Sony looking to buy more studios

[The_Liquid_Laser]

KLXVER said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:
Frequent mergers and acquisitions are actually a sign of an industry in trouble. A healthy company can grow on its own merits, but a less healthy company can look like it is growing by merging with or acquiring another company. This is not a knock against Sony per se, as this sort of thing is happening all over the game industry. It is just to say the game industry has some important underlying issues which it needs to address or else it will be in big trouble in a generation or two.

All over the industry or mostly in the west?

It's happening with Japan too.  Nintendo bought Monolift Soft, Square-Enix bought Eidos, and Sega bought Atlus (for example).  A merger or acquisition can make a company's balance sheet look good, but it doesn't necessarily help in the long term.