>Take-Two Interactive Software TTWO, +5.26% stock climbed 4.7% on rumors that Sony Corp. SNE, +0.94% “is in advanced board level discussions to acquire Take-Two Interactive in a mostly cash deal,” that would value the company at $130 share, according to Joel Kulina, head of technology and media trading at Wedbush Securities.
Nintendo is fucking retarded, they had the chance to buy Game Freak, SquareSoft & Rare back in the 90s. But refused. They genuinely deserve to die
Gavin Reed
Oh shit! GTA will get censored to death
Colton Edwards
Investors are actual retards. That won’t happen. Would be amazing if it did though
Leo Green
Sony had the opportunity to buy Atlus and refused
Ryder Parker
>Sony losing money hand over foot >Thinking they can afford take two who are literally printing bills
Grayson Harris
Way to take the wind right out of Microsoft. This surely isn't by chance.
Austin Brooks
and they've constantly tried to buy Insomniac and have gotten rejected millions of times
Elijah Perez
Who are you quoting?
Cooper Sanders
>Would be amazing it would be a net negative for vidya as a whole, Sony exclusives are already forgettable for the most part as is, we don't need them to own actually good IPs now
Justin Ward
>Source is Michael Pachter's firm NINTENDO BUYS ROCKSTAR CONFIRMED
Eli Davis
Wonder if this will come at the cost of Sony shedding their cellphone division.
Levi Butler
>thinking this is a good thing when this would mean most of the edgy shit in GTA and other Rockstar games will be removed for being too inappropriate
Kayden Gray
The op.
Juan Rogers
Ok, I don't care, where's Bully 2?
Nolan Ramirez
Like Microsoft buying EA last year, right? Fucking gullible ponies.
I agree it's worse but I was pretty surprised how well XCOM 2 transitioned to controller
Joseph Sullivan
sony just won every future generation, it's over. now sony can let rockstar handle all their big exclusives while they focus on niche series like ape escape, wild arms and gravity rush.
Isaac Gray
Namco
Ryan Moore
i know this is a meme thread but take 2's market cap is 11 billion dollars
No more compact versions in the Xperia line up so that division can burn and I won't feel bad.
Henry Sanders
I dont think so user, look at TLOU2, that game is full of gore
Dylan Wilson
>gta vi ps5 exclusive BRO
Aaron Bennett
I want it to be true for the shitstorm. That is where I get my joy these days
Leo Campbell
>Multi billion dollar buyout from a company worth 20 billion
Huh?
Gavin Ortiz
M-maybe they could make an other army of two, but not complete shit
Jace Jenkins
Wasn't sony half broke just a couple of years ago to the point they had to sell half of their divisions and almost sold Sony Pictures? I don't believe this for a second, no matter how successful PS4 is
Carson Brown
you won't be allowed to torture women anymore like you could in RDR1 and sort of in RDR2 and basically every GTA game.
You think SIE would dish out 12B to acquire Take Two? It would be their biggest purchase to date.
Adam Wood
>Michael Pachter y i k e s even resetniggers hate him
Easton Reyes
So in a ideal world gaming would be like this > Sony + Rockstar, Insomiac, Naughty Dog > Nintendo + Square, Konami, Platinum There only needs to be two console companies
Sony's market worth is like 80 billion. Last year they got 20 billion from vidya alone.
Sony as a whole might finally realise they'd be fucked without PS
David Jackson
GTA already had little nudity to begin with, and with how much Sony has been pushing gore porn lately with the Last of Us, I'd say GTA is in good hands.
Jack Collins
Platinum
Isaac Robinson
>chance to buy >gamefreak, one of the laziest video game company in the world >SquareSoft who takes 10 years to release Final Fantasy XV, a huge pile of shit that is still unfinished >Rare, who made Sea of Thieves they really missed out, didn't they
Austin Richardson
HOLY SHIT ALL OF Yea Forums BTFO
Leo Myers
And you can't read. What OP posted is literally in that fucking article.
>Bloodborne 2 Switch exclusive IMAGINE HOW DESTROYED THIS ENTIRE BOARD WOULD BE
Ian Collins
If this happened all the good talent at rockstar would just leave. These people didn't join rockstar to work as a second party developer. Its the same reason why Nintendo doesn't buy platinum. It happened to Microsoft with Rare.
Liam Wood
I don't even remember if a big Rockstar game ever had a PC release simultaneously with consoles. It's always been consoles first, PC way later (if ever).
Elijah Murphy
well, so am I, so you're in good company. I'm only happy when I'm ingesting prescription drugs.
Jonathan Scott
DOUBT
Michael Bailey
wait, didn't gta made a fucking bazillgalion dollar? why are they selling to sony?
Noah Jackson
sure take-two doesn't make any games I play anyways, no loss seriously the last two two game I bought was bioshock infinite and that killed the series honestly forgot they published games outside of rockstar and sports
>why would you buy apple stock in 2000 when it dipped to $150 in january 2019 This is how braindead you sound.
Cameron Murphy
This will never happen
Isaiah Collins
This is being reported by an actual source and isn't Reddit desperation though.
William Lewis
GTA hasn't been good since SA and RDR2 was shit
Jordan Walker
They were but they made a fuck ton of money thanks to the PS4. They did so well they even moved their gaming HQ to California which only made things easier for them too.
Won't say they can't buy it, but don't think it's worth it, besides, getting a company mostly cost double amount of the Market cap at least.
Benjamin Sullivan
nintendo buying square would have been a disaster, given that square was already sick of nintendo's shit by the mid-'90s and then nearly went bankrupt making that dogshit final fantasy movie. rare, on the other hand, would have been better off if nintendo owned them. microsoft ran rare into the ground because they're clueless about how to make good games. the "rare" who made sea of thieves is rare in name only, all the actual talent left years ago.
Levi Allen
yeah, when was the last time Nintendo actually purchased a studio? was it Monolith?
Landon White
SquareSoft would have never merged if they joined Nintendo so all of their games post FFX would be masterpieces
Aaron Long
Snoy barely has money to stay afloat let alone buy Rockstar lmao
Luke Gonzalez
Bloodborne IP is owned by Sony though
Also
>People say Rockstar could get away with ignoring Sonys censorship
>Sony buys them
OH NO NO NO
Isaiah Perry
Sony doesn't even have the cash for such a buyout
Jordan Evans
>the BRAINLETS ITT who don't realise Sony don't need to meet T2's market cap, but rather buy out a controlling amount of shares.
