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Good reason for Discovery is to get out of their mountain of debt.

Good reason for Sony, they've been wanting to expand in the TV/Movie industry for quite some time. The gaming side is only a small part of this acquisition but there is room to grow it with the IP's WB has.

Personally I would love to see Looney Tunes games again. That's an easy way to snag some of Nintendo's audience.

I was only 8 years old when that game came out and remember it being total dogshit. We need a proper Taz game.

 

[Yoboman]

Marathon is an odd situation, why didn't they release Concord or Helldivers on Xbox?

Concord was a new IP and acquisition of a startup, there was zero regulatory pressure or financial reason for that. Helldivers wasnt even tied to an acquisition?

You're comparing apples to oranges. We are talking about buying a major publisher in 2025 when a standard has already been set of keeping them multiplatform and publishers are so big they spend billions on operations every year. You can't just throw out revenue sources

 

[L*][*N*K]

Concord was a new IP and acquisition of a startup, there was zero regulatory pressure or financial reason for that. Helldivers wasnt even tied to an acquisition?

You're comparing apples to oranges. We are talking about buying a major publisher in 2025 when a standard has already been set of keeping them multiplatform and publishers are so big they spend billions on operations every year. You can't just throw out revenue sources

I am comparing Apples to Smoked Briskets, my whole point is if it is up to Sony they will make a deal with Microsoft to keep Halo off Xbox

 

[yurinka]

Marathon is an odd situation, why didn't they release Concord or Helldivers on Xbox?

Because Sony wants to do some multiplatform stuff with Bungie, but to keep PS Studios home console exclusive (with the MLB exception).

WTF Sony is doing this gen?

To be the market leader breaking records in most areas.

Do you actually believe if Sony owned the right to Batman games the next Rocksteady game will be on Xbox???

Xbox consoles are almost dead, so to make WB Games exclusive wouldn't change anything other than to earn a bit less money with them. Pretty likely they'd do the same than with Bungie or Aniplex: to keep them multiplatform.

The acquisition wouldn't be cheap, so they'll want to maximize their revenue and profit as much as possible specially until they recoup it.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Xbox consoles are almost dead, so to make WB Games exclusive wouldn't change anything other than to earn a bit less money with them. Pretty likely they'd do the same than with Bungie or Aniplex: to keep them multiplatform.

Nintendo isn't dead, will we see WB games on Nintendo consoles?

The acquisition wouldn't be cheap, so they'll want to maximize their revenue and profit as much as possible specially until they recoup it.

Sony Defendology 101

 

[PlayStaytion]

They're guilty until proven to make a first and a second sequel for each WBs IPs.

 

[Heisenberg007]

WB has such great IPs, and they keep messing up their operations.

If Sony can improve upon that and give us fantastic Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Batman / Superman games, I'm all for it.

 

[yurinka]

Nintendo isn't dead, will we see WB games on Nintendo consoles?

I never said Nintendo is dead.

Sony Defendology 101

No, it's business fundamentals 101.

Contrary to what brainrot fanboys think, game companies are a business and the AAA game budgets and acquisitions are super expensive investments that need to be recouped and have a certain profitability or at least sustainability asap.

And when a big corportation makes a big acquisition it's because they want to have the revenue and profit of that company on top of the one they already have, and create synergies between the acquired one and what they already have to grow the revenue and profit the acquired company generates.

In case of gaming, normally means help them giving them new better/bigger funding, marketing channels, internal services and support, plus access to more revenue channels, like helping them to better access new platforms, countries, stores or user demographics.

We're in times where AAA budgets take a few hundreds of millions, and big acquisitions cost several billions. So to recoup this selling games for a single platform isn't enough, so all big AAA publishers (including MS and Sony) keep expanding to multiplatform to grow and improve their business and making it more sustainable and less risky.

 

[L*][*N*K]

I never said Nintendo is dead.


No, it's business fundamentals 101.

Contrary to what brainrot fanboys think, game companies are a business and the AAA game budgets and acquisitions are super expensive investments that need to be recouped and have a certain profitability or at least sustainability asap.

And when a big corportation makes a big acquisition it's because they want to have the revenue and profit of that company on top of the one they already have, and create synergies between the acquired one and what they already have to grow the revenue and profit the acquired company generates.

In case of gaming, normally means help them giving them new better/bigger funding, marketing channels, internal services and support, plus access to more revenue channels, like helping them to better access new platforms, countries, stores or user demographics.

We're in times where AAA budgets take a few hundreds of millions, and big acquisitions cost several billions. So to recoup this selling games for a single platform isn't enough, so all big AAA publishers (including MS and Sony) keep expanding to multiplatform to grow and improve their business and making it more sustainable and less risky.

Oh I love it when they make up business fundamentals out of their asses just to defend a company, it is so much fun