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[Oddvintagechap]

Sega from SegaSammy Holdings. SegaSammy renames to AtlusSammy.

 

[jakinov]

MS spent $75b buying 2 pc stores. Now Sony spent $3b on bungie, and will buy big publishers in the future.

Valve owns steam, which has big pc market share. It's value is between $4b-$10b.

If anyone of these 2 companies buy valve, we pc community are screwed.

Future now is bleak.

Whats bleak about it? Owning valve doesn’t mean shit when all the games can just move to Epic Or Microsoft.

Who cares if big publishers are bought, the biggest games nowadays do not come from big publishers.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[Elios83]

Either Capcom or Square or Kadokawa.
This year. Prices are going to go up, more companies will feel like it's time to do the same and things will get more difficult.

The way they are approaching these deals is also difficult to refuse, people get covered in money, they keep a degree of power/control, antitrust is happy as well

 

[Stuart360]

2 of these like Capcom and Square Enix would put Sony in a really good position

Konami for their IPs: Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, etc

Square Enix is a cert for me, been saying it for ages.
I doubt Konami though as Konami barely have any dev teams left, so yeah you get a lot of decent IP's with no one to develop them. Unless you farm them out to someone.

 

[Captain Toad]

The common thread between all these acquisitions - they're NOT Japanese. Yet, everyone keeps guessing the next one will be a major Japanese publisher.

 

[Represent.]

CDProjekt

 

[skit_data]

KojiPro, Ember Labs, Remedy and Deviation.

They seem to invest in Deviation already, they have history with KojiPro and Ember Labs and I threw in Remedy because they are a talented studio that has a unique touch but still fits pretty well in Playstation Studios.

 

[nani17]

The common thread between all these acquisitions - they're NOT Japanese. Yet, everyone keeps guessing the next one will be a major Japanese publisher.

That's something I didn't even think about to be honest. I wonder will it ever happen

 

[ManaByte]

WB Games. They won't get the WB IPs, but all of the Midway stuff.

 

[bitbydeath]

The common thread between all these acquisitions - they're NOT Japanese. Yet, everyone keeps guessing the next one will be a major Japanese publisher.

They’ll likely be sold only to either Sony or Nintendo. Ninty needs to step their purchase game up.

 

[Corrik]

I think it’s a good get for Sony, but the price is mad for me. Given they could have bought most of Square or Capcom for that, I do wonder what the value is.

The prices you guys have thrown around for Capcom and such is not what they would cost if bought. So there is that.

 

[Sanepar]

Square, Capcom and From.

 

[Leyasu]

They will acquire 4 or 5 more studios as they line up their ducks for their own day and date subscription service.

I know Jim gets shit on a lot, but Don Mattrick he ain't. He knows that subscription service revenue can massively help reduce the cost burden of running the studios and people will still buy games that don't subscribe. The delta between console and PC release dates will eventually reduce to nothing also.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[G-Bus]

Wouldn't Capcom kind of line up with the acquisition of the Evo championship fighting thingy?

I know nothing, clearly. Just seems like two thing that go together a bit.

 

[SLB1904]

oops

fine

 

[Captain Toad]

It's not Capcom, SquareEnix, Konami or Sega guys. Give it up.

I'd guess Remedy.

Regardless, it will be western studios.

 

[Kagey K]

yeah they did buy Psygnosis back in 1993 which was before the original PS1 even launched

As we've seen from recent acquisitions, games take time to make. They bought them to prepare for the launch of the PS1, not sure why that makes any difference.

Thread title "Has Sony ever bought any publishers?"

Answer: Yes.

 

[SSfox]

Don't forget Platinium games.

 

[Elios83]

CDProjekt

They would be have been a good get to cover the western RPG genre but they kinda ruined both their reputation and relationship with Sony with Cyberpunk so it's unlikely imo.

 

[ZywyPL]

I'm getting to the point of feeling like all the manufacturers are moving beyond the concept of 'consoles'. Consoles now are almost like a branded PC. These companies want to put their games on more platforms for more money. In their mind, software is where the gold is.

Wouldn't be surprised if Sony is spinning up their own 'meta verse' with PS Home 2.

Money was never in the hardware, it was always the software, the game's, the DLCs, the MTX, the services. So why spend a billion and a half on designing a new console, then sell it at a loss or manufacturing cost at best, when you can sell the same software on people's PCs, TVs, laptops, smartphones etc. Lesser investment, bigger reach, more profit, this is the way. Now I know a lot of Gaf is obsessed with physical copies, but those times are inevitably coming to an end.

MS buys Hazelight and Josef Fares will personally announce it on TGA saying "FUCK THE OSCARS SONY!".

 

[SSfox]

It's not Capcom, SquareEnix, Konami or Sega guys. Give it up.

I'd guess Remedy.

Regardless, it will be western studios.

Gonna be another Fucking boring again episode if so.

 

[Cyber_hunter026]

Don't forget Platinium games.

I was going to include them, but I'm not sure of their history with sony or lack therefor or how they feel about being owned so I left them out.

 

[mckmas8808]

Paying 3.6bil for just Destiny seems like a waste.

They didn't pay $3.6 Billion just for Destiny though. Why do yall keep saying this?

