| aTokenYeti said: Sony has been purchasing mostly support studios and porting houses, which is in line with my previous statement that they are prioritizing a smaller number of big projects on long development cycles. If they were making a ply at volume, the character of the studios they would be acquiring would be different: more housemarque, less bluepoint, nixxes, and firesprite I would also not underestimate just how expensive film and music acquisitions can be |
Bluepoint & Firesprite are far from support studios. Based on job listings, Firesprite has over 250+ employees with multiple projects in the works, while Bluepoint have been doing complete remakes and are confirmed to be working on "original content."
Music related acquisitions are not expensive at all, especially for a massive corporation like Sony, who acquired EMI back in 2018 for 3B+, which is a high end purchase in that industry. The only film/television related acquisition that would be a massive undertaking for Sony would be ViacomCBS & that is an unrealistic target for midterm acquisitions. Even the recent Sony Pictures/Zee Entertainment merger had a 1.6B+ investment & this is considered a major play for an emerging market like India.
What Sony is saying, and what they are doing, point to Playstation getting a bulk of that 18.4B.
Last edited by PotentHerbs - on 21 December 2021
