They already own Santa Monica Studios. This thread is about Take 2 ;)
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Rumor/Speculation: Market speculates that Sony could buy Take Two (SEE UPDATE IN OP)
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Well, the worldwide ps vs xbox sales are like 2:1, on this board the ratio seems more like at least 5:1 in owners and interest. On average the OT for a sony exclusive is probably 10X as large as for any MS exclusive, while the end user sales are typically not nearly so slanted. For me, Halo Infinite has more appeal than Sony's entire upcoming lineup and it's not close, so different strokes for different folks.
Also Sea of Thieves is actually an innovative Gaas which is the future, and was a pretty big success, on twitch and elsewhere. So far Sony is holding the line on old school single player games, but I'm a bit skeptical how long they can continue as the only holdout.
Anyways like MS buying EA, I 99.99999% doubt this will happen, for the same reasons. MS buying EA removes 2/3 of Madden' or Fifa's (80% of Fifa)audience, that or they allow first party to publish on a competing platform...seems unlikely. Other than sort of corner cases like Minecraft.
Sony is in a more muscular position for sure, but I dont think they can even blink at losing 1/3 of 100 million sales or whatever GTA 5 did. The other issue is I believe third parties tend to be more innovative, most software sales are third party games, look at top ten charts it's COD, Fifa, BF, Madden, Assassins Creed, GTA, assorted Ubisoft titles, year after year in the core market. If GTA went first party I'd have my doubts it could be, GTA anymore. Another example for me is Cyberpunk, I'm really jazzed about that. You cant get that budget and scale on first party.
What's the sense of buying Activision Blizzard?
COD is the strongest thing they got. WoW is in decline, Overwatch is kind of played out, no longer have Bungie/Destiny, Diablo 4 is no where in sight. On top of that Kotick doesnr deserve that type of out.
C'mon now, most people, myself included, are saying it's pure bullshit and others are saying how bad it'll be.
You know what the tone would be. It would be pure outrage. Religion, gaming and politics. They have a lot in common. People come to a conclusion regardless of facts and fight hard to justify their beliefs.
PlayStation agents going to PC/Xbox owners houses and burning their discs of GTAV. All digital copies brick the systems they're on.
Thats already here, without Sony's input beyond MLB, lol.
This thread, hilarious.
No? It's not that easy to turn such an enormous amount of investment into liquid assets, which is what Sony is basically offering. This is how "cashing out" works.
This would be the worst thing in video games for everyone. I hate exclusives so much, I don't like my PS4 at all. I'd rather play games on my switch, or my PC.
Since 2016, every single Microsoft game has released for PC. They are 100% dedicated to supporting PC, or more specifically Windows, as a platform. This is the difference between Sony and Microsoft in the context of potentially purchasing a company which shepherds some very beloved PC gaming series. Microsoft have a vested interest in games coming to Windows. Sony does not. Sony seems to go out of their way to prevent and/or delay games coming to Windows when they have the power to do so. They are in the business of trying to sell Sony consoles, after all -- although changing market conditions may drive them to be more flexible in future.
Aren't most of the well known games on the Switch exclusives.
There's no way in hell MS would let that happen. They would counter offer more.
It would also not to be in Take Two's benefit to go exclusive. They sell way more copies of their games by having them on competing platforms.
It would also not to be in Take Two's benefit to go exclusive. They sell way more copies of their games by having them on competing platforms.
HOLY SHIT
I can only respect the balls if this is true
But R* extended game experiences aren't enough for me
I can only respect the balls if this is true
But R* extended game experiences aren't enough for me
Some of you are way too shook over this clearly not possible rumor. It's also really funny to see the people jumping through mental hoops to justify one side buying up studios as being great and the other side being vilified for the notion of buying up studios or publishers.
Btw, take two isn't just RDR and GTA. Sure they make loads of cash but they have some really deep ips.
Btw, take two isn't just RDR and GTA. Sure they make loads of cash but they have some really deep ips.
Yeah, I don't like Switch games being exclusives either. But the difference for Switch is that its portable, so it provides a better and different experience.
LOL!! Love it. Serious talk though, highly doubt either will happen.
R* is the reason i didnt believe this for a second. you can't put the $ they put into games to only sell on one platform.
the budget would have to get cut way way back and you wouldn't get close to the same game
Hasn't this been debunked as not being true. Wonder what's keeping thread alive. Has there been something new?
I think it's largely because Microsoft has been pushing more and more towards play anywhere, so their games are going to be on PC too. So even if they don't give a shit about XBox, those games will still be playable to them so they're unaffected.
This was my immediate emotional response.
Sony treading on sacred PC gaming ground here if the news is true. Civilization, XCOM, Railroad Tycoon, Pirates.
Fuck outta here Sony.
This seems completely ridiculous, and why would we want this to happen? Consolidation of major third party publishers into first party benefits only a small subset of the total gaming audience.
I almost exclusively play on my ps4, and I don't play any games produced by take two, and I still wouldn't want them to be exclusive to ps4 if I did.
I almost exclusively play on my ps4, and I don't play any games produced by take two, and I still wouldn't want them to be exclusive to ps4 if I did.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/0...an-unfounded-rumor-of-sony-acquiring-take-two
"Speaking with IGN, Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, said of this potential purchase "I think it's highly unlikely and so does my trader," referring to Kulina who was originally misquoted. According to Pachter, there was "chatter" among trading desks trying to determine why Take-Two's stock had risen, and this idea of a potential purchase was one such idea thrown around. But it wasn't coming from a concrete source despite MarketWatch's original citation of it. "
So basically someone saw take two stock rise and wondered what the reason for it was and pulled things out of their asses?
"Speaking with IGN, Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, said of this potential purchase "I think it's highly unlikely and so does my trader," referring to Kulina who was originally misquoted. According to Pachter, there was "chatter" among trading desks trying to determine why Take-Two's stock had risen, and this idea of a potential purchase was one such idea thrown around. But it wasn't coming from a concrete source despite MarketWatch's original citation of it. "
So basically someone saw take two stock rise and wondered what the reason for it was and pulled things out of their asses?
Whoever made that rumor probably is thinking to himself, "Men like us, we never get back the things we love"
Allegedly the guy outright send out an email in which he stated that he heard Sony is in advanced board level discussions to acquire Take Two. There's some huge BS going on here
So either the email is legit and the guy is simply making up rumors, or the email is a fake and someone is trying to ruin his career.
Each NBA game would stop functioning a year and a half after release
What's the implication here?
this thread is funny as fuck
More likely the email is legit and he personally considers that when he says "unconfirmed no source" it allows him to repeat any sort of hearsay without any responsibility.
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