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Manlytears on 31 October 2023
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gtotheunit91 said:
Manlytears said:

True, GTA VI would be multiplatform, but not GTA VII or RDR 3 or other future games. Just like COD is guaranteed multi. for 10 years, Sony or MS would only need to make similar deal for limited time.

Imho, Take Two would be enough to keep Sony as the market leader.

You work for the CMA or something? Yeah man, we gotta keep Sony as the market leader at all costs!

Lol fr though, what do we even consider as the market leader now? Nintendo by far sells the most consoles and supposedly is the most profitable, but the smallest in revenue. Sony has the most revenue, but smaller profit margins. Microsoft by far sells the least amount of consoles, but bets heavily on revenue and acceptable profit margins. 

So do we go by most consoles sold or purely by revenue to be considered the market leader? 

I only spoke from Sony's point of view and their need to respond to the acquisitions of Zenimax and ABK. Yes, I believe that Take two would be enough to protect Sony's market position.

Also, I agree with another post of yours in which you say that this acquisition is outside of Sony's reality. They would have to take out a large loan to make this move, and we are not in the right economic times for that.

Regarding market leadership, it is normally accepted that this is linked to revenue. In this regard, Playstation is currently ahead of Nintendo and Xbox. It is also considered that Nintendo serves a different market niche, which makes sense, and aligns with the "blue ocean" philosophy.


BraLoD said:

Hopefully none.

But it would in fact be funny if Sony got Take Two and would own GTA just to see the amount of flip flop opinions that now it's a really bad thing.

Not worth it just for the laughs, but it would certainly be quite funny.

This is probably the only good part in the whole sad and terrible trend of buying big publishers and making multiplatform exclusives.
It would be hilarious to see the hypocrisy and nonsense speeches of people who defended the purchase of ABK but react negatively to a similar move by Sony.

I mean, there are people who have the courage and nerve to compare the purchases of ABK and Zenimax with purchases that Sony made of small studios in the 2000s. IMHO, this type of narrative that some use is just absurd, but at least they produce good laughs.

Last edited by Manlytears - on 31 October 2023