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Goddbless on 04 March 2008

The first company that came to my mind was Bungie.



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superjon2 on 04 March 2008

I think Sega's a little too big a fish to swallow...they are after all the second largest game maker in Japan after Nintendo, what, with a swiftly growing home division (Gone from No 14 to No 6 3rd party in 3 years), a near monopoly on the arcade market (60-70% in 2006), a healthy chunk of the Panchinko market, toys, anime and so on, unless Sony was really willing to spend some serious money, it wouldn't happen.



kingofwale on 04 March 2008

God I don't want Sega, I rather Sony go after smaller developers with talent other than with IPs. Ready at Dawn and/or Infinity Ward would be my first pick.



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
Munkeh111 on 04 March 2008

I would like Ready at Dawn, and I think they are working on some PSP stuff
If I remember right, their last acquisition was BigBig who did Pursuit Force



makingmusic476 on 04 March 2008

I'm going with either Take 2, or else buying R* directly from Take 2 (as has been rumored for years).

Or R* could be pulling a Bungie like rumored a few weeks ago, and Sony is buying them directly.

However, the part about Phil's departure setting the tone for the acquisition almost implies that it would be Infogames, but I don't see the point in buying that company, nor do I see Phil returning to Sony in any way anytime soon.

I guess they're buying a big studio to make up for the loss of Phil? The I don't see how that would help, exactly. ^^

Edit:  About Ready at Dawn, sure it would be a good move, but they're not exactly "big", and they haven't really done anything for anybody else but Sony aside from the Okami Wii port.  They practically exclusive as it is.



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makingmusic476 on 04 March 2008
royalcaribcruiser123 said:
Here who I would like to see Sony make a run for. I know some of them could be considered dreams but I would like Sony to own them.

1) Level 5
2) Media.Vision
3) Gust
4) Idea Factory
5) Falcom
6) NIS
7) Sega

Level 5 would be awesome, but I don't think SE would let them get away.  Unless Sony makes a deal to have SE publish all DQ games on Sony platforms, keeping Level 5 the developers, but that seems unlikely.



kingofwale on 04 March 2008

Take 2 probably will tell Sony to go "consummate" itself, Just like it told EA.

In my dream, Sony should just buy SquareEnix. ;)



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
4D Gamer III on 04 March 2008

Given Sony's financial status this would have to be a move of desperation.



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1: Stop making shooters. Please. You're not Valve or Free Radical.
2: Stop trying to force photo-realism down my throat until you can get out of the uncanny valley. Work on style and presentation instead of just pixels and bloom.
3: Try something weird and new, and hope we like it.

You'll cut costs way more than you cut revenue, and thus increase profit.
Griffin on 04 March 2008
4D Gamer III said:
Given Sony's financial status this would have to be a move of desperation.

 How is buying a company a move of desperation, and Sony made more money then Nintendo last quater.



kingofwale on 04 March 2008
4D Gamer III said:
Given Sony's financial status this would have to be a move of desperation.
 

 Apparently selling something is a sign of desperation, buying something is also one now.

 Sorry Sony, you are screwed regardless. Better give up now.
 



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)