Are you adjusting your position? Are you now convinced that Sony doesn't need to put their playstation OS on TVs and Car Stereos if they buy Take Two instead?

You're contradicting yourself man. People have told you repeatedly there is more than one path to success for Sony, yet time and time and time again you throw you arms up every time they make it abundantly clear they're not proceeding on the path you want them to take, like a friggin Nostradamus, saying repeatedly that Sony is doomed if they don't do what you wish they would  - until apparently right now.

Adding GTA and RDR as exclusives to their platform isn't going to stop Google from eating Sony's lunch on game streaming options, which you're just convinced is the future - is it? Yet here you are acting like this will just sort out everything, when in reality, if what you believe is true on the whole hardware/OS thing, how is buying Take Two going to stop that? Wouldn't that at best just delay the inevitable downward spiral you're convinced Sony is on?

SONY has around $25-27billion in cash and are making $5billion per year

They can easily afford them

Sony made $5billion in Net Income which is more important than Operating Income.They made $7billion in Operating income.

I'm not talking about revenue.Sony doesn't have so low of revenue.They had $76billion of revenue last year.

Also you don't have to be an accountant at Sony.Sony is a public company and has to disclose all its financial data.

Who are the actual people in charge of T2 who would have to make this decision?

I'm only adjusting my position on exclusives, in theory, based on this improbable rumor.

It does not change my stance on them needing to expand their ecosystem. I even said in the post you quoted, that this is the kind of thing they need to expand their OS and Network to a larger market.

I'm only saying their is more than one path to success in a world were Sony is willing to buy out major exclusives such as GTA and RD. That is something that would never have crossed most peoples mind, and is still unbelievable even with this rumor floating around. So, yes, Sony could buy their way to success, or they can earn their way to success. That is what I said above, but I wasn't direct about it, now you should understand what I meant before.

I do believe streaming is going to be a big part of gaming in the future, but so is VR, AR, and traditional gaming via both home and mobile device. Nothing can be ignored by any company serious about Hardware, Software, and Services.

Where did I say that this would sort everything out, and stop Google? All I am saying is this would give Sony a good start to the streaming game. I didn't say after this Sony can retire, and let PlayStation dominate for the rest of time. The war never ends.

You are spot on with the end though. Yes, I believe this would only be a stop gap fix. Buying Take Two would allow them continue momentum/growth, but only short term. If they don't expand the ecosystem, they will fail, it is only a matter of time. That is a constant, you have to grow or you die.

Considering it looks very likely that we will get 1 Uncharted, 1 The Last of Us, 1 God of War, 1 Killzone, 1 Horizon, 1 Bloodborne, 1 Infamous, 1 Days Gone, and 1 Gran Turismo on PS4, I think Sony is perfectly fine with 1 GTA, 1 Boarderlands, and 1 Red Dead on PS5.

It would be one GTA or one Red Dead not one of each of this gen was any indication and with the amount of money they’d need to pay I don’t doubt that they’d want a big increase in production from companies like Rockstar and Gearbox. Also Bloodborne is not even a Sony game. Some of those franchises you listed are from the same developer... good luck getting that output from some of the Take Two teams. Youd be getting Uncharted OR LoU. Killzone OR Horizon. Infamous OR Ghosts.

Any of those four companies buying TT would be bad for the dev teams, they’d all want more content sooner.

So before this improbable rumor, you didn't think that adding some of the most popular games in the world as exclusives would be a good thing? What position did this rumor change, exactly?

... and now you think that adding several third party studios into their first party stable would... "expand their OS and network to a larger market"? How, exactly? Have you seen how many PS4s Sony has sold? Do you see how games like Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption II sell on playstation platforms already? How does this expand Sony's market? Sony's market already has access to these games, and will for the foreseeable future. Anyone that is interested in the games Take Two puts out already can buy a Playstation 4 and play them all.

Sony has a history of security major third party titles as exclusives (Final Fantasy VII says hello) how would this be unexpected for Sony to do something they have done since they entered the market as a console manufacturer? Why wouldn't something like this cross people's minds? The only reason people think it sounds a bit ridiculous is because of Take Two's success over recent years. Up until GTA V came out and people got wind of GTA V's sales and profits of online microtransactions, no one would think it would be crazy at all for a company like Sony to buy take two.

If you think streaming, VR or AR is going to become mainstream in the next decade or so, you're going to have to start preparing yourself for disappointment. VR/AR is successful as its ever been and it's sales appear to be stagnating across the board. At this rate it's looking like PSVR will end up selling its first two million units faster than their next two million units, and that's the most popular VR headset by far. It appears that the biggest publishers that dabbled in VR modes for big franchises are already moving on (see Codemasters having a VR Mode in Dirt Rally, but not Dirt Rally 2.0 as one example) and as for streaming - well, We've been told that it's going to be taking over gaming since the PS3. Sony bought Gaikai in 2012 for pete sake. Is video game streaming meaningfully more popular today than it was five years ago? Or is it one of this things that is always on the verge of taking off but never really does?

But you're wrong, there's nothing wrong with not growing when you're dominating your industry. If Apple was selling 99% of smart phones made every year, are they dieing if sales stagnate and they don't manage to get that final 1%? Of course not . But, then again, that's not to say that Sony isn't growing. They're just not growing in the way you want them to, so you ignore it.

It would be 100 fold cheaper to use one of their 1st party studios to develop a GTA clone than buying take two.