Should Sony acquire another less expensive developer? Since Square is really in good terms with Sony?

[mjk45]

twintail said:

mjk45 said:

I just pity the dude who decides they need to buy EA unless they can get a discount on their reputation, come to think about it maybe MS got a Bobby Kotick discount.

EA is not necessarily a bad get. They have content geared towards online, which is something Sony is lacking in (yet their deals with start up studios seem to be to cover this)

I was being facetious, and thinking about EA's much touted reputation over the years for being the worst Videogame company in the world until recently anyway.

I would much prefer that this sort of aggressive buying stopped, but who knows there has to be a tipping point where Sony does a similar deal not in terms of outlay but in terms of numbers of IP's I expect that say that even capcom and square combined would cost considerably less.

People talk about Take Two, I feel like but I could be wrong, that Take Two really dont have the large portfolio of Ip's like EA and Activision and after GTA RRD Bioshock and NBA2k it falls away with Borderlands only being published and historically their roi and profits doesn't seem that great compared to the number of games that those Ip's sell.

My feeling is we may have to wait till after Spartacus is launched to get an indication into what direction Sony is heading.

Last edited by mjk45 - on 19 January 2022