Sure they wouldn't be sole owners all at once but that's enough for exclusivity.
Ethan White
Pachter isn't the source though. It's another dude.
Henry Clark
Cinematic story driven linear experiences. Hope you liked The Bureau. #4theplayers
Jace Jones
good thing pachter isn't the source.
Jordan Scott
can't Rockstar become independent
John Carter
>tfw if MS was smart enough they could've driven Playstation to it's grave but instead they went full retard and only fueled their dominance Funny how world works
>They had the chance to make gaming worse but refused Explain how this is a bad thing. More independent publishers are way better and other companies should only be bought to avoid bankruptcy
Joshua Scott
Can you cunts consider something for 1 sec
Rockstar North developed Getaway 3 set in London
Nicholas Rodriguez
>the company that barley manages to make profit supposedly buys the gta publishers Sure it's not T2 buying out SIE?
Isaiah Perry
Microsoft should buy Nintendo desu.
Luis Hill
>Microsoft has been acquiring all these dead end studios >Sony sits back laughing
Robert Green
>sony buys out the basketball american market
xbox is done for
Easton Russell
a lot of people don't really understand this situation about the whole pokemon franchise but yeah you are correct, nintendo pretty much own it but not outright on paper sure GF are totally free to go and make game for any other companies if they want, however if you think they can just bring the pokemon trademark with them you are solely mistaken
Charles Garcia
sony walks the walk
Eli Edwards
>Enix Interactive wouldn't be stuck making JRPGs >we could've actually seen a resurgence of all their more forgotten ips like Bust a Groove with the occasional Dragon Quest every few years still mad
Kevin Jenkins
Monolith aka programmers god
Dominic Foster
Remember when Ubisoft was supposed to be bought?
Juan Richardson
Hey man
the new talent is good at making water physics
content still sucks though
Luis James
Jesus Christ if that happens then Sony would finally have a game
Jace Jones
Finally get Agent?
Ryan Wilson
they almost were, it was a hard fought battle to keep Vivendi assholes from buying them out
Jordan Davis
is that the only instance where the French didn't surrender?
Brayden Johnson
>apple stock in 2000, 5 USD >apple stock in 2019, 172 USD see, that would've been a good investment buying something that raised in value over time, not progressively devolve in value
Alexander Scott
Even harder than just buy whole Take Two unless you think shareholders will let Sony buy "enough amount of share" easily.
Take Two isn't dying company.
Carson Hall
>company legit never release anything on nintendo consoles beside a fringe gta spin off and a port of LA noire >somehow nintendo should care if anything the xbox crowd should be scared
Zachary King
It's a viable question but R* has a contract of creative freedom and being an exclusive doesn't make sense at all financially, that's just instantly reducing profits of their games by over a half
Ayden Ortiz
You know that scene in Simpsons where the Yakuza little guy is standing on the lawn not doing anything.
The Mafia and Yakuza cronies are MS and Epic, buying up exclusives and studios all over the place, while Sony is the little Yakuza leader who is standing there contently with something up his sleeve
Michael Phillips
This would be an absolutely terrible business decision. There's a reason why Microsoft continues to put Minecraft on every platform instead of making it exclusive to Xbox and PC. Because if they didn't, someone would just make a multi play Minecraft clone and take over the market. Making GTA exclusive would just result in EA or Activision making a super huge budget GTA clone and taking over that market. Sony would be dropping 10 billion dollars for nothing.
Thomas Flores
I know I'm a brainlet but why do multi-branch companies don't just cut the losses and dissolve their unsuccesful branches? In the case of Sony they could easily redirect the ressources and employees towards the other branches.
Alexander Rivera
What would be the point of buying this when Microsoft is basically quitting the console business anyway?
Connor Wilson
don't forget about the pc crowd. no rdr2 for them, no more gta ever, etc. they're stuck with nothing but indie pixelshit and e-sports trash.
Owen Cruz
I would argue R* would have more creative freedom at Sony than T2. Nothing about GTA Online feels like a natural R* thing to me.
Sony have shown they tend to roll with what a dev is doing from a distance unless it truly becomes untenable. I can't believe Dreams never got cancelled
Jonathan Taylor
Yeah, I'm sure Nintendo having direct control wouldn't change their potential future at all. It's not like they had a CEO that took fortune teller advice and spent at one point. FF XV was inevitable.
I thought Nintendo did wanted to buy Rare but not at the price Rare wanted
Nathaniel Bailey
Oh yeah, all this talk about console companies i totally forgot about the PC crowd, lmao. That would be a big shitstorm
Alexander Morgan
Microsoft only bought Rare because they wanted Donkey Kong. Once they realized DK wasn't actually a Rare IP they just ignored them.
Ethan Jenkins
I can picture Sony liquidating movie division just to get buy Take Two
Gavin Wood
Everyone has tried GTA clones for over a decade now. MS with Saints Row 1, Ubi with Watch Dogs, Activision with True Crime Hong Kong (before they canned it and it became Sleeping Dogs). No matter what nothing is EVER going to come within a mile of matching the brand of GTA
Joshua Nelson
Is this the hourly snoy cope general? I think the DMC5 flop and weak ps4 sales from the media create made them really seething today
Ian Martinez
>R* has a contract of creative freedom Then they'd be right at home with Sony. If a studio has proved themselves Sony let them get away with fucking murder. Nintendo or Microsoft would've fucking axed Dreams a long time ago.
Caleb Hill
Those big bucks from the emoji movie.
Gavin Powell
It will literally pay for itself. Sony just bought EMI for 1B.
Jose Lewis
They all suck completely dick now & if SquareSoft was owned by Nintendo then it would save the entire RPG genre due to their amazing quality raising the standards & moe waifu bait shit wouldn’t exidt
Alexander Powell
I wonder what they could get for selling Spiderman universe alone
Jaxon Clark
Sure, and then FF7 will come out during this console generation.
Julian Myers
I'd be really fucking mad.
