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Why would Sony sell the biggest part of their company. Aside from movies/music/games (and movies mostly thanks to Marvel) they aren't really relevant in any other market. Not in mobile phones, not really in the TV market, audio market, not really in the camera market etc. So if Sony where to sell playstation they might as well sell the rest.

They’re about to have a near monopoly on the anime distribution, which I believe will be the growth driver going for them once the transaction’s done

I don't think Sony is ready to throw in the towel yet, not by a long shot. The huge financial failure of the PS3 eventually lead to the Vita's demise quite a few years later. Basically they could only seriously back one system: home or handheld. They chose the PS4 over the Vita and eventually exited the handheld market. But that really shows how important the home console market is to them. They were totally willing to screw their handheld line to keep fighting over the home console market.

Sony is going to fight this thing out. It would take many years and a lot of losses to get them to exit the home console market or sell it off or something like that.

The Japanese wouldn't allow the company (Sony or Nintendo) to be bought by an outside country's company. But PlayStation isn't a company. It's a part of Sony.

I don't think, if Sony was presented with a lucrative offer, and especially if Sony had plan to reinvest that money in something more profitable than AAA gaming, that the Japanese government would turn them down. Sony would still be a Japanese company, would have earned a huge amount of short term cash, and would have a plan of how to turn that cash into a lot more cash.

Perhaps one of those Big Tech Giants will buy them out. Or perhaps a bunch of AAA publishers will band together under one company and use their money to buy PlayStation in an effort to remain independent from Big Tech, which would give the PlayStation a whole lot of exclusives.

Imagine Take-Two, Ubisoft, EA, and some others merging then buying PlayStation from Sony under a new company name.

TakeEASoft's PlayStation

Or Maybe SEGA/Nintendo/Sony will merge into one company to defend Japanese companies from the West, reduce redundant expenses, and focus on what each group is good at (Sony narrative/edgy single player experiences, Nintendo family friendly games with a mix of single and multiplayer, and Sega kind of rounding it out with a little bit of both). Imagine the Smash Bros, Mario Kart v. Sonic Racing, Hyrule:Total War, The Legend of Zelda: Kratos vs. Ganondorf potential!

I don't see it. Sony has become an integrated entertainment content company. Music, movies/ other video, and video games. I don't see where the company gets broken up. The value is in the IP synergies.

That said, somebody might want to buy all of the entertainment assets. Many of the big tech players that have already been mentioned would love the Sony Pictures and music stuff for their streaming services, and they all want in to gaming. So, I could see that happening, in theory at least.

I'd bet heavily against a sale of the PlayStation division in the next few years.  I'd bet against a sale of all of the entertainment assets too, but maybe I'd bet a little less. 

Like the witcher selling more copies after the netflix show

lol remember the same headlines a year or so after ps3 launched ,how abysmal and bleak it all looked for the company?> xbxo 360 had a year head start launch, xbox live was ahead of it's time and psn wasn't as good, , ps3 was priced $100- $200 more, cell processor was a bitch to develop for, talks of sony playstation going bankrupt .. and look what happened. I swear many thought sony was legit going to sell the playstation off to apple. Ps3 came out on top in the end, had the better games, was still making AAA games right till the final year while xbox 360 went out quiet, ended up being the lead system to develop for for multiplats, globally sold better etc.. then ps4 came out and was leading all the way through. And so it continues with ps5. It aint going anywhere. They will be pushing tech with the dual sense along with vr2 to come and the continued leader of putting out AAA exclusives. I doubt a game such as call of duty which is on the decline will sway that many away from ps5, if microsoft decide to make it exclusive.

If anyhing microsoft seems to have paid more than what it's worth. Alot of those games in the portfolio don't bring in as much revenue as they used to. Todays audience and the future will compromise of people who weren't the same die hard fans that made those games so big.   if i had to bet, playstation will come out on top, xbox will go out, and nintendo will always be the quiet achiever.

In that sense, I could see Disney buying Sony's Entertainment divisions. Not sure how much cash Disney has, but it would give them the ability to greatly expand Disney+/Hulu subscriber counts (like MS is trying to do by purchasing companies to increase Gamepass subscriber counts). Plus they'd get the lucrative Marvel franchises they don't currently have access to and the MCU will finally be united. Think what the PlayStation studios could do with all those Disney intellectual properties in terms of games!