I don't think they want to be bought out tbh. SE just seems to react very slowly to their own blunders, so they think that by cutting off their entire Western focus/division, that they'll stay afloat without any sort of full on buyout.
If I didn't want to be bought out completely, I'd focus on trimming the fat, but in SE case they seem to be wanting to trim off the entire Western IP type of "fat".
I still think it's a huge mistake for then to just cut off Western IP's. All they had to do was make what people actually wanted and not trying to goof shit up half the time (or worse, making them live services with loaded MT's).
They can totally go back to square one and focus on only Jap IP's they own, but Capcom and Sega seem to be doing fine with both Western and jap IP's under their belts, so SE cutting the fat from their body is still making them look stupid. If two other Jap publishers can do good on two fronts, there's virtually no reason why SE can't.
besides, even if there was a possibility that they'd be bought out, it certainly won't be from the likes of a Western company, since Japanese law prohibits a total buyout of Japanese companies from the West.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
