Studios Sony Is To Acquire

[Manlytears]

the-pi-guy said:

Manlytears said:

It's something that goes beyond the gaming market. In the past it has been suggested that Sony is interested in buying Kadokawa entirely to strengthen its dominance in the production of anime content for streaming.

Buying Kadokawa and taking From Software is not impossible. On the other hand, it would create problems with Bandai Nanco, the current main publisher of From Software.

Publishers are generally on a per game basis. 

From Software has games published by SIE and they had Sekiro published by Activision.

Absolutely correct. I admit that this is just speculation on my part, but contracts for multiple games are also possible. good chances of a contract establishing Bandai Nanco as publisher of future Elden Ring games.

TheLegendaryBigBoss said:

Sony doesn't need to acquire a large publisher. They need more smaller developers to incorporate with PS Studios, so they have a roughly even manpower with Xbox. Although that will take a lot of studios considering just Blizzard alone has more employees than PS Studio as a whole.

Unfortunately, I must respectfully disagree with my colleague. Sony's main problem is getting successful Ip's and big talent, big names that guarantee an increase in sales.

Buying a large number of developers and simply making "more games" could end up putting Sony in a similar situation to the Embracer group, releasing games with low commercial and critical success. Furthermore, I do not believe that the solution of increasing productivity of existing PlayStation Studios by simply "buying small studios" to incorporate as support work for larger studios is sufficient.

It's a sad thing, and absolutely bad for the industry, but the best thing for Sony would be to buy famous developers who already have strong Ip's (not necessarily publishers) and close deals to guarantee quality exclusives for Playstation.

Buying small developers, without Ip's or with small Ip's, is something that Sony has done for almost 30 years in the market. Cultivating talent over the years is something that has brought great results for Playstation and the industry. Unfortunately, Microsoft bought a large part of the most successful IP's on the market, so the space to cultivate talent over the years has drastically decreased. Sony will probably need to respond in a similar way, buying some IP's and developers with established strength in the market. In my humble opinion, Sony should do this quickly, in the next 4 years, while it is the market leader, even if this generates debt and affects the Playstation's profitability.

This whole situation is horrible. No matter who Sony buys, it won't be a move to enrich the market and create something new. it will be a reaction to hurt Microsoft and defend the position that Playstation has in the market. Consumers are losing out.

Last edited by Manlytears - on 27 October 2023