Sure, I'm just saying that it is well within their means if they thought it would be worth it, and it would maybe even make sense if they want to become the top dog in anime production. From Software would just be a bonus. Many are underestimating how rich they are. This is not Sony from ten years ago when they were losing money left and right.
Funchyroll and then they can have Ron Funches be the new mascot.
This would mean Sony would own the Dragonball TV franchise if this gies through, right?
Sony already owns Funimation, and thus the international distribution to DB.
Not in the slightest. The Ven Chart for those audiences barely overlap.
A top rated Netflix show probably gets more views in a week than those two combined do in 6 months. Probably more.
True. I suppose I was looking at it from the perspective of converting PlayStation users to PS+ users if Crunchyroll and Funimation was attached but even that's miniscule compared to what Netflix currently has in terms of market share.
The ownership of 90% of the western anime market, its hard to compete in TV these days but anime they would be the only source.
How much ad revenue does that translate to though.
I mean who really knows, but crunchyroll is doing numbers. I think they can easily grow those numbers, anime is a good medium that is just becoming more and more popular.
Well, they did do something last year.
Sony could pay a 50% premium for Kadokawa and only use about 10% of cash-on-hand currently, FYI. Its all about 1. if Sony wants to and 2. if the owner of Kadokawa (the founder and CEO is still the principle shareholder I believe) wants to sell.
We don't know.
I mean, Anime in the west was at its best a couple years ago before Sony bought Funimation and broke just about every content licencing sharing agreement they had. Just a few years ago the companies were working together, pooling their money for heavy hitter and niche shows, doing original content and sharing their content on each other's platforms, plus under VRV.
Given that they just spent almost a billion on this, I"m not sure how what you laid out makes them more $$$ unless with that comes a gigantic growth in the number of people who subscribe to the service (in an era where people are getting tired of having so many streaming services). Like just consolidating Funimation and Crunchyroll subs into one sub without raising the price is going to cost them a lot of money because they lose all the people that subscribe to both because of the reasons you just described.
I want to say this was done around a year or so ago...
It makes you think that they may buy anime production studios as well in the near future just to have more content be made by themselves akin to Netflix and Disney+
it would be nice to not have to pay two subs. I missed out on the days of VRV.
There is no actual talk. Just supposition that because they share a business interest then Sony must want to buy them. If thats the case the primary interest would be the Manga business and FromSoft a secondary one. But they are not.
I don't think Kadokawa makes sense for anyone outside of Sony (and that's already extremely unlikely). There's too many extraneous businesses.
A lot of the people in the comments have no idea how monopolies work.
