WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH SONY???

They better fucking not.
Only reason I still have my PS4 is because BB is jailed to it.
I feel like they'd fuck XIV if they got their grubby globohomo hands on it too.

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Just like they were on the verge of buying Capcom, Atlus, and Konami, right?

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Jim Ryan is an imbecile and a clown. There won’t be a ps6

you're right. they're going to skip to ps9

There will probably be a ps6 and maybe even a 7. Most people still aren't willing to buy a computer when they could just buy a console.

Maybe Square didn't want to sell to Sony and make them platform exclusive? Sony worked on Avengers with Crystal and they didn't hate each other or anything so I don't know why Sony would just pass on this incredibly cheap deal unless Square just didn't want it.

Wtf i hate sony now unironically

Yeah Bungie was a retarded purchase. Did Sony think they owned Halo?

Sony can't afford one of those, let alone both.

Imagine having to give sony money for every future Fromsoft and SquareEnix game.

Square was hurting for cash so bad they sold off those studios for dirt cheap. They are putting that 300 million into block chain games. How do you think that will turn out?

Who?

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>"You mean they dont own Donkey Kong?"

History repeats itself

I love the delusional Sony fans, for months they've been screaming Sony is in the process of buying square enix and/or fromsoft. Just like they've been saying Bloodborne 2 would be announced every year since the first game was release. It's hilariously pathetic.

>immediately spent it all pushing crypto schemes

fags selfpromoting

I heard Destiny is absolute kill. Was it related to SONY? Tell me more about it

>new Deus Ex from the company that used to be THQ Nordic
Hey, I'll take it. Anything's better than squeenix. Except EA.

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Why the fuck would they buy Square at this point? Should've bought all that shit they just sold.

Did you really expect anything else from them these days?

t-t-this year for sure!!!

There's gonna be a PS6. Just a heads up tho, you won't get one.

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>Most people still aren't willing to buy a computer when they could just buy a console.
In the next ~5-8 years, I expect a console-like device for running PC games. May or may not be Valve, but someone will do it. Consoles already require installs, updates, all the stupid bullshit that makes PC games unattractive. Might as well cut the middleman, all it takes is solving some UX issues to make things seamless and tidy for the end user.

Even as an xbox only guy, this shit is cringe.

Yes they can you stupid fucking tendie. It’s not gonna happen though cause Sony is retarded and abandoned Japan last gen.

>$3,600,000,000
>~900 employees
>1 studio
>2 IPs (Marathon, Destiny)
>5 games (Marathon 1-3, Destiny 1-2)

>$300,000,000
>~1100 employees
>3 studios
>20+ IPs (including Deus Ex and Tomb Raider)
>50+ games (including all Deus Ex and Tomb Raider games)

From isn’t going anywhere. What insiders are you talking about? What would they do with Square Enix? The only IPs that are compatible with their “aesthetic” just got sold off by SE for pennies.

It was, Sony was desperate to counter Microsoft getting Acti-Blizzard. i think Sony execs also saw it as a pride thing, by buying the creator Halo to get back at Microsoft since Halo caused Sony so much pain in the 7th gen.

Why is sony SO BAD at making deals bros?

Woh I just realized something... It's not that strange hearing about the next gen of consoles already.
>2-3 years in, it's still impossible to get either console due to """"shortages""""

Insiders have been wrong about Sony a lot recently, i feel like a lot of them are just fanboys hoping for the best.

>The only IPs that are compatible with their “aesthetic” just got sold off by SE for pennies.
They didn't sell Life is Strange or Forspoken (which is Japanese), Tomb Raider competes with Uncharted, and Deus Ex isn't compatible with Sony at all. However, Sony would have wanted the studios.

The same insiders saying snoy was going to buy silent hill, konami and the souls brand last year?

Why did Sony buy Bungie for so much and for such lopsided terms? They own them but Bungie gets to remain autonomous and multiplatform. Bungie only had a couple IPs and one of then, Marathon, they can’t do much with since it’s canonically part of the Halo universe and they don’t own Halo.

All of the studios Square Enix sold mainly focused on single player games. Bungies has a successful live service game and those bring in so much more money than single player games. Why do you think Square Enix kept trying to make live services like Avengers and Babylon's Fall game despite failing every time?

Crystal got like 3% profit from game sales and Eidos was less than a percent supposedly. They were barely in the black. Definitely not guaranteed money makers.

LIS is a dead brand due to it's shitty sequel

How bad was the sequel?

And Bungie is? Destiny 2 is literally on life support. There is a reason why Activision break up deal with them.

Only few live service games are successful all the rest are either dead or on life support including Destiny 2.

That's not how those numbers work, the studios economics are integrated with Square Enix, which is why the revenue and expenses were almost identical. Eidos Montreal also didn't release a game until the very end of the period shown.

Last I heard they were making 300 million a year or something. Do they really cost that much to maintain?

They wanted a GAAS and something multiplayer after MS announced the acquisition. Even if the talks were happening for months, i bet the Activision thing made things faster and Sony had to do something.

