Topher
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Yeah, I agree with you. I was going to put something sarcastic but never finished my thought.
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Sony to ready to buy take two (if you believe a recent report)
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Yeah, I agree with you. I was going to put something sarcastic but never finished my thought.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
jeez, worse than Jezz.
begotten
Member
You can't get any worse than Jez and I actually feel bad for him.
He's clearly perennially miserable and depressed on the inside all because of his precious Xbox - looks 16 but has a neckbeard of pubes trying to match him to his actual age.
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Vestal
Junior Member
You answered your own question.. They can't afford it.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
If you believe a recent "report"
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Microsoft earns around 70 billion a year, Sony around 10.
Tell me again why Microsoft couldn't afford it?
Sony doesn't have 10 bill a year to buy. There's workers salary, production cost etc. on their hardware as consoles, TV etc.
Cutting that from both Microsoft and Sony, then Microsoft still has alot more money than sony.
Microsoft have already earned the money back for what they want to pay for Activision Blizzard.
How can Sony afford Take 2 just because Microsoft want to buy Activision Blizzard?
It's like saying the rich guy just bought a lamborghini, then he can't afford a ferrari which means I can just buy it.
Doesnt make sense.
Besides that, Activision Blizzard wants to be bought, Take 2 doesn't atm.
Microsoft didn't walk up to them and said we want to buy your company, sell it.
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DeepEnigma
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EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Sony buying 2K isn’t a coincidence.
Loxus
Member
Like I said, it's just speculation.
I checked other Companies and none of them lose $30b+ worth of Assets in one go.
Not to mention, Sony has no prior history of Assets declining that much in the pass 9 years. I mean, what the hell could Sony possibly be investing in that's worth that much? Unless it's an error.
CuteFaceJay
Member
Would Zelnick & co even do that with GTA 6 in the works and potential for major profits? You have to ask yourself would those cut throat money men really want to share profits with Sony?
The geezer spreading this info must be smoking skittles or something right?
The geezer spreading this info must be smoking skittles or something right?
Torrent of Pork
Member
Plodding chores of a 3rd person game more interested in being artsy than fun. Sony doesn't need any help in that department.
Topher
Member
About that....
Sony Has $10 Billion Left in Its Acquisitions Fund - news.law
Last week, Sony revealed its intention to purchase Bungie for $3.6 billion dollars. Following the announcement, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan revealed that Sony isn't finished, and plans to acquire more companies in the near future. According to numbers shared by TweakTown, Sony previously allocated...
news.law
Not that it matters since this is a bullshit rumor
Coulomb_Barrier
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HundredThousandTrillion
Member
You're conflating buying vs being able to afford.
If Sony ever seriously tried to buy TakeTwo they'd be over leveraged even at market price. So it's doubtful they'd be able to pay any sort of premium to make it worth it.
I guarantee that Tencent or some big money Private Equity vulture would come swooping in and take all that sweet sweet IP for themselves via a hostile takeover.
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HeisenbergFX4
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skit_data
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This guy has been doing this for quite a while, I’ve seen tweets from him for at least half a year or so. At least I think he’s doing it ironically, or I rather I really hope he does because otherwise he’s doing it for attention which is quite sad.
Surprised this thread is still going, you only need a few minutes of looking through hos tweets to figure out he’s pretty much just throwing stuff on the wall to see what sticks. Completely baseless.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
sony is worth 100 billion. not saying it's a drop in the bucket like 69 billion is for MS but 21 billion doesn't even remove half of their market cap. the profit they'd make from GTA6 being exclusive to PS would get them that money back in less than 2 years
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TheRedRiders
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Lmao
HundredThousandTrillion
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Exclusive: Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say
Microsoft Corp is expected to secure EU antitrust approval for its $69 billion acquisition of Activision with its offer of licensing deals to rivals, three people familiar with the matter said, helping it to clear a major hurdle.
He's right, on this count at least. With Microsoft clearing EU regulators it's hard to see the FTC or the UK doing anything different. EU regulators are currently forcing Apple to change their entire roadmap and business models. They don't mess around.
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IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Take Two would cost north of $25 billion.
That's far more than Sony is ever going to pay for a company.
That's far more than Sony is ever going to pay for a company.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
That's the European Union regulator.Exclusive: Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say
Microsoft Corp is expected to secure EU antitrust approval for its $69 billion acquisition of Activision with its offer of licensing deals to rivals, three people familiar with the matter said, helping it to clear a major hurdle.www.reuters.com
He's right, on this count at least. With Microsoft clearing EU regulators it's hard to see the FTC or the UK doing anything different. EU regulators are currently forcing Apple to change their entire roadmap and business models. They don't mess around.
The UK regulator, the CMA, is the problem.
They seem dead set on blocking the merger.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Agreed.
It doesn't fit their style of acquisitions. Bungie was outside the norm, but, it fit in with their need for experienced GaaS machines. They normally target smaller as in developers they've had a long history, strengthening their WWS in key areas.
Not "brute force" buying.
Jimmyisback
Member
Why doesn't Sony just buy Microsoft? On a serious note this copium is getting out of hand. No way is this deal realistic or believable.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
You didn't bust any bubble trust me and things run deeper than posted on some website
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Publish your insider knowledge with credible source.
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
This would use thier entire cash reserve, the 100 million isn't liquid captial.......
HeisenbergFX4
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Thirty7ven
Sony make cringe trainers.
The only companies Sony should seriously consider are Capcom, SE, From Software and Ubisoft.
Throughout the next decade MS will corner the market for Sony, by taking away some big IP from PlayStation ecosystem and if they don’t go out there and start securing their ecosystem I fully expect thing to start getting difficult for them.
