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Kasz216 on 16 July 2008
Gazz said:

As many, if not all of you know Sony owns a small but substantial stake in Square Enix, 8.9% to be exact*. In a ironic twist of events they saw their stock value rise with 5.22%** today to 20.16 € and the fact that one of 2 FF13 (versus is still PS3 exclusive) games will go multiplatform to the competition provided that. I finbd it extremely funny that Sony seems to profit from the 360 fanboys who are indirectly fueling the competition.

* http://www.square-enix.com/jp/ir/e/stock/stockholder/

** http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=9684&m=BE

 

Either this is just a stroke of luck for Sony or a brilliant marketing plan in which they use their influence to promote the PS3 version as superiour and Blu ray as a nessecity. As the second biggest shareholder in the company they certainly carry enough weight. Shareholders (1 and 2 are the same) above Sony are both Enix for those who do not know.

 

One thing is for sure, 360 fanboys (like the ones to be found here) made Sony a whole lot richer today. Sony thanks you for that

 

Edit: wtf is up with the letters?

Eh Microsoft benefits off of every blu-ray disc sold due to winning the DRM bid.

So when PS3 won the format war... it made Microsoft a lot more richer.

Blu-ray DRMs probably are worth more then the one time minor stock gain.

I wouldn't think about it too hard.

 



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badgenome on 16 July 2008
kirby007 said:
errr.... did they sell their stock? otherwise they made NOTHING

True. Actually, it just got more expensive for Sony to do what a few PS3 fans have been saying lately: "BUY SQUARE-ENIX!!!"

 



Gazz on 16 July 2008
kirby007 said:
errr.... did they sell their stock? otherwise they made NOTHING

 

So value of your company and it's assets doesn't increase when your stocks go up? Quick, somebody inform the entire economic community, we have a breaktrough in economics from professor Kirby.



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kirby007 on 16 July 2008
badgenome said:
kirby007 said:
errr.... did they sell their stock? otherwise they made NOTHING

True. Actually, it just got more expensive for Sony to do what a few PS3 fans have been saying lately: "BUY SQUARE-ENIX!!!"

 

 

AMEN sony actually also lost outside the FF loss xD



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kirby007 on 16 July 2008
Gazz said:
kirby007 said:
errr.... did they sell their stock? otherwise they made NOTHING

 

So value of your company and it's assets doesn't increase when your stocks go up? Quick, somebody inform the entire economic community, we have a breaktrough in economics from professor Kirby.

 

well they only get profit if they sell and that they probably won't do so this is BS



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alucardremixed on 16 July 2008

LOL more for Sony's internal development. Btw, sony has to sell their shares to actually take in the money?



Gazz on 16 July 2008
kirby007 said:
Gazz said:
kirby007 said:
errr.... did they sell their stock? otherwise they made NOTHING

 

So value of your company and it's assets doesn't increase when your stocks go up? Quick, somebody inform the entire economic community, we have a breaktrough in economics from professor Kirby.

 

well they only get profit if they sell and that they probably won't do so this is BS

 

Holy crap, that means that the biggest shareholders in Se are all broke till they sell, no wonder MS had to finance them. No profit margins, no monthly payments or anything. Thank you for clarifying this matter for us professsor Kirby.



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kirby007 on 16 July 2008
alucardremixed said:
LOL more for Sony's internal development. Btw, sony has to sell their shares to actually take in the money?

 

yep...



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kirby007 on 16 July 2008
Gazz said:
kirby007 said:
Gazz said:
kirby007 said:
errr.... did they sell their stock? otherwise they made NOTHING

 

So value of your company and it's assets doesn't increase when your stocks go up? Quick, somebody inform the entire economic community, we have a breaktrough in economics from professor Kirby.

 

well they only get profit if they sell and that they probably won't do so this is BS

 

Holy crap, that means that the biggest shareholders in Se are all broke till they sell, no wonder MS had to finance them. No profit margins, no monthly payments or anything. Thank you for clarifying this matter for us professsor Kirby.

well you are correct on this one xD they only have valuepapers

 



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Godot on 16 July 2008

Sky rocketed? 5%?



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