Hm, the LOTR angle makes me wonder if that is related to Warner Games sale, although Warner's whole price tag is too huge to justify with exclusive projects. OTOH, Leyou's LoTR contract could let Sony grab the most appetizing project, which may be ongoing considering Amazon probably wants to run it as long as GoT. Not that I'm into their older games, but Sony could see potential in the studio itself too, and combined with IP access could be attractive.

Well they always had close cooperation via Warframe and with DE, so I guess this could make sense. But I doubt they could get any access to LotR ip exclusivity in any way, shape or form.

Leyou also owns Splash Damage which developed Gears Tactics this year.

Splash Damage would be a nice grab, and a kick in the balls to xbox lmao.
Certain Affinity has bascially only made xbox/pc ms titles... how can you buy them out? their basically just a small step away from being Xbox 1st party.

I don't like this. I don't like these big console makers playing monopoly. Stop buying everything. Leave SNK alone FFS. Leave DE alone. If WB is for sale then only a 3rd party publisher should buy them.

This sales doesn't do anything for me, no devs or IPs I care about.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. I haven't played any of the games under Leyou's umbrella, but they have worked on some big projects, especially on the multiplayer side of things. At the very least it diversifies their portfolio.

I wonder what Sony IP would be suitable for the RTS genre. Killzone Tactics maybe lol?

I'm surprised by the scope of this. Its a huge investment, over $1.1 billion, easily the biggest Sony will have ever made in their gaming division.

I'm guessing this is about china, diversifying their portfolio, targeting more platforms, the revenue streams of (multiplayer, f2p, mobile) with the potential for growth. I wouldn't be surprised if these developers all continued to make cross platform games. I don't really see an aqusition like this impacting PlayStation or the PS5 much. I'm probably overlooking something extremely valuable for Sony here. I'm not quite sure.

I'd prefer if they were outbid and even a fraction of that investment went towards building a new developer or supporting smaller studios.

Edit: Now that I look more closely,  I was completely wrong in my first assessment. It's probably not the actual IP they currently have. 

Leyou is just a holdings company based in Hong Kong. Sony are looking at the buyout option that would give them development studios in the UK, US and Canada, over 800 employess all with experience working on multiplayer games (Halo, Cod, Gears, Left4Dead) Also, Leyou hold the licence for Transformers. (After Spiderman, I could see Sony making more big budget titles with IP that hold existing brand power) and the LOTR game with Amazon publishing.

It actually might be a pretty huge move for PS and definitely multiplayer oriented. 

I'm not sure how wise it is to buy a company based in Hong Kong right now...

Sure it could be done. But is it cost effective? I rather they buy better studios or even better open new studios and or increase studios number of teams.