Main goal is Anime.

Video game is just icing.


Sucks for the anime industry and if they do get acquired - hopefully the IPs will be multiplat still, at least PC.

Regulators won't do anything, they already let Disney acquire everything up to now. And they didn't protest much to MS acquiring act-blizz.

it would require a huge amount of restructuring in the first place when there's no chance at all of Kadokawa being placed under playstation. Besides being parent to some game developers kadokawa doesn't operate in the same spaces as playstation. And playstation is fully it's own thing with the same way sony music and sony pictures are. They make their own acquisitions to the point that playstation bought Audeze and became a direct competitor to Sony Electronics in the audio space.

The funny part is that Sony Music has published their own games on other platforms.

A lot of this will be dependent on what exactly Sony does with Kadokawa. If they keep them whole as a new company under Sony Group or Sony Music/Sony Pictures, then they'd likely publish elsewhere.

If they split up Kadokawa into different divisions, giving SIE the gaming parts, then they'd likely go exclusive. 

Well, they merged Funimation and Crunchyroll and I see some overlap between Kadokawa and Aniplex. But I can see the following happening: they split off Anime production and giving it Aniplex, while they keep print/manga with Kadokawa. Which would give them a nice simple structure: Kadokawa for print, Aniplex for animation and Crunchyroll for streaming.

What happens with games is up in the air, but as I understand it Kadokawa doesn't publish itself, but owns stakes in other studios. As they are organisationally distinct they could be moved over, even to SIE. And yes, SIE is the one interested in exclusivity, even though they did go much more multiplat recently. But, I am not sure how SIE will move now that Jim, Ryan is out. Did they give up on their live service push, or ease it and integrate it with other titles or still going forward? Yes, some games are cancelled, which still leaves quite some live service games.

The other thing is: Sony seems to have lost some trust in SIE. Their joint venture with PocketPair over Palworld was made with Sony Pictures and Aniplex. So I can seeing that Sony is not willing to give more studios to SIE for the time being, until they prove themself again. They have the structures to publish games outside of SIE, be it Sony Pictures or Aniplex. They might keep it there for the moment.

While Sony might restructure eventually, it would be enormously expensive and legally complex, so I think Kadokawa would continue to exist as-is for a good while.

Also, this article ( https://www.pushsquare.com/features/why-would-sony-want-to-buy-kadokawa ) seems to imply that this might be less about Sony being aggressive and more about Kadokawa being in a vulnerable state. If it really is a situation where Kadokawa might end up in the hands of foreign investors then I think the Japanese government would be behind Sony.

Also also, GAMERA CINEMATIC UNIVERSE!!

I honestly hope this happends.

After we learned it wasn't just a rumor.
I think this is good for both parties.
The only ones that might suffer abit, will be xbox users.... I could see sony makeing some titles Playstation/PC only.
(On the gaming side, even if this is likely mostly for the Anime/Manga aspect, and IPs there)

Soon BloodBorne Remake, BloodBorne 2, demon souls ect.... and maybe a new Elden Ring afterwards...
And maybe sony borrows, some of those Anime IP and make some Isekai based RPGs.
(I'm hugely into Lightnovels, Mangas and love Isekai stuff.... and RPGs.... LET IT HAPPEND!)

SONY gutted SONY Japan Studio. Kadokawa or lets be serious, Fromsoftware, could be an awesome replacement assuming they're funded and given the ability to go beyond Soul games. I would love to see more non souls games from them and maybe some ressurections. Here's  my problems:

1. "This" SONY. We know that From will get kingly treatment. What about Acquire (Tenchu, Way of the Samurai, Octopath), Spike Chunsoft's own titles (Danganronpa, Mystery Dungeon) titles that Spike Chunsoft developed but not owned (Pokemon, Dragon Ball ext). They tend to make niche products that do not align with what "this" SONY is doing. 

2. Another 3rd party being gobbled up and potentially wipe out. Too many developers being folded after being bought out. 

This could really help SONY out in Japan though, but under "this" SONY, I'm not looking positive on this.

Let's hope this fails.