If Sony Goes Belly up Who Would be the Safest Pair of Hands for the Playstation Brand?

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Euphoria14 on 15 October 2014

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Not sure if it was mentioned yet, but if MS happened to buy PlayStation why would they kill the brand? The PlayStation brand is much stronger than the XBox brand.

Wouldn't it make more sense to ditch the XBox brand and move forward with the PlayStation brand while having the MS IPs to go along with it?

Of course. Who said they would kill after purchasing?

Last sentence in the OP.

"Nintendo and MS would kill the brand and just buy it to absorb the first party studios."

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MoHasanie on 15 October 2014

Euphoria14 said:
Not sure if it was mentioned yet, but if MS happened to buy PlayStation why would they kill the brand? The PlayStation brand is much stronger than the XBox brand.

Wouldn't it make more sense to ditch the XBox brand and move forward with the PlayStation brand while having the MS IPs to go along with it?

Yeah they would probably just keep the PS brand. Or maybe they might keep Xbox as the name of the online service.

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bubblegamer on 15 October 2014

Euphoria14 said:

bubblegamer said:

Euphoria14 said:
Not sure if it was mentioned yet, but if MS happened to buy PlayStation why would they kill the brand? The PlayStation brand is much stronger than the XBox brand.

Wouldn't it make more sense to ditch the XBox brand and move forward with the PlayStation brand while having the MS IPs to go along with it?

Of course. Who said they would kill after purchasing?

Last sentence in the OP.

"Nintendo and MS would kill the brand and just buy it to absorb the first party studios."

lol that would be utterly stupid. No one with a business would buy a brand to kill it off! LMAO

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joeorc on 15 October 2014

AND THE A:

Would Be Sony of course Because SCE LLC buys its own stock back!

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Normchacho on 15 October 2014

I can think of three companies I certainly don't want picking it up. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon.

I fear Apple and Amazon would try to hard to mesh it with the rest of there services and products and could ruin it. I know I certainly don't want an IOS based Playstation or a PS Kindle

Microsoft already has a gaming division and would likely be foolish enough to merg Xbox and PS under the Xbox name. On top of that the PS first party studios work as well as they do because of how much freedom they are given, something MS is notorious for not giving.

Finally, They'd have competing franchise under the same banner. Namely Forza and GT and I also think they'd be foolish enough to keep Forza over GT.

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