| firebush03 said: Sony’s playing a dumb game acquiring studios. |
I think it's a little silly to boil this down to "Sony acquiring studios". Gaming is a relatively small part of Kadokawa.
Sony's been pushing pretty hard on expanding their manga, anime, etc.
All of this is likely at the Sony Group level, and they're not competing in the gaming space the same way that the company SIE is.
| firebush03 said: Their competition is literally Microsoft, who could purchase Nintendo if they really wanted to. |
I think it's a little silly to think that Microsoft would have acquisition retaliation plans. Particularly for a studio like From Software, which has tended to have more share on PS. And a studio that Sony has already put money into acquiring shares.
MS has spent like 20x what Sony has on gaming studio acquisitions. And it's clearly not paying out the way that they had hoped, they're under a lot more pressure to meet certain numbers. We're seeing a lot of their exclusives come to PlayStation and Switch.
