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haxxiy on 05 November 2010
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scottie said:
Joelcool7 said:
scottie said:
Joelcool7 said:

Alright with the recent rumours about Apple looking to break into the industry with an aquisition of EA or Sony, this begs the question. Do we as gamers really want Apple to break into the industry, do we really want a fourth competitor? What can Apple add to the industry that would make it appealing to us gamers?

Do you want to see Apple join the console wars with their own console, or do you want them to just leave our industry the hell alone?


> looking to break into the industry

Fucking lol, they have broken into the industry. Their console has/is

1) Outselling the DS and PSP put together, infact, sales of iphone/ipod/ipad aprobably come close to rivaling all 5 of the other 7th gen console put together.

2) More games than any other console in history

3) Making one hell of a profit, on hardware, on gaming software, on non gaming software

 

> aquisition of EA or Sony

Apple total Assets  $47.5 billion

Sony total assets $137.694 billion

It would also be the most bizarre aquisition ever for many other reasons. EA is a sinking ship. Apple only ever buys small businesses, usuaully for a specific product/patent. Those rumours were the stupidest thign I've heard in a long time

 

What can Apple add to the industry that would make it appealing to us gamers?

A way for developers to make money, to offset the amount they hemorage on some other consoles

Cheap, high quality games 'Broadening the market - introducing non gamers to games, makes us ostracised less and we have more people to game with


Where did you get those numbers?

According to Apple insider Apple's assets are above 265.8 Billion USD, also Apple is said to have over 51-billion dollars in dispensable income. Nintendo I remember a few years ago had only 8-billion in dispensable income. Nintendo is a bigger company then Sony is financially.

So yes Apple is big enough to aquire Sony. If Sony actually has 137.7 Billion in assets then wow but that would still make it a possible target as assets aren't company value.


I got those specific numbers from a source which lead to a broken link

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=aapl

Suggests 53 billion total assets instead of 49, sue me :P

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=SNE&annual

126 bill for Sony (but that's 2008 data)

 

Apple could not buy Sony, and even if they could, they wouldn't. Apple has shown itself to be a very careful company, in terms of their financial decisions - much as Nintendo is. Buying a huge, but not overly profitable company like Sony is a very risky move. 

This has been discussed enough already. You don'y buy assets, you buy market shares and Apple has enough money to buy 100% of Sony's shares even in the case of a hostile takeover. See, their market cap is the second biggest in the world, losing only to Exxon Mobil, and Sony is currently ammounting to just above a tenth of it. 

Not that I think Apple will buy Sony - this is very unlikely. However it is still possible. Remember when AOL went to buy Time Warner, and Apple is in a much better position than AOL back there, and Sony in a worse position than Warner.