| naznatips said: To put this topic to rest: If 8% meant ANYTHING, then DQIX would not be on the Nintendo DS. Nor would the DS have 3X the development support of the PSP. |
@Soriku:
Sony = 8% of shares
8% of shares = 8% voting power
8% voting power = SOME influence
SOME influence > NO influence.
Also as I've stated before, 8% is plenty to get insider information from SquareEnix, meaning they know how SquareEnix makes their money and where that money is going. It's (Sony's 8%) certainly not enough to make any decisions but it's much more than what you're giving credit to.
As for the people saying Sony can buy out Level-5... It used to be correct during the Dark Cloud days, but not anymore. It's not so simple for Companies to just buy out 3rd party publishers, those publishers have to be willing to be on the selling block. The 3rd parties have to be willing to give up their insider shares (which are not availible to the public), otherwise the buyer can only have a percentage of the float. If things were so easy, Microsoft would have bought out many high profile 3rd parties already.
