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Shure, more and more and more from MS. Fxck you Jim!

More acquisitions to port PS games to PC, mobile and Meta? Yea shure! 100%

 

[yurinka]

Nice. Well, we already knew many months ago that Sony was working on more acquiitions and that they had a budget of $18B for acquisitions (not only for gaming) from last year to 2023 and that they only had spent $4B. Now with this they have $10B for more acquisitions, and this is if they don't raise that budget.

I'd have prefered Capcom (+Dimps), Sega and/or Kadokawa (or to buy them FromSoft). If they continue buying big let's hope they go in this way, but I don't think won't be the case. I think they'll go back to smaller acquisitions.

 

[Gone]

Jim Ryan on the Bungie acquisition

"Bungie’s successful track record in multi-format publishing and live game services will assist us in realizing our ambitions to take PlayStation beyond the console and increase our potential audience."

 

[MrTentakel]

Most of that is for shitty mobile games tbh. Outside of COD. They make most of their money from Mobile games.


1. Why can't they do both? Just because you can't do more than one thing at once doesn't mean it's not being worked on.
2. They already stated it's coming
3. Will never happen
4. Literally don't know what the fuck this means. xd

This acquisition does nothing for me. I don`t get anything new, exiting all I get is the "enjoyment" of limiting the fun of xbox owners.
Great!

 

[captainpat]

sounds like a threat lol

 

[Zeroing]

Please someone hide my SEGA from the Sony, Nintendo and MS

Nintendo is sleeping!

 

[oldergamer]

I can see them buying ubisoft, or something cheaper. Definitely not more expensive.

Dunno if Ubisoft is for sale. they could have sold to Vivendi and didn't

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Then it unties hands of Microsoft for new acquisitions

 

[nikolino840]

Wasn't only studios closest with Sony?

 

[K' Dash]

Sony is gonna chip away at the "smaller" companies in the puny 1-6 billion range.

Bungie, Konami, and Capcom are next to go and they are going to sony.

the Bethesda acquisition made a ton of sense. I hate the Activision purchase because other than COD there's NOTHING. I don't wanna hear about the blizzard stuff. Activision has nothing.

if Sony gets Capcom or square that's MASSIVE IPS. If I had the money I would have used the 70 billion on the smaller companies who actually produce ips

Sony should buy SE, maybe then we would see a decent game from them.

 

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

Please stay away from the Japanese devs worth a damn. Please fuck off and stick to western games that would be censored anyway.

Japanese devs probably won't give up the chance to get their games on a Nintendo platform in the era of the Switch. Though since Sony announced that Destiny's still gonna be multiplat, they may be planning around this.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Sony explaining its commitment to GAAS...

 

[iHaunter]

This acquisition does nothing for me. I don`t get anything new, exiting all I get is the "enjoyment" of limiting the fun of xbox owners.
Great!

It's just an interesting thing. Will something come out of it, maybe, maybe not.

 

[kuncol02]

Same as Bungie.

Capcom might be more beloved. But I think Bungie is pure profit with just one game.

Capcom is at least twice as expensive. Even their market cap alone is over $6bln

 

[Lone Wolf]

This just reaffirms my decision to spend the time and effort over holiday break to have a modded Wii and PSX and PS2 and Dreamcast hooked up to a CRT.

Because if this industry goes to shit i have probably 10,000 hours of games ready to go

My Polymega arrived today and I’m loading it up with all my games. Always good to have a retro outlet.

 

[TheMan]

Interesting to see MS drop nukes while Sony goes for the surgical strikes

Honestly can't wait to see what's next

 

[TheDreadLord]

What about all this organic growth bullshit?

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

I dont get it. Two days ago you were saying that these acquisitions were not for the gamers, but news for the investors and now you look to be celebrating this.
What has changed?

Nothing. I still don't like acquisitions. But even worse is losing access to IPs that i enjoy. I've been lucky so far.

I just mentioned the IPs from SE and Capcom that are big and said they were more my thing that the ones from Activision and Bethesda even if they are worth less. That's all.

 

[kingfey]

Sony get square. Get them, before tencent gets them

 

[Mister Wolf]

That will just make Microsoft go even harder with the acquisitions.

 

[Twinblade]

Capcom, Kojima productions, Konami and Square are next.... might as well right?

 

[Elder Legend]

if I had to pick, I hope they buy Ubisoft or Capcom. Ubisoft has a lot of studios that could make different games.
Take-Two would cost a lot

I don't see Ubisoft going to Sony. I believe Ubisoft already has some sort of contract signed with MS for Game Pass similar how EA Play is part of Game Pass, same is happening with Ubisoft. If anything, they would go to MS.

Capcom is the only logical choice, both Japanese and have strong history, SF 5 was also funded by Sony.

 

[oldergamer]

Take Two is next.

Take 2 is worth more then the 18 - 19 billion sony has on hand. If you really knew how Rockstar had been run all these years ( like a mafia run business ), you wouldn't try to purchase them

 

[Forsythia]

If Sony buys studios I like, fine, but at least let me buy a PS5 Jim!