 

[CheeseCake]

I think Remedy or Capcom. Not sure

 

[cormack12]

It's not Capcom, SquareEnix, Konami or Sega guys. Give it up.

I'd guess Remedy.

Regardless, it will be western studios.

Remedy is a good shout and would be my pick especially on the back of control which suits the PS Library very well

 

[Gloomnivore]

Well, Jim missed out on Wordle.

 

[Blood Borne]

They’ll be fools if they have opportunity to purchase Square-Enix or Capcom and not take it.

 

[SSfox]

I was going to include them, but I'm not sure of their history with sony or lack therefor or how they feel about being owned so I left them out.

I see. They would be amazing purshase imo, all the game they made before and post Capcom are so legendary, and probably for sure not as expansive as Bungie but much better value, imo at least.

 

[ZywyPL]

They didn't pay $3.6 Billion just for Destiny though. Why do yall keep saying this?

Probably has something to do with the fact that's the only thing Bungie has been doing in the past 12 years... Yeah, might be it.

 

[Fbh]

I don't know man, PC is looking better than ever to me.

MS seems committed to releasing everything on PC day 1.
Sony is porting over more and more games and were just talking about "expanding their audience beyond the console" today.
A lot of Japanese devs and publishers, which for a long time focused on consoles, are now launching all their big games on PC, with some like Capcom saying they want it to be their primary platform.

The only thing keeping consoles relevant to me at the moment are the ridiculous GPU prices. The moment when (if?) prices become reasonable again I see no reason to stick with consoles with their paid multiplayer, expensive games and lack of customization.

 

[Robot Carnival]

The other stores all suck ass, that’s why people want their games on Steam. Nearly 20 years and their most “dangerous” competitor is a barebones storefront that took 3 years to implement a shopping cart and has to bribe developers and give away games on a weekly basis in order to maintain what little mindshare it has gained since 2018.

I’ll gladly get on the Fuck Gaben train once he actually gives me a reason to be mad at him. Until then, Im sticking with the store with the most features and the longest and best track record.

pretty much this. I've been using Steam for almost 16 years now and seeing how the other launchers are did not make me want to move away. I was just playing It Takes Two with a friend of mine the other day and even thou I got the game on Steam it still require me to sign up for Origin. I figured, sure that's fine, I'll at least give it a try. after messing around with Origin for 15 minutes or so trying to add my friend via searching his name and what not without success, I have to quit the game and took a while longer in order to get that figured out before was able to finally play the game. needless to say I don't see myself using Origin outside of playing ITT anytime soon. I've used the Blizzard launder before too and while it's slightly better, it's still in no way comparable to Steam. if any of these other launders can actually manage to not suck so bad and able to match with Steam toe to toe, I won't mind switching. as for Gabe, the more proper question should be, what had he done that warrant anyone to hate him? dude's been pretty chill and just let his work speaks for himself. I don't see any reason to hate him as far as I can tell.

 

[JokerMM]

 

[SlimySnake]

It takes Two was published by EA.

If EA goes to Sony or Microsoft, we are all fucked.

 

[MonarchJT]

They didn't pay $3.6 Billion just for Destiny though. Why do yall keep saying this?

what else Bungie is worth for ?

 

[kyussman]

Everyone is gonna have a PS5 and an XSX by the end of this gen,lol.

 

[Grumpy Toe Nail]

Duh, PC is who benefits the most here, all those Sony and MS IPs that were locked behind their plastic boxes and their pathetic 30FPS are now coming to PC, very soon there really will be little to no point in getting a console.

Besides convenience/price. Sometimes i wish i had a console still because i fucking hate the upkeep that PC's require. I just want to fucking game, not enter bios.

 

[TheDreadLord]

What is the point of acquiring EA? Their cash cow is FIFA which is a licensed IP.

 

[MonarchJT]

i don't think is Sony or Ms buying this time

 

[Andodalf]

He clarified that this isn't a haze light tease either.

I think this could be the big apple or amazon move.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

i cant believe joseph fares is buying tango gameworks

 

[Kilau]

Sony and EA since they’ve already shown they don’t mind making sports games for everyone else.

 

[digital_ghost]

I hope they buy either square enix or capcom.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Gotta be honest. I don’t give a shit about the rest of the western publishers. Things aren’t gonna tickle my undercarriage until JP publishers and devs start getting snatched up.

EA? Ubisoft? Who really cares?

 

[JediMind]

Tango softworks are owned by Microsoft so I guess MS is buying take2.

 

[reforen]

Someone is gonna purchase the Drunk Dude company

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Ubisoft
Remedy
FromSoftware

The Division (looter shooter GAAS)
The Crew (open world racer)
Remedy for their cinematic 3rd person action adventure games
FromSoftware for the RPG side of things

These (if possible) would be very good acquisitions and bolster Sony's lineup in key genres.

 

[cireza]

Microsoft buying EA. Looks pretty simple, really.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Gotta be honest. I don’t give a shit about the rest of the western publishers. Things aren’t gonna tickle my undercarriage until JP publishers and devs start getting snatched up.

EA? Ubisoft? Who really cares?

Nobody cares about JP publishers.