You cannot purchase a PlayStation this Holiday season

[DonFerrari]

aTokenYeti said:

DonFerrari said:

Sure they could. And we have heard the MS infinite money talk since like 20 years ago and it never really translated in MS doing crazy stuff to buy market as the fanbase dream off. Just now they really started putting the money to buy these devs.

And not sure why you think that Sony increasing their dev count let's say from 20 to 30 is harder to manage than MS going from like 5 to 30.

Is buying Zenimax not “crazy stuff” anymore 

Nope. 6.5B on Zenimax makes much more sense than 2.5B on Mojang all those years back. It is a healthy studio, very big and with many valued IPs. It sure is a lot more than Sony paid on the studios it bought, but it isn't crazy nor impossible. And as showed to you Sony have committed to invest over 18B on growth both organic and inorganic and a lot of that money will likely go to the Playstation side (either directly to purchase studios or increase teams on what is already theirs, or indirectly like buying crunchyroll licenses or some media distributors to have access to IPs that can be made into games). MS may have a lot of money but they don't just throw away or burn it. If they made the purchase was because they thought (one can agree or not, and most likely be wrong on the analysis by not having all the data MS have access to and specialists for it) they would make the ROI attractive enough.

Seems like you live on the mid PS3 days of "Sony is doomed and will go bankrupt in the next 6 months". Let me give you a heads up, Sony is a healthy company now and a lot of it is because of Playstation so if increasing the number of studios (which they have been doing) is the best strategy for their growth it is what they will do.