 

[LavitzSlambert]

What about all this organic growth bullshit?

They’ll report it as organic growth in next FY financials.

 

[Cyber_hunter026]

I don't know why, but I picture Jim just saying this

 

[Skifi28]

What about all this organic growth bullshit?

It was an organic purchase, nothing like those other synthetic ones.

 

[GhostOfTsu]

What about all this organic growth bullshit?

MS started this shitshow using Facebook and Google as the boogeyman. No more organic growth for Sony, just grab everything you can if you want to survive. Big Tech and their cheerleaders are coming.

 

[Elios83]

Nice. Well, we already knew many months ago that Sony was working on more acquiitions and that they had a budget of $18B for acquisitions (not only for gaming) from last year to 2023 and that they only had spent $4B. Now with this they have $10B for more acquisitions, and this is if they don't raise that budget.

That is an old business plan thought for a pre-consolidation era.
They have probably revised their plans and budgets accordingly.
Q&A during the financial results next wednesday will be interesting.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

You're thinking too much about market value when it's more about what each one of us prefers in terms of IPs.

If Sony acquires Square-Enix + Capcom for like 15 / 20b and gets IPs like Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Deus Ex, Kingdom Hearts, Life Is Strange, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter it would be the biggest 2 gets so far this year. But that's based on my tastes and not how much money each IP does or is worth, obviously.

Imagine if they get Castlevania, Silent Hill, Metal Gear, Contra, YuGiOh and Pro Evo...

 

[Ramz87]

Konami next.

 

[JimRyanGOAT]

Smaller studios like From Software imo

No more big studios it’s bad for the industry

 

[JimRyanGOAT]

Konami next.

Please no

What has Konami done recently ?

Why spend so much money to make a bunch of hardcores happy ?!? Makes no business sense bungie is a massive studio that sells games

 

[Zeroing]

Sony doesn’t go after big IPs, they are after talent

Housemarque - arcade games with space to evolve into AAA games

Insomniac - their talent to deliver good games at a lesser time

Etc…
All points that their next acquisitions will be studios they worked with or are working with…

 

[graywolf323]

Then it unties hands of Microsoft for new acquisitions

ah yes the classic it's Sony's fault that MS keeps buying publishers

 

[NoviDon]

Sony acquired the Evo Tournament last year. I think the next buys will be Namco Bandai plus one of: Capcom, Kojima Productions, Square Enix, From Software.

 

[Max Payne’s Baretta]

Take Two is next.

Sony got 40 - 50b ?

 

[balls of snow]

Get Remedy before Tencent gets remedy.

 

[JimRyanGOAT]

And it's really obvious something like this would've been in the works for months, it's just a strange coincidence that the news broke so close to the Activision deal.

Stock

 

[Elios83]

Konami next.

Capcom imo.
Same ballpark as Bungie. 5-6 billions top.

 

[fermcr]

 

[dotnotbot]

CD Projekt Red is next baby Go get them Jimmy!

 

[DragoonKain]

Buy Konami and hire Kojima to run it.

 

[j0hnnix]

Miyazaki waiting..

 

[Kamina]

On a scale of mild shock to full on insta-crap-in-pants; how surprised would you be if Sony managed to acquire Nintendo somehow?
Edit: answer with pictures showing your surprise levels

 

[JimRyanGOAT]

CD Projekt Red is next baby Go get them Jimmy!

They fell off

All the talent left after Witcher 3

From Software is a solid choice

And maybe Dan housers new studio

Kojima for sure even though he wants to stay independent

 

[aclar00]

Please someone hide my SEGA from the Sony, Nintendo and MS

If anyone were to get Segas it should be Ninty. For old time sakes...

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Sony doesn’t go after big IPs, they are after talent

Housemarque - arcade games with space to evolve into AAA games

Insomniac - their talent to deliver good games at a lesser time

Etc…
All points that their next acquisitions will be studios they worked with or are working with…

A 3.6 billion acquisition from Bungie sounds like a huge step up from the 230 million they paid for Insomniac in 2019.

They are also acquiring a lot of talent. Bungie has over 800 people. Firesprite has over 250. That's over a thousand people with these 2 alone.

 

[SlimySnake]

Sony is gonna chip away at the "smaller" companies in the puny 1-6 billion range.

Bungie, Konami, and Capcom are next to go and they are going to sony.

the Bethesda acquisition made a ton of sense. I hate the Activision purchase because other than COD there's NOTHING. I don't wanna hear about the blizzard stuff. Activision has nothing.

if Sony gets Capcom or square that's MASSIVE IPS. If I had the money I would have used the 70 billion on the smaller companies who actually produce ips

I said this in the other thread, but paying $70 billion for cod wasnt about bringing more content to gamepass, it was about killing Playstation or putting gamepass on Playstation. MS couldve bought Square, Capcom, CD Project, Ubisoft, Take 2 for $70 billion and have all the content in the world but they wanted the game that could bring Sony to the bargaining table.

$19 billion is what Netflix spends on content every year. $12 billion on new content. These acqusiitions are about more than content. It's war.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Things would become really chaotic if they bought Valve