| aTokenYeti said: The level of risk you incur with a stock based transaction is significantly higher than a cash deal, and leave Sony as a whole more vulnerable to fluctuating market conditions. To acquire a publisher via a stock or debt transaction when so many other Sony ventures require capital would not be ideal for Sony leadership and would frankly be an option of last resort |
Its not ideal, but Microsoft just spent nearly 70B on Activision Blizzard, why wouldn't Sony prioritize the Playstation division now? Every other division but Sony Interactive has got a major investment in the last couple of years:
Sony Financial Holdings (3.7B)
Sony Music EMI acquisition (2.3B)
SonyZee merger (1.6B)
Crunchyroll (1B+)
Sony even invested 9B+ towards their image sensors over the course of three years. Also, stock based transactions isn't the only method Sony has when it comes to acquisitions, its just an example of what they could leverage for an acquisition, as AMD & Take Two have demonstrated.
