Please explain to me what irony have in saying the business isn't a very soundy decision, as much as MS putting 2.5B in a game that didn't had assured return of that in profit.

You’re making comments about how little others know about business but then making your own comments proving you don’t know much yourself. I mean look at that last part there you just said about Minecraft, “didn’t had assured return of that in profit”. MS didn’t buy Mojang expecting a quick return of that 2.5B investment. They bought Mojang because they figured Minecraft would make them more money than that 2.5B would collect sitting in a bank earning interest.

Just goes to show the gargantuan difference in funds we’re talking about between the two companies. Sony has a lot less to spend, and a much larger focus on video games to the company as a whole, thus anything they buy must make a much bigger positive impact than MS buying Mojang. Plus the purchase price would be four times as much, minimum. 

Not a very smart comparison if you know a lot about business, which I certainly am not claiming that I do, but when you say some people here know “0” about it, that implies you do know a bit yourself.

So you would want Sony to spend almost half there Cash on hand for a Publisher/Developers that has the promise of making $6b in however long GTAV has been on the market for? (6 years) Small detail, that $6b is made from GTAV selling over 90m copies, and sorry to say that's not all on Sony's platform.
Google "GTA 5 has now sold over 90 million copies and generated over $6 billion in revenue since its initial release."

What's in it for Take-Two exactly here? With MS investing heavily in Xbox and its eco-system and PC and Nintendo's Switch being the hottest device on the market, you think Take Two don't see the possible venue on the other platforms? They make a fortune selling there games on everything not just 1 platform. So not only will Sony waste almost half there Cash on hand in just there gaming division, the income will be a lot less than what Take Two is making now so it will probably take 10 years for Sony to make there money back on Take Two's purchase.

Also Take-Two wont have to share there profits on there games.

So basically I am just asking the question here, What's in it for Take-Two?

If they were brought out the negatives are..

They have to cross there fingers that Sony's next platform is incredibly successful
The Income they make gets more divided
They limit there games to 1 or 2 platforms
They could possibly lose development freedom

Well for starters MS probably spend just as much money in there gaming devision than Sony. MS invest in what they believe they will make back, thats why they are where they are in the food chain.

How many companies have tried making a GTA game? Its a big investment and there isnt a need to because we have a company already doing it. Any company can make a GTA game, weather it be good is another story but a big investment in the genre will create something atleast half decent and who knows, might be better. If GTA was to be locked away to one plastic box than expect a new openworld IP that the competitors will invest in.

Thats just the way the market works.

Keep in mind that console net sales of $5.33bn probably doesn't include the expenses to make the hardware as RnD for console projects have been near the $3bn mark on the low side. So if you subtract take that away from the net sale you will notice it doesn't leave you with much. And that's if the PS4 cost $3bn to make, could be 4 or 5. The PS3 was around the 5bn to 6bn mark as a guide line.

EDITED - And just to add to the poster below, Anyone can make a clone game, If a company like MS want to spend money to make a GTA/RDR clone they very well can. They haven't and they don't plan to as we know. But any company can do it with the right amount of money behind the project. Lets not kid ourselves and think that because MS are richer as a whole equals they spend more on developing games and that there games are mediocre = MS money means nothing. Money means something when a company actually spends it. MS don't or haven't invested major in there 1st party departments for quite some time now and the games that came out are normally around the business average to make. If Sony brought Take-Two for $10bn, MS will spend $100m and make there own GTA game and promote the crap out of it which will put pressure on the $10bn business decision that would have made. Weather a clone will be better than GTA will be assumed as no body will know until it actually happens. So lets not talk about current games to future games. At one stage Sony couldn't make great games either or were a dime a dozen. Things change.

Hardware isn't supposed to be a money maker. That's the way it's always been in the console industry. You also have to take inflation into account when your talking about PS3 and PS4 cost to design and manufacture.

GTA isn't the only thing that comes with that $10 bil. There's 20+ games that come with that deal. It's estimated that GTAV cost around $250 mil from start to finish. RDR2 is estimated to be between $250 mil and $500 mil. To make 20 similar AAA games from scratch, with the same input costs to compete, would cost at least $5 bil, not to mention all the work to make that happen, which would be A LOT. Meanwhile, PS would be able to sit back and let T2 bring in big money, while MS will be doing everything possible to scrape what they can away from those already established franchises. If GTA6 costs $500 mil, then MS would probably have to spend $750 mil just to stand a chance in competing with it, especially in marketing. You also have to consider, how much MS has been making off T2 titles, on XB and PC, and all of that will be gone if SNY were to make them exclusive to the PS brand.

Of course Hardware isnt meant to make the bulk of the money. So the chart is not exactly a good example here. RnD eats up alot of the net sales profits. Its why MS care more about the software side of things.

Sure Sony gains access to 20 other games,  however alot of them are not industry leading games and wont be making its money back on the purchase. If games like GTA get locked behind a paywall than why cant MS invest in there own GTA? It will cost 1/10 of the price and they wont have the burden of owning a big studio to do so, also the market will welcome it as its the only way to play a GTA game if they game on other platforms so T2 will be opening up there own competition except this time it will be competing with a game thats on majority of platforms. Its Possible.

Also owning a buisness isnt as easy as purchasing and sitting back. There is alot more involved plus a bunch more staff to pay and manage. It could work but it can also be a huge waste of cash leaving Sony weaker against competitors like Samsung. 

Hardware was 1/5th of the chart. The bulk of the conversation and the main point is about software. Exclusive software means nothing if gamers don't have your hardware though.

Some of the games are not near the same level as GTA, but that doesn't mean they won't make their money back on the purchase. It also means those lesser games don't cost T2 that much to make either then, unless PS were to give them bigger budgets. The fact they will get extra marketing because they would be a PS exclusive is something they may not have had before, and marketing means a lot in today's world, while past budgets and sales back that up. You think just tasking a random studio that's available with making a GTA knockoff with 1/10th the budget will be able to produce something that compete's on a level that's worth worrying about for PS? Look at what it took some of the PS first party studios that are well established to create worthwhile games that sold millions, and they didn't have much competition either in certain genres. Now add GTA as your competitor and you'd be lucky to sell a couple million copies, vs how many tens of millions of GTA copies? Lets assume MS does this, and by the 3rd iteration in the series they've caught up to GTA. By then T2 has been paid off already anyway, and other games that MS could have made, weren't, because of the new GTA knockoff focus. That likely means there were other PS games that didn't receive XB competition and made tonnes of money. PS doesn't care if GTA makes the money or is a distraction, as long as the money comes in one way or another.

Is any or all of it possible? Sure, but I'd have to say while PS purchasing T2 is unlikely, MS trying to directly compete with those big franchises is far more unlikely, and MS making a copycat and coming anywhere near to GTA success in general, if ever, is highly unlikely. SNY obviously would need to reorganize T2 and probably add some positions and remove others. When you spend billions of dollars acquiring a company, you don't do so because your bored and need something to do quickly. SNY will have planned everything out as much as possible and will be ready to execute asap, once the deal was final, baring a few exceptions along the way.