CNET.com - "Why Microsoft Should Aquire Sony's Gaming Division"

[Pristine20]

NJ5 said:

Pristine20 said:

NJ5 said:

So here are the numbers:

Nintendo is worth $67 billion.
Sony (as a whole) is worth around $40 billion.

And for reference:

Google - $148 billion
Microsoft - $239 billion

Microsoft probably has enough cash-on-hand to make a cash-only purchase of SCE... If they did a cash+stock purchase, they wouldn't have to break a sweat to buy it. Of course, they'd have to get regulatory approval, which shouldn't be a huge problem right now as Nintendo is owning both of them.

This is of course academic without the support of Sony's investors, which is probably one of the reasons why Sony is now very careful with their PS3 strategy. We don't need to assume something as dramatic as a Microsoft-buyout, their shareholders could simply force them to sell off some assets (some studios for example).

 

Its not that simple. Sony's asset value>>>>>>Nintendo.

 Nintendo seems worth more currently because they're very profitable. Why do you think forbes ranks Sony way higher than nintendo?

Those are the market cap values. Market capitalization includes asset value (or at least what the market thinks the assets are worth).

In any case, that doesn't matter. We're talking about Microsoft buying SCE here, not the whole of Sony.

 

 

 That may be the key statement, if not why is HSBC ranked #1. Won't M$ be worth more than them? HSBC's "market value" is $180.81bln but their asset value is $2348.98 bln. The market value just seems to represent the worth of investing in the company at present not necessarily how much the company would cost because that would mean HSBC would cost less than M$.