Julian Parker
>Making GTA exclusive would just result in EA or Activision making a super huge budget GTA clone and taking over that market. remember what happened when ea tried to make a big-budget destiny/warframe clone? the only thing they can make anymore without flopping is lootboxes and fifa shit. activision is no better. face it: sony won.
Camden Scott
I would literally shitpost non stop. I would eat or sleep, I would only be making gold faces and rubbing it in people's faces
Joshua Cook
Yeah and Microsoft was going to buy EA.
Michael Howard
At the end of its run the PS3 had catch up with the 360 in sales
John Richardson
Because GTA is available on every platform. If it becomes exclusive, it frees up marketshare for a new competitor to make his clone, as this time, it WILL get attention. And if it's good, and end up even better, this new IP would de-facto become the new GTA. It's very risky to leave up an entire market.
Angel Morales
I honestly can't imagine how that shit went down What sort of fucking company just buy another company without even knowing which IP they do or do not own
Dylan Hernandez
Sony is making their own GTA game featuring Sonic as a movie crossover.
Brandon Morales
Remember when EA was in talks to buy out Take-Two, then talks fell threw and EA had a shitfit and attempted a hostile takeover?
I thought they made like over 1 billion of sale for GTA in a week or some shit? I remember those headlines, but I never knew how much they spent for game + marketing though but i can't imagine it to be cheap
Oliver Hernandez
No one has tried a serious GTA clone because they know they can't compete with the brand value. If they can guarantee themselves 100% of the sales in that market on Xbox and PC they will do it. Imagine GTA 6 drops only on ps5 to an audience of about 50 million when it comes out while EA's GTA clone drops on literally everything (ps4, xbone, ps5, Xbone 2, PC, Switch) to an audience of 300+ million. It's not hard to see which sells more.
Angel Williams
litteraly nothing to show, so you have to create fake news
Mason Long
Yes, but Sony proper wasn't doing well and PS saved them. If xbone was an actual competition to PS4 it might've not ended so well for Sony
Lincoln Price
Lying isn't working though.
Landon Thompson
>SFVI exclusive >any new Marvel vs Capcom now exclusive >RE exclusive >Monster Hunter exclusive >anything done with DMC will be exclusive >actual possibility we could get a real Okami 2 by Platinum >increased possibility for a DMC and Bayonetta crossover that would be great
Nathan Richardson
Konami
Adam Barnes
This pretty much. I don't think I've ever bought a single one of their games. Certainly not interested in anything I can think of.
Samuel Collins
Name one (1) thing snoy won
Joseph Thompson
>other companies should only be bought to avoid bankruptcy That was literally the case of Square though.
Aaron Long
>NINTENDO gets the most irrelevant companies Kek
Caleb Wright
>& moe waifu bait shit wouldn’t exidt somehow i really doubt this. it seem like it was just the course for the era. literally every fucking thing from manga anime was moe, then video game is just the next step
Ryder Long
It would bring Yea Forums to its knees.
Cameron Myers
>fringe GTA spin off Chinatown Wars is top three in the series. I'm sad we won't get top down GTA anymore.
Asher Roberts
THAT IT'S LIVING RENT FREE IN YOUR HEAD HAHAHAHAHA
have you seen the jrpgs nintendo currently owns? pokemon is borderline shovelware at this point and xenoblade and fire emblem are both full of "moe waifubait shit." if nintendo bought square, there'd be no such thing as nintendo anymore, at least not how we know them today. square would have dragged nintendo down with them with how they were throwing all their money away in the late '90s.
Mason Long
GTA will never have anything like abusing hookers again, or anything resembling an attractive woman.
Aiden Richardson
Costs for GTA5 were around 250 million. They made the money back on day 1.
Asher Nguyen
>Monster Hunter exclusive that alone would make Nintendo literally unstoppable in Japan
Landon Garcia
Sony's gonna revive Bioshock, Rockstar always preferred Sony, it was Take 2's board of investors who pressed Rockstar to go multiplat, Rockstar would much prefer the absolute freedom that comes under Sony
Anthony Sanders
Tendies mad that PS5 will get all R* exclusive. Not like Switch can play any of their games anyway
>If they can guarantee themselves 100% of the sales in that market on Xbox and PC they will do it. but they can't. people will buy a playstation to play gta rather than buy whatever awful lootbox-filled ripoff ea shits out.
Leo Myers
Pretty sure Microsoft or Google will step in with more cash if Sony indeed talking with Take Two, because if this rumor is true, it mean someone leaked what Sony is trying to do.
Joshua Green
I remember that. That was a great show EA put on.
Zachary Phillips
Pools were invented so we could put thots like that in them
Justin Lewis
No, The big boys already know
Isaiah Campbell
Nintendo never had Rockstar shit so why would they care now?
William Gomez
I agree it was a great game, but it was still a fringe spin off though. That just by definition, i wasn't try to downplay the game or anything.
Top down GTA probably harder to make to be fun or good nowadays, idk, i just feels like because of the limitation you impose ther you absolutely have to know what the fuck you are doing with it
Jack Rodriguez
>hostile takeover
How?
Blake Morales
No they're not. Pokemon is a bigger IP than GTA and it didn't sell 50 million 3DS. Those games push like 10 million console sales, gta would be similar. Most people don't buy a console for an exclusive game.
Evan Price
>the 5th generation >the 6th generation >the 8th generation >all future generations, now that they're adding gta and rdr to their already strong lineup of exclusives
Asher Watson
One thing for sure, TTWO has a similar cultural philosophy as Sony when it comes to making games: Better to delay than release a dud. And that it's better to make "fewer, bigger games" than a bunch of middling ones.
Carson Bailey
Capcom is too fucking jew to be bought, not to mention the whole cabal in charge are all family members so unless they actually all agree it will never happen
Christopher Nguyen
La noir?
Ryan Richardson
Sony as a whole worth a lot more than you think. They owned almost every media you see, TV, movies, anime, music, phones etc
Aiden Gray
Yeah, no, that just Rockstar. Bunch of shitty games are from 2k every year.
Cooper Baker
Nintendo never really had rockstar games outside of manhunt though, so why would they care?
Isaac King
Valve
Carson Morgan
Fate Grand Order gacha bucks.
