriously believe Sony doesn't know how incredibly dumb that would be?
Do you really think they haven't analyzed the market to know that turning a company that deals primarily with Anime and Manga into some Californian woke friendly business would be the stupidest idea ever?
Did they not just took the biggest L ever in gaming due to Wokeness this year with Concord and immediately axed it and sent it right into the shitter along with the entire dev team?
I know some of you are joking but come on people, they aren't THAT incompetent.
You guys seriously believe Sony doesn't know how incredibly dumb that would be?
Do you really think they haven't analyzed the market to know that turning a company that deals primarily with Anime and Manga into some Californian woke friendly business would be the stupidest idea ever?
Did they not just took the biggest L ever in gaming due to Wokeness this year with Concord and immediately axed it and sent it right into the shitter along with the entire dev team?
I know some of you are joking but come on people, they aren't THAT incompetent.
Horseganador
Member
I hope you end up buying it.
Schmendrick
Member
Nonsense...
There are worlds between something like Elden Ring`s "antique pantheon" style and modern "in your face woke".
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Unknown?
Member
Mmmmm, the salt is good seasoning though.
Aren't they a bunch of sony fanboys? Why do they hate this?
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
God I love winning
Mibu no ookami
Banned
Imagine telling me that I don't follow the news well...
Also, you don't know what you're talking about. Sony owns 5% of Madhouse. They do not own Toei.
They do not have anything close to a monopoly in anime.
midnightAI
Banned
Pssst... Dont know if you noticed, but this forum, and in particular, this section, is about games.
(Edit: also, console exclusivity for a couple of games? What games are you talking about?)
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John Wick
Member
Yes! About time. Sony should have sealed this years ago. It ties in with their multimedia ambitions.
Sethbacca
Member
I'm more worried about Sony having a monopoly on the anime space than I am anything else. Crunchyroll is expensive enough as it is. I don't give a fuck about From games so whatever on that front.
John Wick
Member
Sony should just let the guy who runs From to keep on just running it. Why try to fix something that isn't broke.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
shenmue mugen
Member
Is Kadokawa really so massive that Sony would be interested in acquiring them?
Ar¢tos
Member
FromSoftware could do with a better engine and Studio Asobi help when optimizing their games.
John Wick
Member
Hopefully Hidetaka Miyazaki will be in charge with no interference from Sony. Except for better engine and optimisation work.
Ar¢tos
Member
Gaming (visual novels), magazine publishing, anime and real estate.
rabbity-thing
Member
Another day on gaf. . . another day to hear people complain about wokeness.
Honestly don't think this one's a big deal. From Software kinda feels like a Sony first-party anyway. As a bonus, maybe if they're under Sony's wing, they'll finally get some decent performance to match their god-tier game design.
Honestly don't think this one's a big deal. From Software kinda feels like a Sony first-party anyway. As a bonus, maybe if they're under Sony's wing, they'll finally get some decent performance to match their god-tier game design.
John Wick
Member
Geniuses don't worry about engines and optimisation. I'd rather From produce Elden Ring quality rather than stale optimised games.
Ar¢tos
Member
Astro Bot is a "stale optimized game"?
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MiguelItUp
Member
I honestly would prefer From just be left alone and not connected to any studio but their own. But whatever happens, happens. If it DOES happen, I obviously hope it's more good than bad. Man, that would suck so bad.
Hmm that camera is a bit zoomed out, can we shift that in a bit. That’s it…maybe offset it over the shoulder. Perfect.
Sanepar
Member
Era is almost a xbox community nowadays. Admins are xbox fanboys.
Skifi28
Member
Unrelated to the acquisition, but I'd rather they did both. In the end it's a game so being able to play it smoothly is a big part of the experience, genius or not. They're basically doing a disservice to their own games.
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LazyParrot
Member
We have no idea how the partnership between From and Sony has worked up until this point. Maybe they just let them do whatever they wanted. Maybe Sony presented a ton of really shitty proposals that From declined before eventually settling on something that reflected their own vision. If it's the latter, then being owned by Sony would have the obvious drawback that From would lose all bargaining power. If Sony really wanted them to, say, make a soulslike spinoff for Horizon then From would have to work on that, even if they thought the idea was stupid and would rather make something else.
really? I thought XboxEra was created because the purple forum was very pro-Sony.
kaizenkko
Member
Sony just published Stellar Blade this year and people keep saying these nonsense stuff. Besides that, From have start their golden run with a Sony partnership, aka Demon's Souls (and Bloodborne).
Stating that Sony somehow will destroy From Software is just dumb thinking.
Bojanglez
The Amiga Brotherhood
Sony's record with Studios that have previously worked as second party developers in their ecosystem has been pretty good though...
Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Guerilla etc.
midnightAI
Banned
They still would be their own studio though? It's not like they'd be forced to work with Naughty Dog or anything (although that Collab 'could' produce something amazing... From story/design with Naughty Dog tech)
They would most likely be part of SIE and one of the PlayStation Studios but they would be no different to any other studio in that they would be self reliant, they could continue using their own engine, or Decima (that is being offered to other studios within the group but most like their own engines as they are tailor made to the games they make), or a third party engine like UE5, its up to them.
MiguelItUp
Member
Well, potentially. It really all depends on the agreement to be quite honest.
It could likely "be no different", but I still think one of the things that makes From so special is how they represented themselves. Especially when their success relies on their own success as a whole, no one else.
Sanepar
Member
Can you guys elaborate this? They get 10 goty contenders in a row. Made great games since 2008. It has 1 failure game.
Saber
Member
I don't believe they not gonna give full libertity to Myiazaki to do what he wants to. From works better being independent, pretty much like Kojima.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Party McHardy
Member
Acquiring Aquire? I have mixed feelings about this.