If someone bought PlayStation Brand who would you want it to be?

[Lafiel]

I think it makes very little sense for Nintendo or MS to pick up Playstation, as both of these already have similarly strong brands in the video game console business. They would ofcourse be very interested in hiring former Sony 1st party devs, but I doubt it's worthwhile to them to spent much on the Playstation brand, the franchise catalogue or the dev studios.

Ms might go for it anyway (as their pockets are deep enough) to acquire the few franchise that have shown great popularity, like Uncharted, Gran Turismo, Killzone or The Last of Us, but I think they might rather wait until these are sold/auctioned off individually.

As for Apple, Google, Samsung or LG, well, those could be interested in the franchises and a Playstation Now-esque service (for their Smartphones and/or TVs), but I don't see them joining the console market and game development is a rather uninteresting business especially for Apple and Google, due to it's high risk/low reward kind of nature with only very few smash hits, that reach the kind of ROI these corps are used to.

In my opinion the most likely corps to release new playstation consoles and probably the highest bidders for the Playstation business as a whole could be the chinese technology corps, like Lenovo, Huawei or Tencent (or maybe even the smaller ones, as several have surprisingly deep pockets, but lack a recognisable brand in the west).