Jaxson Price
Made by the same company that Pächter works for, so not reputable at all
so why hasn't ea made a big-budget pokemon ripoff yet to "guarantee themselves the pokemon market" on all non-nintendo platforms? oh wait, it's because they know people won't buy their shitty cash-grab ripoff instead of the real thing. it's the same thing with gta.
James Sullivan
>5th generation
Chase Carter
Imagine buying a PS for only GTA and RDR games like the no more buy a Xbox for just Halo.
>name a port of some half ass GTA from nearly a decade ago instead of naming GTA china on the ds shame shame shame
wait, which manhunt was on nintendo console? i don't recall this at all. i only remember bully on the wii
Andrew Wood
>but sony doesn't have money >but sony would censor it > but that that means it will be exclusive People are seething just thinking it would happen holy shit
Andrew Reed
yes? the ps1 ran circles around the n64 and saturn, it wasn't even close.
Even Microsoft buying EA's "rumor" from last year was bigger chance than this.
Noah Morgan
>the ps1 ran circles around the n64
Cameron Lee
Pokemon is successful purely because of nostalgia. GTA is not like that at all. No one is attached to GTAs characters or story.
Isaiah Rodriguez
ps1: 102.5 million sold n64: 33 million sold
Easton Long
Sony only won during the 6th generation with the ps2 >all future generations, now that they're adding gta and rdr to their already strong lineup of exclusives Do you honestly believe in clickbait? >already strong lineup of exclusives Lmao
>have to compare 2 or 3 nintendo consoles to 1 sony console to win good job i guess
Mason Butler
You're forgetting that the gameboy sold more
Thomas Flores
For what purpose? the only worthy thing 2K has is Bio, The Darkness, and R
Christian Young
>being this salty >trying this hard to cope What a glorious day.
Jordan Bell
Only an infantile virgin retard would prefer the n64
Did your mom breastfeed you until you were 16?
Owen Bennett
>Microsoft "H-here we go! We are proud to announce we have acquired this Romanian developer who makes RTS autism simulators hehe!!!" >Sony "lol I buy Rocktar, hail nippon"
>including handhelds, which nintendo had to start using as their "participation award" market when they couldn't compete with sony's home consoles anymore yikes!
Xavier Jackson
DUDE, SPORT TITLES literally fucking cash cow from normie
Ryan Hernandez
>nobody can compete with 7th/8th gen boring "10/10" GTA >nobody will try to make another fun GTA like San Andreas because they're only interested in muh Shark Card jewgold
Nolan Lee
>Did your mom breastfeed you until you were 16?
h-hot
Cooper Gonzalez
Do you have autism? You know each R* launch is literally the biggest money making thing in gaming industry until they launch another game?
Jose Johnson
they had the best games and all the third-party support too. the n64 library was pathetic outside of the biggest-name nintendo ip's.
Noah Smith
Man, so this is the power of Snoy. Really rots your brain
Charles Smith
>hail nippon but the playstation branch is california based
James Smith
Not my fault that all sony products other than home consoles (excluding the ps3) are flops >ps3 Flopped >psvita Flopped >pstv Flopped >ps classic Flopped
Chase Murphy
I doubt RDR 2 made as much as GTA 5
David Parker
>but they don't have third party support who cares about it! said no one ever
Hudson Gonzalez
Wait, so people are still playing GTA 5? I tried online a year ago and it was ludicrously boring.
Asher Baker
>w-well if if add both handheld and home consoles together then we beat sony's home console b-b-based nintendo!
Jayden Parker
It's not Team Ninja, so I don't really care.
Camden Hernandez
For some reason yes the online to 5 is still very active, it's the single piece of media to make the most money in history
Xavier Campbell
It added Sony handheld as well, why are you so mad?
102.5 million sold vs. 33 million sold says a lot of people did care about it. notice how nintendo had all the third party support when they were on top with the nes and snes, then they slid to a distant second place when the third parties moved to sony.
Oliver Sanders
Meh, I take it over smash rumors
Nicholas Carter
>pretending it's a pachter rumor when pachter isn't the source sony haters are desperate.
Aiden Reed
That will be funny, Google will abandon it on three years at most.
Jaxon Gutierrez
I couldn't give a fuck about company peons and their autistic corporate wars, even in this site. But why do "Sonyfags" unironically support such a leftist company which has such big and shameless of a censorboner? Do you like leftism and censoring in gaming?
Not that the others are above that, but Sony is the worst by far.
It's literally a Pachter rumor, look who started the rumor and who works for that company
Brayden Richardson
Honestly what's so good about it? I logged in and the missions are all shit you need people to do them and they always fuck it up assuming you find any. People just race or fly aircraft 24/7 in those autistic game modes. I'm having a lot more fun with ace combat 7.
I made lots of money, bought the best apartment, an indestructible car and then I lost interest. Couldn't even be assed to get the trophies.
Joshua Lopez
Because the markets dictates it, its all about the money.
Kevin Peterson
Sony literally lost all of the money they made with the ps1 and ps2 thanks to the ps3
Censorship comes and goes, Nintendo did the same last gen.
The difference here is that Nintendo censored their own games, including big second party exclusives, meanwhile Sony censors retarded visual novels that 3 people care about.
Jayden Gutierrez
Yeah because MHW and RE2make sold high on Shitch right?
Michael Perry
I told you all over the next few years you would see Sony desperately going around trying to buy up as many 3rd party devs as they could.
The end is nigh.
Sony will soon be fucking dead in the gaming industry.
Might be like a lot of professional stock advisors, try to pump up stock you own once you want to sell. Considering there is literally only one source, it's definitely fake
Gavin Jones
DMC5 isn't a retarded visual novel lad. It's the GOTY.
Zachary Kelly
friendly reminder that the ps3 sold more than: >every nintendo console ever made. other than the wii >the original xbox and the xbone, while pretty much equalling the 360's sales >every sega console ever made a "flop" for sony is a crowning achievement for any other company.
Thomas Lopez
>PS3 sold the same as the 360 >b-but it flopped though
Jace Parker
>desperate If dominating for the next few gens is desperate, then what's their competition up to?
Ian Walker
Why would it censor an ass? God I hate these repressed people
Just imagine what Sony could do with the biggest IP in gaming being exclusive.
