jarrod said:
ElGranCabeza said:
jarrod said:
ElGranCabeza said:
jarrod said:
ElGranCabeza said:
jarrod said:
Ninpanda said:
From these five, only Atlus and Level-5 are somewhat plausible, but I still strongly doubt, that they'll "acquire" either of these companies.
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Atlus is already owned by someone, and Level-5 would never sell out. Hell, the way they're going, Level-5's more likely to buy out SCE in the future. ;)
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Let's not be ridiculous here.
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Sony selling SCE off to Level-5 isn't any more ridiculous than Level-5 selling out to Sony. It'll only happen over Hino's dead body...
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It is way more ridiculous actually, and you know it.
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It really isn't tbh. The very idea that Sony could even buy L-5 is so outside the realm of reality, that anyone really thinking that's possible must know next to nothing about any of the companies involved.
And the whole thread is ridiculous, it has been since that batshit insane OP/poll. Talk about devs like Sucker Punch, United Front or thatgamecompany, not well established JP publishers who have been in videogames longer than Sony themselves.
Sony's NEVER bought out a JP developer actually...
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It really is. Sony has the means and assets to acquire L5 if it really wanted to, L5 does not have the funds to acquire SCEWWS unless they get major loans from major banks. SCEWWS is, without a doubt, worth more than L5. Of course neither scenario is likely to happen but your suggestion that L5 could buy SCEWWS is more ridiculous than the other suggested scenario by the OP.
And yes, it's true that Sony never bought a JP developer, hence why I said SCEJ doesn't get it as they either need to acquire one or developer more JP centric games for the JP audience. They don't seem to care though as the FW fiasco that was reported shows, SCEJ is just crap outside of Ueda and Yamauchi's teams.
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This isn't about means and assets. Microsoft actually tried to acquire Nintendo, and they certainly had the means to do so... L5 is 100% private and Hino is dedicated to being 100% independent. When we're already outside reality, I don't see much point in measuring. You said "let's not be ridiculous here", I said we're already too late. Sony buying out Capcom or L5 or SE? Ridiculous.
And if you want to get into it, I said "the way things are going". As in, L-5 is the fastest growing major publisher in Japan, and just opened an American branch, while SCEWWS has basically been in the dumps all gen sales wise. Who knows where it'll end, on both sides...
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Oh I know Hino wants to stay independent, but if Sony (or MS or Nintendo for that matter) offered him 1 trillion yen for L5 and he didn't take it, he'd be borderline stupid as that is way over the value of what his company is probably currently worth. But then again maybe he's like Zuckerberg and knows something we don't know like when Zuckerberg turned down MS offer for U$4 billion for his shares on facebook.
And I know the TS was ridiculous with his options, especially with the options for SCE to "buy" Konami, Capcom or SE. As I said in my original post, SP, RaD, QD, ClapHanz and such are much more likely candidates.
BTW, MS never tried to buy Nintendo, they said they were actually considering it. Big difference. They tried to buy Yahoo and facebook, but they never even got that close with Nintendo.
