Sony is running out of money for acquisitions

lol

it benefits the owners and highers ups, not the grunt workers. notch took a fat billion paycheck and told everyone cya.

With the obvious lack of monopoly laws being enforced, they have to buy companies for self-preservation, since Microsoft is literally buying up corporations, IPs, and subsidies.

We already know what happens when Microsoft controls over 70% of a market, that remaining 30% is blacklisted.

>it benefits the owners and highers ups, not the grunt workers. notch took a fat billion paycheck and told everyone cya.

Food for thought. Supposed all the grunt workers and low earners all died. How are those higher ups going to support themselves? I swear there's a sci-fi story based around that.

What sony 1st party games are on unreal engine?

thats quite enough to buy another one or two porting to pc studios

They are still able to buy small studios.

well one is public trading is a huge cash injection and continuous revenue just from people buying/trading shares
and then when you do sell out the offer usually involves giving you a few million/billion so you dont really get fired, you just move to another company since you already have executive on your resume

Enough to buy Square Enix? Their IPs are pretty massive.

Even though they're not making much money.

They can raise more money as needed, although it isnt as cheap as it was very recently.

They invested in the toolset and engine development. They will get a slice out of every Unreal license in the future.

Square Enix is worth about $4.8 billion

That is more than enough money to purchase Square Enix, which would benefit Sony greatly for the expertise in MMO and mobile markets.
They bought Bungie for their expertise in Games as a Service, and because Bungie was already going to expand the Destiny IP into film and television (they hired the creative director behind Arcane) and the only other company I can see that would benefit Sony would be Capcom for their expertise in fighting games (of which Sony now's owns the biggest tournament in the world) and online games like MonHun, while also expanding their catalog with a ton of prestige franchises.

Companies like that are just given money to further political agendas. Profit is largely meaningless.

They overpaid for Bungie, the most utterly useless and retarded acquisition ever. They could have bought Eidos with a bunch of iconic ip's and potential for less than half the money. Also no substitute for Call of Duty... They are fucked.

That's just market cap, the buying price would probably be more than double that

It's kind of embarrassing to watch you retarded faggots talk about this shit.
These acquisitions have very little to do with games. They have more to do with what the companies offer. Bungie has a ton of success in the GaaS genre and Sony wants in on that. Square has a lot of success in the MMO and mobile markets and wants in on that.

Eidos made less than 1% return on investment for Square Enix.

Please stop trying to talk about these things if you don't understand them.

Why can't they put money into games instead?

>they already have more games than the competition
They literally have fucking nothing on the horizon.

Why does Sony need a substitute for a game it will continue to get for the foreseeable future? The next 5 CoD games are confirmed to be on PS5, and the franchise is already floundering after losing hundreds of millions of players since last year.

Most of the good ones are Japanese and they clearly have no interest.

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>The next 5 CoD games are confirmed to be on PS5
contract? where is this guaranteed

>of which Sony now's owns the biggest tournament in the world
Well for now.

>The next 5 CoD games are confirmed to be on PS5,
There's no source for this.

Literally takes 10 seconds to google you lazy faggot.

The only thing they said is that they would honor existing contracts. Not a thing about how many games that entails.

So do you breath manually or...?

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Unreal

You are the type of person who falls for those fake headlines that gets posted here.

why the fuck did they buy bungie for 4 billion? they don't have any valuable IPs and all the employees are just gonna leave and make new studio just like last time

Nothing about 5 games.
Maybe if you breathe manually your brain would get more oxygen.

user FF14 by itself would probably cost $2-4 billion.

Sony only paid 2 billion for Bungie. The extra 1.1 billion was an employee retention bonus.

Destiny is the most successful new videogame IP of all time and one of the most successful Games as a Service games. They were bought for their expertise in that field, which Sony has very publically stated they wish to expand into.

you are such a genuine fucking retard, the games are about to be announced. look at their first party studios and then have a look at when their last game was. do you think they get paid for just sitting on their fucking thumbs for years? its about to be summer you mong

Please stop talking about subjects you don't understand. You only make yourself look stupid.

>the games are about to be announced
Uh-huh. That's what you delusional fanboys said last year and the year before.

>He breathes automatically
Tell me you can't swim without telling me you can't swim

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yeah, companies like to have a yearly showcase. seriously you are incredibly dense

Alright $1-2 billion then. Because that game's sequel, whenever it will come, will garner the same playerbase or even more. It's currently SE's most profitable property yet.

Square Enix, the ENTIRE COMPANY, is valued at around 4 billion.

Sony can very easily purchase SE if they want to.

Days Gone

Yeah just like how nothing was announced last year.

Investing in music in current year.

>Sony can very easily purchase SE if they want to.
No, no they can't, they don't sell for the market price user. They sell above it.

You told me to stop talking about subjects I don't understand because it makes me look stupid, yet you look like the stupid one, user.

Market cap is just a rough estimate of how much a company is worth. Unless SE is suffering through a very bad internal crisis like ActiBlizz was, they'll be worth more than market cap estimates. I'm telling you SE's market value, which is way higher than $4 billion. At the very minimum $5 billion, because like I said, FF14 is a juggernaut all on its own.

youtube.com/watch?v=T5VtfD2i3rc

Was this supposed to prove your point?
It's all just ports, multiplats and games we knew about.

>games we knew about
you asked for game announcements, theres multiple in that showcase

Man, Troontendos really do shit their pants over Sony, don't they?

>retards keep saying Sony has no games coming out

>God of War Ragnarok
>KOTOR remake
>Spider-Man 2
>Wolverine
>Naughty Dog currently working on a new Uncharted, a TLOU remake, TLOU3, and a new fantasy IP
>Insomniac making a multiplayer game based in the Marvel universe
>Guerilla Games working on a new SOCOM with ex-Rainbow Six devs
>Haven studios just recently acquired and have been working on a game for a year and a half

I can't imagine the pain of being an Xbox fan at this point.

>theres multiple in that showcase
Yes for ports, multiplats and games we knew about.

do you know what a game announcement is? holy shit you are retarded

>God Of War DLC Written by Anthony Burch
>Kennedy-Era Star Wars
>Capeshit
>Rumors
Top fukken kek. This is more embarrassing than Horizon and GT 7 flopping so badly Sony doesn't even mention them in the financial call
>Buh Xtrannies!
Reaching. Still no games compared to the PC+Switch master race

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My fav part was the billion dollars the paid for Crunchyroll which owns fucking nothing. It's like buying tiktok. You don't get revenue from anything tiktok users do so you just wasted money cause someone said orange man didn't like it

they will just cope with muh movie games. even if that were true, movie games beat no games at all/games stuck in dev hell for eternity aka microsoft games
why are you pcfags stuck up on exclusives anyway? your logic is self defeating because theres barely any pc exclusives anymore. and at that point getting a ps5 is just more performance for the money compared to a pc

Paying a billion dollars to become basically the only company that provides streaming anime and J dramas to most of the world seems pgud to me user.

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>basically the only company that provides streaming anime and J dramas to most of the world
o_0

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