Battleborn
Jaxson Brown
damn, that wii u one must have hurt bad after the wii spike
James Lewis
>PS Network revenue at an all time high, aproaching Steam levels. >Both GoW and Spiderman break sales records >PS4 still outselling the Switch
>Sony going under
Heh, poor Nincels, they just can’t deal with Sony dominating so hard again.
Colton Perez
It's the only way they can make GTA6 a single player oriented game, it will be PS5 exclusive but otherwise GTA will suffer a horrible fate and most of Rockstar's single player IP will be dead
Levi Allen
Because console war thread like these are a one off kinda deal, you posted it once and move on. But Smash rumors thread are such a pain because there will be 10 threads up at once
Easton Gutierrez
Crapgamer on suicide watch.
Joseph Thompson
death stranding too
Jaxson James
Just like how Comcast acquired 20th Century Fox, right?
Eli Ross
>censored on all platforms with a patch >have to disable an entire visual effect from the whole game in order to "fix" it >somehow this is sony's fault and not capcom
Brayden Peterson
It's making a comeback.
Andrew Parker
>buying stocks on a company = owning it Is everyone on this fucking board underage?
I sorta imagined Sony would eventually buy a big game studios but it would be Konami or Sega
Liam Price
just because you can uncensor it on pc by disabling a graphics setting doesn't change the fact that crapcom censored it in the first place. but i get it, the crapcom shills here have to find someone else to blame.
Cooper Jackson
>moving the goalpost this hard >PS3 flopped >it didnt it sold quite a lot >b-b-but money Sad
Eli Bell
Well, I survived all those Smash threads, this will be a cake walk in comparison
Charles James
Your mom.
Carter Cook
Google didn't buy Sega, stop spreading this misinformation
Jordan Wilson
>the markets dictates it No it doesn't. Some small blue-haired tribe does.
Kevin Russell
I keep seeing this google buy sega shit, where is that even come from? What sega games gonna be play on? also Nintendo buy Lv5 and tell GF they are all fucking fired
Eli Wright
Sonybros in denial.
Sony are going the way of the dodo.
Its ok though, you'll migrate to Google or Microsoft's new streaming service. Nothing if value will be lost.
Nintendo will keep on trucking like they always do.
Don't get too attached to Sony. The landscape is changing. Screencap this.
Angel Lee
Tough luck you faggot nigger, next time don’t spam smash shit for an entire FUCKING YEAR NONSTOP.
I swear i will fucking ruin this board
Alexander Anderson
>wanting monopolies
Bootlickers can fuck off
Dylan Carter
Trish's ass isn't censored on the PC you filthy lying fucking nigger.
Connor Foster
Take-Two is too big and have way too many successful titles to be bought that easily. I don't think Sony has the money to buy such huge company with multiple subsidiaries and ips.
Luis Carter
It barely broke even, don't delude yourself.
Juan Harris
Nintendo don't own GF.
Lincoln Butler
Sony has a market cap of 60B, buying Take Two would be cake, unlike Fox.
Xavier Martinez
>GTA VI a PlayStation exclusive Well fuck.
Justin Ross
Why are you posting a picture of a Japanese man while talking about a Californian company?
Like sonyfags made anti-botw threads for two years? Or anal vore for over three? Or never ever threads years ago?
Luis Richardson
>So low res you can't even appreciate the details Also RE7 was insane in VR (way better). But i guess we wouldn't see anything like that again i take it.
Gabriel Rogers
Someone from in the industry here.
I never heard about this Take Two stuff but I know for sure that Sony is acquiring JP developer before the end of the year, it's not hard to guess which one. I also heard murmurs about Bluepoint.
yes, that's why ps4 sales are through the roof, psn alone generated more revenue than all of nintendo last year, and they're buying rockstar - because they're "going the way of the dodo." you guys mock pachter, but you've been saying that "sony is doomed for real this time!" since 2006 and you've never once been right. you're no better.
Charles Murphy
Yeah, poor Yea Forums, losing its respect and quality, how can it handle another autist
They actually do have % in the company, just not fully control since it was never revealed publicly. Either way they got GF by the balls with the whole pokemon thing
Isaac Ward
Based Can't wait for incels to seethe when based Sony censors prostitutes in GTA 6
Daniel Walker
how will the new GTA be with nu-sony censoring everything
Cameron Johnson
Yeah, believe this bullshit. You are only deluding yourself.
Jose Wilson
>anti-botw False flags by Botw-Kun >anal vore More fun than smash threads, less quantity and instantly purged, unlike Smash threads >Never ever Don’t shitpost in Sony threads and you won’t get triggered by goldfaces, nincel.
Jaxson Morgan
Just wait a gen, PlayStation is dead anyway.
Christian Jones
It does though, I'm not talking about SJW, I'm talking about China. An untapped market for home console system, Sony been pushing hard for China and even set up a HQ there and those communist government hates lewd content... or anything they judge inappropriate.
Luke Torres
>They actually do have % in the company, just not fully control since it was never revealed publicly. Either way they got GF by the balls with the whole pokemon thing I mean, Nintendo can't fire GF even if they want.
Luke Evans
BioShock series Borderlands series Civilization series Grand Theft Auto series Mafia series Max Payne series Midnight Club series MLB 2K series NBA 2K series Red Dead series WWE 2K series XCOM series
>mostly cash deal I doubt Sony has 12+ billions dollars in cash.
Chase Bennett
Now you just showed yourself to be a blatant sonyfag. Both of them were spammed to the point where a good quarter of the board would be wojaks and gold faces at a time. They aren't video games, just pure shitposting without any value. You are the cancer killing Yea Forums
Jonathan Scott
>Sonyfag was actually a Steveposter It all makes sense now
Luis Jones
t.ass blasted google shill who thinks 5G cancer boxes are revolutionary I can tell it's you by typing pattern, Rajesh.
Parker Rodriguez
>succes = sales numbers Ouch, I bet you're still underage, read my post again and you have your answer >unironically using no u as an argument Embarrassing
Jaxon Morgan
If Sony bought Konami it would make Silent Hills viable again.
Leo Wilson
The future fuckwits.
Sony have nothing to offer when streaming services become the norm. Thats why they're desperately trying to buy up 3rd parties now. They're FUCKED.
Cameron Thomas
Borderlands is owned by Gearbox, not Take Two
Cameron King
They get handed to Quantum Dream and get 3deep5u story driven "games" Enjoy your translesbian halfarabic halfchinese aliens that dominate humanity plot.
