Banjo64
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[Reuters] Exclusive-Sony in talks to buy media powerhouse behind 'Elden Ring', sources say
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ap_puff
Banned
Get the kids the gift of trial by fire for christmasLego Dark Souls GaaS incoming.
ap_puff
Banned
Nintendo???? You've lost your mind
Bernardougf
Member
Oh great.. Miyazaki will now make gaas games...
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I don't see this resulting in a single positive for gamers, but sure - let the great consolidation continue until there's nothing left.
POKEYCLYDE
Member
So far just a rumor, these things usually don't break beforehand.
I'll be interested to see how easy or how hard of a time something like this will have going through regulators.
I'll be interested to see how easy or how hard of a time something like this will have going through regulators.
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
True exclusivity is good and healthy.
Did you hear, guys? Apparently, locking down exclusives like The Elder Scrolls, Starfield, and Indiana Jones is fine for a failing console brand, but when the market leader keeps FromSoftware's gems exclusive to PlayStation, it suddenly becomes a huge issue.
Little Chicken
Banned
I'm here for the inevitable cringe Aloy armor set in ER2.
He will try something new at least
Radical_3d
Member
You mean the guy who’s been making the same fucking game since 2007?
Varteras
Member
Elden Dawn: Forbidden Ring
ap_puff
Banned
On a more lighthearted note, how long until Dark Souls games gets put on those "Sony games are all the same" montages?
Radical_3d
Member
I thought I despised Souls games. But now you’ve put into my mind the image of a cinematic over the shoulder souls with a kid giving you the solution to puzzles and I can’t even…
TrebleShot
Member
Anyone thinking this is for anime by the way is living in a dream land, how much money does sony make from gaming vs anime, lets get fucking real people.
Well they are all TP and there are trees, all evidences were there for years
Darkness_Arises
Member
Those are some great points. However, I am not holding my breath for the bolded, unless the market penalizes this behaviour of releasing unoptimized crap and From's horrendous optimization record will persist.
The lack of optimization in japanese software is truly baffling. This year we got Metaphor (a game I actually hope wins GoTY), which is a prime example of this. It runs like crap (especially considering how it looks) and I do not know why it does not have the option for even basic post-process AA techniques like SMAA or FXAA. P5R had SMAA if I recall correctly.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Well, Sony made a lot of money from anime streaming, music, IP rights and gachas like FGO. Crunchyroll surpassed the $2B User Spending Mark this year. It's no slouch and the margins there were very, very good, better than in gaming.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Silver lining is that although this would have a high chance of killing From Soft, we’ve had the best run. DeS, DaS, DaS III, Sekiro, Bloodborne and ER - 6 phenomenal world class games with a lot of replayability and we’ll probably get an uncompromised ER II as well. Miyazaki is 50 now and would probably realistically look to step back by the age of what, 60? The games have endless replayability, we’ve been blessed.
Parazels
Member
What about bigger budgets for From Software games?
Also no longer dealing with Series S limitations.
Go for it Sony. I do I buy multiplatform games but I always prefer exclusives or 1st party or 2nd party because it will have better quality due to it developers focus all there resources on the capabilities of a specific console. I just hope it will not turn woke. By the way, correct me if Im wrong, from what I know Sony already has shares with fromsoftware especially with Elden ring?
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Mibu no ookami
Banned
All of this is on the table with the trifecta of FromSoftware + Bluepoint + Nixxes
Demon's Souls PC Port
Demon's Souls 2 AKA Dark Souls 4 - PS5, PC a year after launch
Bloodborne Remastered - PS5, PC a year after launch
Bloodborne 2 - PS5, PC a year after launch
Elden Ring 2 - PS5, PC a year after launch
That's 3 new games, a port, and a remaster probably all within the next 5-7 years.
bitbydeath
Member
Sounds like a done deal then.
Perrott
Member
Hopefully all the "why did Sony close the Japan Studio?" crybabies would now shut the fuck up, as this acquisition would bring Spike Chunsoft (Danganronpa, AI: The Somnium Files, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero), Acquire (Tenchu, No Heroes Allowed, Rain, Octopath Traveller) and FromSoftware (Bloodborne, Elden Ring, Souls, Armored Core, Sekiro) into the fold.
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GHG
Member
Bernardougf
Member
Not enough room for that strong jaw and fat cheeks
Someone needs to Photoshop Aloy's face on this
Varteras
Member
Mibu no ookami
Banned
You could create a new Japan Studios label.
But just think of the prestige of having Asobi, Polyphony Digital, and FromSoftware. I think that would put them up against pretty much any Japanese studio not named Nintendo.
Bernardougf
Member
Lets talk in a few years ... if they are not gaas machines and/or have been closed .. than we can celebrate.
delishcaek
Member
two thirds? Are you high?
FromSoft makes them a ton of profit when they release a game, yes, but overall their gaming segment's revenue makes up not even 20% of their overall revenue. The profit can be amazing when they have something like Elden Ring on their hands as can be seen from their financial reports (2022-2023), but even then their gaming profit just equals their anime/manga segment.
Their gaming segment is extremely volatile generating 5-15 billion Yen profit, while their anime/manga segment is growing and is generating a stable 15-20 billion Yen profit each year (it would be over 20b for 2025 if they hadn't had a cyberattack earlier this year which cost them 6.4b in profit according to their financial report).
This is what Sony wants. Getting FromSoft for Playstation is just a nice bonus here.
Klayzer
Member
Western media hit pieces incoming, hard. Get ready for gems like this:
Activision buyout from Microsoft is different because reasons,
Sony is monopolizing the industry,
Gamers are the real losers in this deal,
Nintendo would be a better fit for FromSoft
Gaming across the board needs a reset,
Consolidation is now terrible. Turn tables everywhere abruptly.
Activision buyout from Microsoft is different because reasons,
Sony is monopolizing the industry,
Gamers are the real losers in this deal,
Nintendo would be a better fit for FromSoft
Gaming across the board needs a reset,
Consolidation is now terrible. Turn tables everywhere abruptly.
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Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Ahahahahahahahaha
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
Yep. Never doubt that the games media will have the exactly wrong conversation at sny given time.
It probably (hopefully) has very little to do with gaming.
Sounds like another player is involved other than Sony. Best bet is Tencent as they already own shares in Kadakawa.
I won't be surprised if they accept Sony as Kadakawa has a piece of the pie in almost everything non-gaming and that sort of stuff is better to have with another domestic company, rather than selling all those rights and ownerships to a Chinese company.
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Mibu no ookami
Banned
Think people are misunderstanding the tweet. Based on other translated tweets, it looks like Kadokawa has been looking to sell for some time, so they may have engaged in talks with other companies before Sony.
That Sony involved and talks look like they'll be wrapped up within weeks, we're looking at this being a done deal by the end of the year...
Massive move by Sony.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
if something leaks, it means that either it will be announced within a week or it is not happening
