Hopefully this doesn't happen because MS will just buy out CD project Red as a reaction. Besides, Sony needs more Japanese support not Zenimax. Their Japan sales numbers are in the toilet. Capcom, Sega or SE would be a better fit. Hell even Falcom or something. They have FF7 Remake this year for a boost and that's it for Japan.

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That makes far more sense, especially buying someone smaller and far more related to them like Falcom (a company that has already released and has continue to release PS exclusives), not to mention Falcom games are amazing in pretty much every single aspect except tech wise since they look like Vita games to be honest... a AAA Falcom game would be effing Awesome, and Sony could indeed benefit from trying to reagain some lost ground in Japan, that being said i dont think this will ever happen since i have no reason to believe Sony even cares about regaining market share in Japan not to mention in order to do such a thing it would take far more than this...

Yeah.. seems fake as shit to me. Like the rumour of of sony buying take two

Would be too big, but I would like to see it just to see a big shakeup in the gaming industry.

I'm sceptical, if it was done just for PS5 and the Publisher was just console then no way. but  MS has its Xbox/ PC sub plan and the future seems to be Netflix type platforms, so this may well be Sony's reaction to those. they gain more content and rather than maintaining the status quo with  Xbox having carte blanche in the PC realm  they end up with a PC portfolio for their platform and at the same time can do a Minecraft with the Console side.

Every studio bought recently has been relatively small.

So some potentially multi billion dollar purchase feels unlikely. Its cheaper to make really good clones. Look at Outer Worlds for example.

How exactly would that shake things up? It would mean more exclusives for Sony but also less risks.

3rd parties, especially big ones, tend to take more risks in output because they can rely on muliple platforms for sales.

Its apparent MLB The Show isnt thriving enough just relying on Playstation, going multiplat to be worthwhile.

Well I disagree. I tend to enjoy Exclusives/ Console exclusives more than Multiplats on any system. Why? Because they take a higher risk focusing on a more narrow fanbase rather than catering to the masses. If Sony bought Zenimax and MS retaliated with a big purchase then they could rival Nintendo in first party output. That would be a big shakeup in the industry compared to the last few generations of the PS/XB consoles being quite similar, but unable to keep up with Nintendo in first party output.

If Zenimax are actually willing to sell then MS would have been all over that.

Obviously, if 3rd party games didn't exist, only Nintendo of the big 3 could survive with their 1st party games. Also, if Sony and MS really do that, Nintendo will try to do the same too, for example: Platinum Games