Throughout the next decade MS will corner the market for Sony, by taking away some big IP from PlayStation ecosystem and if they don’t go out there and start securing their ecosystem I fully expect thing to start getting difficult for them.
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Techno_Inked
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Even though I think Take Two would be a good get for Sony, I feel that money can be better spent on Capcom and From Software. The ultimate dream would be Sony acquiring Game Science. As the Black Myth: Wukong game really has a PlayStation feel to it.
But none of these are likely to happen. Capcom is strategically the best deal for Sony and the only option that is even remotely likely to happen imo.
Yet the most likely scenario is that Sony keeps building partnerships with smaller studios and after having proven themselves, Sony shuffles its own people around from their own first party studios in the effort of trying to create new studios.
This way the studios can stay creative, are maluable enough to adopt PlayStation's way of working as well as keeping their own employees from their own first party studios happy by providing them the chance to take on new roles and challenges with new projects and ideas. And all this happens with the fraction of the money and risk needed to buy Take Two. It also gives Sony strategic office placements around the globe and teaches original Sony employees new ways of thinking and creating. Basically combining the best skills of these smaller companies with Sony's own skillset. Which in turn will make the overall company more innovative and provides the company an open mindset for creating more efficient pipelines while broadening their network.
But none of these are likely to happen. Capcom is strategically the best deal for Sony and the only option that is even remotely likely to happen imo.
Yet the most likely scenario is that Sony keeps building partnerships with smaller studios and after having proven themselves, Sony shuffles its own people around from their own first party studios in the effort of trying to create new studios.
This way the studios can stay creative, are maluable enough to adopt PlayStation's way of working as well as keeping their own employees from their own first party studios happy by providing them the chance to take on new roles and challenges with new projects and ideas. And all this happens with the fraction of the money and risk needed to buy Take Two. It also gives Sony strategic office placements around the globe and teaches original Sony employees new ways of thinking and creating. Basically combining the best skills of these smaller companies with Sony's own skillset. Which in turn will make the overall company more innovative and provides the company an open mindset for creating more efficient pipelines while broadening their network.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
About Ubisoft... that's such a messy company that there's not even a point in doing so. There's a reason even them want to sell at this point.
I hope Sony never considers that.
Capcom and SE? For sure. And if the Activision acquisition happens i'm sure we'll see something like that happening.
Jim has recently said they are interested in acquiring IPs...and that's something they never said before a few months ago. Everything they have acquired so far (besides Bungie) are companies that barely have any IPs. They have acquired mostly talent and studios that already worked for them, so for them sayign they are looking into acquiring IPs, their closest partners are always going to be the first choices. Square and Capcom are options.
About the OP. When are people ever going to learn that we never hear about theses acquisitions before happening? Activision came out of nowhere, same for Bungie and Bethesda. Same for Insomniac, etc...
El Pistolero
Member
Square would be considerd, but it is such a bloated company...Though their IPs could be useful in feeding the Sony animes machine. I still maintain that Capcom would be better from a pure video games angle; The caveat being that the latter be interested in a buyer in the first place! The better strategy, imo, is for Sony to target Capcom provided that the aforementioned condition is met, and limit themselves to strategically investing in both the main FF team, and the FF MMO developers within Square. Although, in all fairness, an even better approach would consist of some heavy lobbying to prevent MS from picking up a major japanese publisher! The acquisitions that would make sense to me are as follows:
1. CD Project Red
2. A couple of newly formed WRPG studios.
3. Rocksteady
4. Remedy
5. Deviation Games
6. Arrowhead
7. Probably Monsters
8. Unseen Studios
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AtomicStarving
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StealthGoblin
Member
When have Sony bought a multiplat IP and made it exclusive?
Microsoft, however, have and are.
The big litmus test was Bungie they’ve made very public gestures about them being independent and multiplat.
As per your comment about Sony and Take 2, I know people who work at both companies in the U.K. and they’ve never had a bad word to say about each other. On the contrary, working relations between the two are strong. Their CEOs are aligned in many, many ways.
ZoukGalaxy
Member
Yes.
BootsLoader
Member
My uncle also told me about this rumor.
Moses85
Member
Do you think take two wants to be purchased?
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Does Sony actually buy huge publishers? I definitely have my doubts about Sony buying Take Two for the obvious reasons. Guess we’ll see.
I dont know why they couldnt.... using Take 2 as an example... they bought Xanga for for almost 13 billion dollars.....and take 2 market cap today is just south of 20 Billion....that was a massive purchase by them from my understanding although i could be wrong. i dont think they would/will though nor is take 2 prob looking to be sold. The ONLY... ONLY... reason ABK was even for sale, is because of horrendous mismanagement and horrible PR and the board bailed out to get their huge paydays from MS, it wasnt because they were in dire straights financially.
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Gameplay Gods Bless
Member
Didn't Take 2 just make the previously biggest aquisition in gaming for Zynga? I don't think Sony can afford them.
Eddie-Griffin
Cancer the womens baby so we can pregnant the panda, we are looking for igloos tonight Are you sexy?
Take-Two has been in the news for money mismanagement constantly, including in 2021. It's not about what they take in, it's how the company is run.
John Wick
Member
Are you on crack? Who mentioned MS couldn't afford Take 2? C'mon post it here?
Do you really think MS are going to be allowed to buy Take 2 after buying ABK? They are already struggling hard to get the deal done and you think just because MS have got cash they will waltz in and buy Take 2?
Sony can put a deal together to buy Take 2 easily.