Update from November 20. In a separate message Kadokawa Confirmed that Sony Group Corporation expressed a desire to purchase a media group. However, the final decision has not yet been made.
Original news. According to Reuters sources, Sony He is in negotiations on the purchase with the Japanese group of media companies Kadokawa Corporation – Among her "daughters" including the authors of Elden Ring from Fromsoftware. A similar acquisition Sony intends to expand its portfolio of interactive (and not only!) entertainment. Both firms refused to comment.
Sony already owns 2 % of the shares Kadokawa, and also has a share (14.09 %) in it belongs Fromsoftware. The Chinese giant Tencent, By the way, there are also FROMS shares – 16.25 %.
Under the wing Kadokawa Other studios are located. For example, Tenchu authors from Acquire, Responsible for RPG Maker from GOTCHA GOTCHA Games And the team Spike Chunsoft, Giving the world Shiren the Wanderer. Also, media holding is engaged in manga, anime and films.
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I hope this does not happen. Forced PSN, and departure from the Russian Federation in the region. The last thing I would like to see in the games of Fromom.
I would not want another Bloodborne. In a bad sense
Let’s buy FROMS, close them and make Concord 2
When they learned that the Souls are http://prime-casino.uk/ action from 3 faces with the plot about the family.
And where have difficult times go with the need to “optimize” thousands of employees? Or, Sonya under one of the offices found oil and the company suddenly called money not just on a stride and not even a publisher, but a whole, so that it, media holding?
Maybe because Mikes and Sonya have a different policy regarding the release of games? If T -shirts release all the games for all platforms on the first day and even in the Gampass, then Sonya (I’m not talking about the fact that Sonya has not been released lately, endless remasters have not been considered) implementing a critical exclusive policy and a very efficient PSN. Therefore, God forbid, my own sincerely beloved by me will be locked on a curling iron. Fromsoftware is one of the few in the industry who has an endless credit of trust and an almost impeccable reputation, and it will be really sad if they begin to clip a monotonous tractomotine about spiritual experiences and hide and seek in the grass
Adding mandatory PSN to Elden and Souls that will finally kill online?
Well, they will buy, get the rights to works, and optimize, firing 90% of employees.
It will turn out well that? Binding to PSN in remasters/remakes of all saucalics as in go to Tsushima, etc?
They are a publisher of most of their games, but not the owner
I hope the deal will not take place, I do not want Fromov to be forced to do a sausal on the choirson
Or they will be blocked as Japan Studio and a bunch of other Japanese studios.
Yes, yes, Sonya is famous for its "optimization of bought studios" 😁
Sony continues to monopolize the anime market. If we do it, then it is interesting under what conditions will be the forms? Will be built into PS Studios or continue on their own?
An idea for a billion dollars, which may go wrong? XD
This is a normal life of corporations – the jacket managers are always under a harsh supervision and a chair under them oh, how they swing – they eat a very large part of the salary budget and from them in return are expected to compensate for this part. I do not like to speculate with rumors, but there are things that are already visible and based on my personal experience in high posts in corporations (less than Mycrosoft, but at the level of the entire group, that is, more than the average LLC), I can make some assumptions.
In addition, the company in which I work now, leads some of the clients of customers, where there is a portfolio of the association of small shareholders of Microsoft, so part of the financial data for Borda, is also available to me, but this is no secret – such reports are published openly, I just have access to already generalized and easier to read information.
If briefly, allotted was already initially dissatisfied with the noise around the purchase of activist, so they expected the results from the transaction in the short term. One of the KPI was attracting subscribers to Gampass. According to the latest reports, it looks that their number has definitely not increased, although it has not decreased – it fluctuates in one line. What are the deadlines to correct the situation is already closed information, but all such companies have a reporting period until May. If earlier the game unit was small (regarding the company) and did not affect the value of the shares, now the purchase of the activist has grown and the share of the unit – if in May the KPI is not fulfilled in May, that is, to admit that the transaction does not justify itself, then this will affect the cost of the shares and capitalization.
Who is found guilty? Current CEO, at least, if not all management.
The deal was beneficial to the cat – he just mired in the scandal at that time and left beautifully, with all the bonuses, without dismissal
Gwin family, Marika family.
Yes, these are games with the plot about the family.
Class, if the deal burns out, then all the games of the FROMS will become Sonya’s exclusives, like demons and Bloodborn. Fuck, hands off my favorite series!