Can you imagine GTA censored forever and turned into a vehicle for commiefornia SJW propaganda? H I L A RI O U S
Wyatt Clark
I thought that was fake until I found that part.
The fuck? How would Sony be able to buy Take-Two? Doesn't GTA alone sell like 70 million?
Ethan Green
This. Sony is not that rich. T2 is way too big for them.
Blake Barnes
Cope harder nincel, Smash is the worst thing that ever happened to this board, you need a reality check.
Aiden Brown
This is true, I shouldn't have said that, I just want the dramatic flair. They however can block GF making a pokemon game if they wanted, which is what i should have said (which of course is a dumb thing for them to do)
Aaron Davis
Quantic Dream left Sony for chinese investors.
William Ross
wow the critically acclaimed "nba2k" series???!??! WOW, I CARE ABOUT THIS
Carter Cox
>digital sales only, not including hardware sales or physical game sales Yikes is this the only way snoy wins?
Landon Nelson
>Sony have nothing to offer when streaming services become the norm. sure they do: god-tier games that you still actually own. they also already have their own streaming service on the side.
Alexander Rivera
Completely blew the Steam right outta Halo.
Eli Harris
>psn alone generated more revenue than all of nintendo last year, Very disingenuous stat given that the costs were far higher for Sony and the overall profit differences between Nintendo and Sony's gaming division last year were actually minimal.
Brayden Barnes
Doesnt Microsoft have way more money than Sony?
Camden Wood
Any big acquisition and the restructuring that follows takes years, game dev itself take years. If Nintendo (or anyone else) were to acquire Capcom (or any AAA publisher) right now, you wouldn't see a difference before ~2024. By then the Switch will be on its deathbed and game streaming will be the norm.
Jack Carter
>Streaming services becoming the norn lmao, playing games with that kind of lag will never be acceptable or mainstream, in fact it’s the reason the xbox division will get shut down next gen.
Justin Thomas
other then gta and bioshock what ips or recent games does take-two even have that are worth to get hyped about? in my eyes they are pretty shit since they ruined mafia by making part 3 all about race baiting
Mason Johnson
have you seen the PS5? NICE
James Allen
If I had to guess, R* blow their budget on RDR2 and somehow in reds so T2 are now up for grabs.
Aaron Harris
Never seen one, I don't think they reveal those numbers to the public
Landon Ward
So why do they censor their games in the West though, then? And I never had the Japs for gladly putting chinks over westerners.
Eli Cox
>Like sonyfags made anti-botw threads for two years? those are botw fans posting bait threads to get people to discuss the game, same shit that happens with every major title. >Or anal vore for over three? those are all nintendo fans trying to get sony discussion pushed off the board.
Jaxon Lewis
PSNow makes more than Gamepass. Cope.
Ayden Martinez
Actually they got rejected I think
SEGA was the top offer with Sony being second or third.
Colton Hill
>Sony have nothing to offer when streaming services become the norm. Thats why they're desperately trying to buy up 3rd parties now. They're FUCKED.
Did you mean : Xbox literally buying out multiple studios and announcing this at e3 instead of games?
Ryder Flores
FGO made 1 billion in a month with a tiny budget.
Mason Miller
No closer to 130%
Robert Howard
>Sony can get bailed out by Soccer, Baseball and Apehood (the last 2 Sony exclusives) every year just like how Nintendo gets bailed out by Mario rehashes.
Admit it, it would be huge.
Brandon Peterson
I was hoping Konami or Capcom, but TT is good.
Cameron Sanders
The only way to recover a man's faith
Ethan Johnson
It's mainly because they're selling digital copies of AAA games, you know, the ones that everyone buys the console for. Nintendo doesn't have as many of those.
Nathan Roberts
they have sport shit, but what else to hype about i don't really know x-com maybe?
Kevin Gutierrez
Corporations aren't your friends, Yea Forums.
Jacob Parker
This place is already sonygaf, don't even kid yourself. At least smash is a video game, your threads are pure shitposting.
Christopher Mitchell
>no PC version of GTA so I can mod out all of R*'s retarded decisions and put shit in that should have been there from the start
Just kill me now senpai
Hunter Russell
Not going to happen.
Absolutely not going to happen.
Owen Lopez
Wikipedia lists Sony as holding 19 Trillion in assets, and while I don't think that includes liabilities, it's still a giant number. Obviously Sony is an enormous company and this would basically involve whoever runs SCE playing ball with the real leaders to get the money, but i'm confident it would be techincally possible
Parker Brown
It's totally public information though, it's not secret. It's part of the financials. The problem is reliably finding them, and to find them in $. Because fuck Yens, I'm always missing 3 0s or some shit.
Isaac Cox
>>everything negative about Sony is a false flag. Nobody believes you, Sonyfags are simply cancer.
Parker Bennett
Ironically Rockstar's recent portfolio fits in with Sony's current design philosophy, would really cement PS as the "cinematic experience" machine.
Sebastian Wright
Sony gets a cut of every kid who buys v-bucks for epic Fortnite dances.
Jace Gray
I think this actually almost happened at one point, but they just got Monolith instead.
Cameron Jenkins
Shh....they'll call you a commie. You know how these burgers think.
Nathaniel Thompson
>only game company with an actual streaming service currently
>nothing to offer when streaming comes
Are you legitimately retarded?
Gavin Walker
>Taking a dive in operating income is the same as losing money kek
Chase Collins
The financials of this make it extremely unlikely, that would be a 10-15b dollar purchase. Even if Sony has that much cash on hand, there are way better ways they'd prefer to spend it.
Adam Flores
Again you ignored the statement Profits for Sony and Nintendo last year are very close Revenue is far higher for Sony, but so are the losses.
You don't go from a mere 80 millions in September 2018 to ONE FUCKING BILLION in a single month, even in december. Learn to read what USD and JPY are, while you're at it.
Chase Watson
Yes, A CUT. When you count revenue you count every dollar spent on PSN as a dollar for Sony, which is obviously retarded.
>it flopped >it didnt >but money if you said, it didnt make money you'd a point but you didnt say that and now you're saving face, also calling someone underage is a clear sign of being one himself
Owen Allen
I think (in case its true) this would be ultimately as bad deal as signing with Kojima for a game.
