Critical lesson Sony (hopefully) learnt this gen...

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Impulsivity said:

Sony should buy more quality studios that have a proven track record as they did with the Motorstorm studio. At the very least acquire 10-15% of the company as Nintendo did with Rare. The problem this gen has really been that Sony did very little while MS bribed everyone for things like timed exclusivity and DLed content. Through bribes MS has floated a 2nd rate console far longer then it would be allowed to persist normally.

Sony is far larger then any of the software makers like EA, Take Two and the rest, if they wanted to acquire any of them it wouldn't be hard. Sony has higher revenue in a month then EA has all year (and more net income in 3 weeks then EA has all year). Its not like Sony doesn't have huge amounts of ownership in other media types, they bought MGM recently, own huge catalogues of movies, TV shows and music, they've been a media company for a long time so its not like they don't have a framework to handle these acquisitions.

I think they're starting to realize that they need to fight harder for this generation (and future ones) and will step up the acquisition game. One acquisition that would make an incredible amount of sense is Square Enix. The market Capitalization is only around 2.3 billion dollars and they have a huge pull in key markets for the PS3 (and it would stop this making games for 360 crap). If any one company has been key to the rise of the PS and PS2, its Square.  With Square working on only PS3 games it wouldn't take long for A) sony to get a decent set of JRPGs going and B) Sony to make back a lot of its investment in added Japanese sales and game sales.

If Sony pulls that one off, I'll be the happiest gamer alive as long as the key people behind S-E don't leave