As an LoK fan, this is incredible news. I don't think Sony would do anything with the IP but Embracer/THQ Nordic have continued Darksiders and are willing to go the AA route, where I think Sony only really wants cheap ass indies or massive AAA games.

The fact that it was specifically mentioned in the press release makes me feel way more hopeful than I have in years.

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Lmao even Japan realizes the lost cause the western ips are now

>Why do you think Square Enix kept trying to make live services like Avengers and Babylon's Fall game despite failing every time?

Idk why Square Enix just doesn't make FF Genshin clone, it would be very successful and make them ton of money.

Yeah. That's surely why.

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Destiny 2 is in a much better state now than it was towards the end of Activision's involvement with the franchise. Destiny 2 rumored to make between $100-$500 million a year.

Let me remind you that Embracer also includes Koch Media and Gearbox. Embracer is a bunch of company that grouped together to become the new Ubisoft. Cheap piece of shit games, AAA piece of shit games, and rarely a good budget game. They're gonna turn Tomb Raider into Assassin's Creed, but with waterfalls instead of hay.

They can ignore Marathon and Halo connections but it's a pointless IP to use, it wasn't even that popular back in the day.

has square made anything worthwhile in a decade?

Destiny 2 is extremely successful financially, it prints hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Activision was extremely stupid for refusing to accept any change in business model that wasn't numbered progressed resetting sequel every other year. You can see this mindset blowing up in their face again with Overwatch 2.

However that said, Sony buying Bungie was extremely retarded. Effectively burned $4 billion that they will see zero benefit from for at least many years. Destiny remains multiplatform forever, Playstation won't be getting exclusive content, and Bungie has another multiplat franchise in the works potentially launching in 2025 as a deal with some Chinese company. Maybe at that point Bungie is freed up to make exclusive games for Sony, maybe.

>source: sony fanboy's ass

No awards and it got blasted for promoting unhealthy relationships and ideas. Whoever wrote it is probably a legit sociopath.

They're retarded. They got the rights to make a live service Avengers game and they chose Crystal Dynamics, a studio that has only released single player games up until then, to develop it.

You fucking dumbasses. The only thing this means is that square thought those ips were only worth $300 mil. If it had been Sony buying those the amount would've been the same. If embracer whoever the fuck those twats are had tried to buy Bungie they'd be paying 3b too

I'm sure a Marathon single player/match-based multiplayer reboot on ps4/5 and PC would blow Halo out of the water. Even just through curiosity. It only needs to be competent at this point. Just take your time doing it.

that is corruption

Sony doesn't care that much about Destiny, they care about the people that made Destiny. A big share of those 3.6 billions is going to bonuses and raises to keep all the staff. They want Bungie to teach their other studios to make GAAS shit.

Time for Laura to mint digital treasures you earn by playing the game baybeee

There will be a PS6. But it'll be a fully cloud streaming console, using cutdown Xbox SeX 2 hardware streaming from a Microsoft datacenter. Sony already has taken the ultimate cuck and pays Microsoft to run their cloud services, it is only a matter of time before console HW joins those ranks too

-3 years in, it's still impossible to get either console due to """"shortages""""
its only been 1.5 years though, and SeX is shipping out more units these days. I've had a few sitting on shelves for a couple weeks at Best Buy.

Sony didn't buy Bungie for IPs they bought them for the developers. Bungie's main purpose is to help with cross platform development and live services and all of this was literally stated in the statement they themselves released. Get the fuck out of my hobby you illiterate mongoloids

I mean, still better than squeenix shelving it indefinitely.

Insider here, that's absolute bullshit. Sony would have been more interested in gaining Square Enix and Eidos. Considering the history of Tomb Raider on Sony consoles.

Kadokawa Games literally would have to be purchased for them to get Fromsoft. Even then, Kadokawa Games would need their entire boardroom fired and cleared out for real progress. These are the same guys that regularly pull Danganronpa and other titles from digital marketplaces.

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That won't go over well because Destiny is successful inspite of Bungie's handling of the live service aspects, not because of them. If another studio copied their systems and approaches to use for some other live service game it would be DOA

bandai namco wont allow it, from is their golden goose

Bungie has lost a lot of talent, you can't really create those early Halo days again.
Sony execs are fucking idiots that think it's 2007.

Because what sony really wants is that sweet, scam live service money. They didnt get bungie for Destiny specifically, only for their know how in the bussiness model

Xiv is already a tranny paradise, nothing to tuin

> Definitely not guaranteed money makers.
yeah thanks to square enix, now they actually have a chance to make actual money

You forget the context of things. Microsoft decided to drop a fatwah on Actiblizz to buy them up, and Sony panic bought Bungie as a response.

>Buying shit that is worth far more than what they have in the bank
They're not buying them, at most they'll just pester them for exclusives again.

>spending billions out of panic
Sony is even dumber than I thought

I find anyone celebrating any of these acquisitions disgusting. You're cheering on giant companies becoming even bigger, and it never results in anything good for the consumer.