Rumor: Sony to acquire Kadokawa Corporation

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method114 said:

Trentonater said:

because it's not playstation buying from software. it's sony group buying a multimedia company that happens to be their parent company. it's very unlikely they would end up under playstation instead of staying under kadokawa.

I don't see why it's very unlikely. They literally have a whole gaming division but they are going to let Kadokawa continue to act independently instead of moving it in house to their own division? What would be the incentive to do that? Especially after the disaster that happened with them letting Bungie do exactly what you're suggesting.

it would require a huge amount of restructuring in the first place when there's no chance at all of Kadokawa being placed under playstation. Besides being parent to some game developers kadokawa doesn't operate in the same spaces as playstation. And playstation is fully it's own thing with the same way sony music and sony pictures are. They make their own acquisitions to the point that playstation bought Audeze and became a direct competitor to Sony Electronics in the audio space.