Rockstar's games still sell a ton, but they are in clear decline (RDR2 is garbage both the singleplayer and the online)
Daniel Morales
Can't wait for sony to do nothing with them and kill their franchises, only for them to multiplatform!
Cameron Walker
Imagine being this much of a snoycel Smash is an integral part of Yea Forums, has been for over 10 years.
Noah Adams
i hope this means red dead shitdemption never comes to PC
Jose Johnson
start coping now, because sony can now let rockstar make all the "cinematic experiences" while they bring back real games like ape escape, gravity rush, locoroco, patapon, wild arms, etc. it's going to be the best of both worlds.
Dylan Thompson
Not how it works retard.
Noah Wood
cope
Ryan Powell
Yep, this is your brain on Sony. Pathetic cancer killing Yea Forums, no redeeming qualities at all.
Kevin Cruz
Do explain how it does work.
Eli Brown
When you look at Monolith it makes you wonder why Nintendo aren't buying more studios. They're the only real first party source for JRPGs, and they were literally like 50% of the grunt work on BOTW.
John White
A huge number, but then again, Sony bought EMI last year for 2.2 billion and barely felt it.
Gavin Mitchell
that trillion is in YEN, not dollar so you have to take away 2 00 at the end
Joshua Ward
Pre rumor has it that T2 and Rockstar agree with Sony's stance on the future (high quality and cinematic single player games). Mutual symbiosis.
Charles Hill
Because money speaks louder than anything. Looks at movies industry, they have special scene just to appease china because they know it bring almost 60% of their revenues. You want to sell your video games there, you better censored that shit. I'm saying its right, but the market dictates it.
Oliver Wood
>losing billions is nothing more than a healthy "dive" Kek
Nolan Lewis
smash shit was NEVER as cancerous as it is now until the ballot happened. anyone who tries to pretend that ultimate rosterfagging is the same as brawl japan time is an actual newfag.
William Ward
>Yea Forums: streaming games is a failed concept and its killing the industry >sony doesnt want to push streaming >Yea Forums:STREAMING ITS THE BEST IDEA EVER AND SONY IS KILLING ITSELF BY NOT GOING THAT ROUTE What happened to this place after the PS4 became a success?
Charles Sanders
Sony already gets bailed out by walking simulator rehashes every year
Dylan Bennett
Rest in peace grand theft auto, you will be missed.
I think you misunderstood the word cotract. Having creative freedom was part of the deal of the takeover. T2 can sell them, but it doesn't null the contract. I kniw sony are god tier for giving creative freedom to their devs but its a moot point because they already have a contract. >Nothing about GTA Online feels like a natural R* thing to me Also R* said they will never get into first person shooters but basically turned GTAV and RDR2 into FPS games. I think it's a combination of the housers losing interest and just in it for the jew gold, R* losing it's quality devs, like benzies, the industry changing to online gaming and games as a service and T2 demanding GTA gets money from the online/games as service stuff. Remember they tried coop with SA and then online with IV, DLC with RDR, Vs GTAO was just a natural progress
Lincoln Baker
Because it's cheaper to just fund one offs like astral chain and Bayonetta 2/3, or promise ad money for stuff like SMT V
Christopher Clark
okay this is just absolute delusion right here
Evan Martin
>Smash is an integral part of Yea Forums That explains why this place behaves like a beacon for autism
Brayden Barnes
Fucking bu- >it is true damn
Ayden Davis
Sounds like someone is seething that no snoy game will ever get the love smash does
Buying a studio doesn't really do anything. Nintendo already has more IPs than they know what to do with so a new studio would just be employees who can quit at any time. Monolith was bought specifically for Takahashi.
Jackson Ward
Ok, but you didn't answer. Why do they censor their games in the West?
Ian Reed
If you have never heard of Rockstar or 2K, then you have been living under a rock for over the last decade and a half. >GTA, Borderlands, Civilization, Xcom, Basketball/Football, WWE, Red Dead, Bioshock >All potentially owned by Sony now if rumors are true
Samuel Collins
>only one game >literally next to no info has come out since that one gameplay trailer >BUT THIS MEANS THAT ALL OF THOSE CLASSIC SONY FRANCHISES ARE COMING BACK GUYS!!!!!!!!!!! delusion
Charles Clark
And most of them fails except for their gaming division
And I don't think Platinum want to be bought anyway, they got sick of capcom and then make platinum in the first place
Chase Sanders
i'm a sony/nintendo guy. i've been playing smash since 64, melee is one of my favorite games of all time. the vast majority of smash threads are shitposting, not "video game discussion."
Xavier Rogers
>while they bring back real games like ape escape, gravity rush, locoroco, patapon, wild arms AHAHAHAHA OH WOW
Snoy literally abandoned Japan to focus on interactive movies, those IPs are literally dead forever.
Leo Rogers
What would Winnie the poop poop poopy poop down-B would be like guys???
Aghhh this is too much!! I can’t wait to tell my bull’s wife about his reveal!! This is so crazy!
Imagine giving such a bullshit rumor this much attention that Yea Forums blows it out of proportion for immature console war fuckery like this -----> and this Corporations are not your friends, Yea Forums.
>only one game What about rereleasing stuff like Wipeout, Parappa and such on PS4?
Adrian Parker
Universal Standard, they also censored in Japan in case you're wondering.
Carson Lopez
god I love these posts
Henry Carter
>repeating the exact same thing again >losing billions is somehow not a failure, but a great succes How difficult is it for you to understand this? Is this what the snoy does to your brain?
>half ass resells that nobody bought yeah it's nothing chief, they couldn't even be bothered to include most of their classic ips like Parappa or Ape Escape on the PS Classic
Jayden Hill
I've heard ramblings of Sly Cooper returning.
Wyatt Reed
And i LOVE Smash, i’m so glad i had enough hubby points to buy it at launch.
Yep, a lot people here keep falling into that mistake that you have to outright buy somebody for them to work for you. While some jap devs actually hate that shit, this is why you see thing like Sakurai created Sora so he can do his thing in peace but they are still pretty much just nintendo only
Noah James
if they owned more studios, maybe all the ip's they're currently neglecting could start getting more games.
