Rumour: Sony in talks to acquire Paramount

Paramount is trash and will be bankrupt within 5 years unless they get bailed out. Hopefully Sony has Apollo putting up most of the bill here.
 
 
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Better build up that war chest Sony. Paramount has been losing shit loads of money lately.

The stock used to be $100. Now $10. It got boosted to $12 due to the buy out rumours. Current market cap today is $8 billion. So a buy out might be around $10 billion or so,
 
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I don't see this being gaming related.
Paramount has movie/tv adaptations of stuff like Halo and Sonic. Plus stuff like Nickolodeon (TMNT, Bob Squarepants), Star Trek, Top Gun, Impossible Mission and many movies/tv shows whose IP could be/have been used in gaming.

If Sony acquires them, some of these movies could end as part of the 100+ PS Plus movies.
 
Didn't know Paramount was in trouble. Isn't it like a huge media conglomerate with Viacom and lots of famous IPs? They should be rolling in cash like Uncle Scrooge.
 
Didn't know Paramount was in trouble. Isn't it like a huge media conglomerate with Viacom and lots of famous IPs? They should be rolling in cash like Uncle Scrooge.
They used to make decent money. Ever since they went gung ho with streaming app, stock price and profits dropped like a rock.
 
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Honestly I think best case scenario would be Netflix buying it. I'd like Netflix to own 1 legacy studio that knows how to make even mid-tier movies. Get those people and that production pipeline. And Netflix hasn't bought anyone so I don't think anyone could really call it excessive yet.
 
Paramount has movie/tv adaptations of stuff like Halo and Sonic. Plus stuff like Nickolodeon (TMNT, Bob Squarepants), Star Trek, Top Gun, Impossible Mission and many movies/tv shows whose IP could be/have been used in gaming.

If Sony acquires them, some of these movies could end as part of the 100+ PS Plus movies.

They meant GAMES!!
 
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Please no streaming is such an albatross at the moment if shit hits the fan gaming will get affected. All these streaming TV services are bleeding money.
 
Halo TV show exclusive on Playstation.

Would be hilarious.






ok FU sony, can you please pay more attention on Playstation acquisition?
 
Those are just movie rights though not IPs, right? I thought Hasbro and Tomy own Transformers.

Yeah, just the movie rights. To get Transformers outright they'd have to work out a deal or acquire Hasbro.

Maybe? I'm sure Paramount owns some decent gaming IPs.

I found this.

Just looking through it, basically the type of licensed slop you'd expect from a C-tier games publisher near the end of a console generation :/
 
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I mean this is interesting but remember Sony pictures and playstation are two different entities.

It could amount in licensed games, could also amount in absolutely nothing
 
Wasn't there some dumb reddit post ~6 months ago from /GamingLeaksandRumours saying that MS were in talks to buy paramount?

At least this is from the NYTimes, but still, believe it when I see it.
 
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A proper Star Trek game would be hot.
If only Sony had bought Star Wars instead of Disney.

If only...

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I found this.

Just looking through it, basically the type of licensed slop you'd expect from a C-tier games publisher near the end of a console generation :/
That list is for their game studios and not related to their IPs. It's missing some more recent popular B tier games that Paramount owns the IP for but are developed by third party studios.

Southpark stick of truth
Spongebob: battle for bikini bottom
TMNT Cowabunga collection
 
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