Sony nears acquisition of US anime streaming service Crunchyroll
Entertainment giant could pay more than $950m as talks wind up with parent AT&T
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Doubt, i think they will try to market the hell out of it to have a higher number of subscribers, 3 million paying ones is really low when you have 70 million people not paying anything.
Sony is becoming a major player in anime. If this deal goes through they'll own the following:
Aniplex (Animation studio)
Bibili (Chinese company, Sony have a minor stake in it)
Crunchyroll
Funimation
It'll be interesting to see what they continue to do. I could definitely see them continue acquiring companies for IP-based content, for example, Kadokawa or Shounen Jump.(Obviously won't happen, but the only example I can think of)
It's going to be interesting to see how Sony plays into the anime industry during the upcoming years.
Aniplex (Animation studio)
Bibili (Chinese company, Sony have a minor stake in it)
Crunchyroll
Funimation
It'll be interesting to see what they continue to do. I could definitely see them continue acquiring companies for IP-based content, for example, Kadokawa or Shounen Jump.(Obviously won't happen, but the only example I can think of)
It's going to be interesting to see how Sony plays into the anime industry during the upcoming years.
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This would give Sony like 95% of the anime streaming market outside of Japan.
I don't see that happening.
I've said it before, but if this makes the streaming services go back to the Crunchy/Funi deal I'd be happy. Funi gets the dubs, Crunchy keeps the subs. It was perfect back then. It's like the Funi app was made for that and they never updated it when the deal ended. Really sucks.
If they get CR they would basically own the overseas anime market .
Going to be interesting to see what happens .
Going to be interesting to see what happens .
Oops! Sorry for the misinformation, I edited my original comment. Thanks for letting me know :)
Sony does not need two different anime subscription services. At least one will be subsumed into the other.
I could see funimation just becoming a dubbing studio and it all being rolled into crunchyroll
God no , don't make me pay for ps+/ all the ps+ subscribers pay for a bunch of anime they aren't interested in.
It's a video streaming service, why on earth would they make it exclusive?
This has nothing to do with Bethesda -___-
Given how much it's costing these services to produce and acquire content, it seems within the ballpark. Crunchyroll as a brand is synonymous with anime, and then you get all their licensing deals as part of it. Sony can basically take it over and not have to do much of anything, and boom they have a niche market for streaming revenue
Fucking anime.
...wtf is this. This isn't about video games at all lol. Ofc crunchyroll isn't gonna exclusive on Sony devices. Why would you think that.
Interesting. They had said they didn't want to sell in the last Crunchyroll update so what changed?
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Preorders sold out between this post and the new news. Someone didnt wanna disappoint this holiday on the board