Ryan Bailey
Those Adam Sandler movies maybe suck, but they made money for Sony. Angry Bird is getting a sequel and Sony pictures already greenlighted MGS and Mario movie
Asher Baker
it's getting a TV show, no news about a new game any time soon, especially since Sucker Punch is currently making Honorable Samurai game
Matthew Kelly
Jim Ryan would be mad enough to do it.
Kayden Flores
>Midnight club if only evolution was still alive
Joshua Brooks
It is literally just one faggot samefagging. Just look at the filename, I wish we have soft ID so i can filter these cunts
Samuel Thomas
Sony pictures isn't working on the mario movie, it's universal that's making that
Jeremiah Fisher
sly cooper is actually getting an animated series from the same studio that did sonic boom. i would be shocked if it didn't end up getting a new game to coincide with that.
Hunter Scott
It always baffled me how sonyfags can dismiss Nintendo's games as kiddie shit while being hyped by kiddy shit like spyro, crash or spiderman.
Jaxson Ramirez
WE FLY HIGH. NO LIE. U KNOW DIS.
Jayden Hall
I don't buy that considering how much money GTA Online makes.
Kevin Rodriguez
I swear to god if I ever buy this fucking site from Hiro I will make sure all posters have those.
Jeremiah Brooks
>M-M-MY toy is better than your toy!
Seething mentally ill sonyshits always scrambling for relevance.
You are aware Sony is like two steps ahead right? PSNow? Gaikai? Onlive? rings a bell?
Samuel Foster
What happened to this cardboard thing? are new pack even being made? did it flopped?
Juan Ramirez
Nincels can’t meme, how sad and cringe :(
Michael Fisher
>ugh, sony only makes "cinematic experiences" anymore. remember when they used to have real games like crash and spyro? >ugh, crash and spyro are kiddie shit. how could you possibly get hyped for those?
Adrian Price
Japs might hate this but their game industry will have to consolidate if wants to compete with Western devs who are more dynamic
Connor Walker
>You are aware Sony is like two steps ahead right?
>why do multi-branch companies don't just cut the losses and dissolve their unsuccesful branches? Most of the time it is related to strategy and such, companies need profit, but profit may not be the only measure used in the process of determinate whether the strategy is successful or not, so a company may keep a bad branch around, as long as it is serving a purpose for the company's overall strategy >In the case of Sony they could easily redirect the ressources and employees towards the other branches. It is not as easy as you think, there tons of variables to consider when shutting down and tons of variables to consider when redirecting people and resources. Even minor things might give huge headaches.
Exclusivity would be great for gta. I worked on current gen V and in development we could get 60fps on ps4, 45 on xbone, so both got capped at 30. Multiplats are always dragged down by the weaker platform.
Ian Collins
Which Sony game is censored in Japan? And how can you censor something that was made by you for you first, before you decide to circulate it overseas? That doesn't make sense. You censor something that wasn't censored in the first place. Otherwise it's called the original game.
Easton Peterson
Still traumatised everyday over BotW. Holy shit lmao
John Morgan
Pirates BTFO. Lol, can’t wait for those fags to off themselves.
Andrew Price
it did around as well as nintendo expected, new stuff is still coming out, but no one on here talks about them outside of shitposting since everyone basically knew they aren't the target audience for this.
Chase Adams
Honestly this seems like a waste of money.
Joseph Lee
This is the hight quality posting sonyfags always talk about.
>Western devs who are more dynamic Idk, for the last 20 years I've seen more western companies bankrupted or get sold into the like of EA shit and never make anything ever again with their IP
Christopher Taylor
I don't think Jack & Jill or Paul Blart 2 was as profitable as The Last of Us
Hunter Wright
>More money than sense master race Good thing I studied hard, I can't imagine what it's like not just buying the next group of launch consoles. >Exclusives Pfffffhahahaha
Aiden Turner
Are all Nintendo fans this autistic and genuinely pathetic?
Check again, point being its not a loses for Sony. Those movies are cheap to make and highly profitable
Jonathan Robinson
? You are aware PSNow is the biggest game streaming service out there? They didn't buy out Gaikai and Onlive for nothing you retard. MS and NIN just went ahead and bought out a few of their own just about last year.
Dylan Diaz
Somebody got the link to the pics sonyfags posted literally hundreds of times?
David Evans
Oh nononononono lads, what the fuck
Jacob Hill
just because you're a zoomer who needs games spoonfed to you with massive advertising campaigns doesn't mean everyone is.
I'm not taking sides here. Both sides are ruining this board with these shitty ass wojaks here. Christ almighty stop acting like your favorite corporations making money and being greedy assholes is a good thing. They are not your friends. They do not care about you. You are just a walking talking WALLET.
No you'll tell me because you claimed it, not me. It's on you to show me.
Carson Nguyen
apparently they are considering in selling Sony pictures. Which is funny because youd think they would sell their mobile division instead.
Benjamin Gray
>Sony doesn't advertise games >nobody knows about them so barely anyone actually buys them >Sony stops giving a shit about those games >everyone makes "WHY DIDN'T YOU BUY X GAME?!?!?!?!!" threads this happens with most of Sony's franchises and this is why everyone gives sony shit.
Logan Ross
>literally in a thread about sony >can't talk about sony But Nintendo is fair to talk about? How SEETHING are you?
Jaxson Walker
So, we can all agree that Snoyboys are far and beyond the worst fan base on Yea Forums, which is really saying something?
Ryder Williams
These.
First parties also don't typically buy publishers or developers with lots of multiplatform tools and experience, because it raises their price but is useless to a first party.
Adrian Reyes
Sonyfags are always in meltdown.
Kevin Ross
Smash Ultimate fans are worse.
Jaxson Ortiz
t. Nintenlard Fuck off back to your Smash thread
Josiah Carter
Somehow even on positive/neutral news. They are permanently triggered
Elijah Clark
meanwhile, in reality: >aa game doesn't get aaa advertising campaign >somehow, this is shocking to you >instead of keeping up with new releases, you whine and blame sony for your laziness >meanwhile, nintendo kills off tons of great franchises like f-zero, custom robo, starfy, advance wars, etc. and gets a free pass for it
Brayden Cooper
How are you coping with those back-to-back 97s schizo loser?