Sony Buys EVO

What is the point of this? Waste of money if you ask me. This money should've gone towards securing a steady flow of content stream for PlayStation years to come through the acquisitions of Kojima Productions, Bluepoint Studio, and expanding Japan Studio - not downsizing them.
 
THEAP99 said:
What is the point of this? Waste of money if you ask me. This money should've gone towards securing a steady flow of content stream for PlayStation years to come through the acquisitions of Kojima Productions, Bluepoint Studio, and expanding Japan Studio - not downsizing them.
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It's a joint venture. I think it's a great call, to be honest, as long as they don't remove non-Sony games from the tournament. I think they won't and it'll probably be more of an overseer type of owner interest.
 
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Well we may get an SF6 after all then in which case that's great news.

Evo was cancelled this year effectively so I guess it was pretty cheap to pick up.

EDIT: oh yeah and that controversy ...
 
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Bladed Thesis said:
It's a joint venture. I think it's a great call, to be honest, as long as they don't remove non-Sony games from the tournament. I think they won't and it'll probably be more of an overseer type of owner interest.
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I saw a tweet but can't find it, smash will continue to be in EVO
 
This is weird. Will Evo keep hosting Smash tournaments too as it used to be big part of Evo alongside Streefighter, or are they axing everething that dosent run on Playstation consoles?
 
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THEAP99 said:
What is the point of this? Waste of money if you ask me. This money should've gone towards securing a steady flow of content stream for PlayStation years to come through the acquisitions of Kojima Productions, Bluepoint Studio, and expanding Japan Studio - not downsizing them.
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They've been hosting and sponsoring fighting game tournaments for years.

Sony buying EVO is a mere drop in a bucket compared to buying a new studio. I don't know why anyone would think this would impact their chances of buying a new studio.
 
THEAP99 said:
What is the point of this? Waste of money if you ask me. This money should've gone towards securing a steady flow of content stream for PlayStation years to come through the acquisitions of Kojima Productions, Bluepoint Studio, and expanding Japan Studio - not downsizing them.
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I doubt it was that expensive, all things considered.
 
DForce said:
They've been hosting and sponsoring fighting game tournaments for years.

Sony buying EVO is a mere drop in a bucket compared to buying a new studio. I don't know why anyone would think this would impact their chances of buying a new studio.
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Rentahamster said:
I doubt it was that expensive, all things considered.
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Well hopefully u guys are right. I just don't see how this benefits me as a playstation gamer.

Even Jeff Grub is making fun of it

 
THEAP99 said:
What is the point of this? Waste of money if you ask me. This money should've gone towards securing a steady flow of content stream for PlayStation years to come through the acquisitions of Kojima Productions, Bluepoint Studio, and expanding Japan Studio - not downsizing them.
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Probably incredibly cheap; the point being marketing.
 
Not a good purchase for consoles warriors but I say it's a really smart move considering how mainstream these tournaments will become in the future
 
So...I mean this is just a way to make more money then. Evo doesn't develop games, they just host tournaments. Waiting on more information for what this means for us...but right i'm just like....ok???
 
I mean, this is potentially absolutely massive for the FGC. It was a big deal when ESPN hosted the SF5 finals a couple years back, that seems like it would be the norm when you have Sony budget and marketing behind it.

Also I enjoy how there are threads saying Sony is totally lost when it comes to multiplayer and esports (here is a good one), and here they are buying an esports company and the response is to ask why? lol
 
Cool, it means two things.
Playstation will be the defacto home for fighting games in the future, second the Playstation brand will get tons of marketing exposure among fighting games communities and all the events around those games.
This has nothing to do with acquiring studios, it's not an alternative either, it's about key and strategic brand positioning and for what it is it's very smart.
 
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Newest addition to the "Playstation family"? So who's gonna be at the next familiy party? Evo, Jim and Sgt. Rescue from Destruction Allstars? Probably gonna skip that. 😐
 
THEAP99 said:
What is the point of this? Waste of money if you ask me. This money should've gone towards securing a steady flow of content stream for PlayStation years to come through the acquisitions of Kojima Productions, Bluepoint Studio, and expanding Japan Studio - not downsizing them.
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Why would Sony want to acquire a one man studio? You are also not taking into consideration that Kojima may not want to sell his company to anyone, as their independency allows them to work on several other stuff beside just videogames.

It's as if you people are not using your damn heads when it comes to doomposting about Sony and PlayStation.
 
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