I am so glad the console wars are back, this hobby is more entertaining with the outlandish things people ask for than it was last generation
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Twitter responds to MS buying Bethesda by...asking Sony to buy Konami!
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This just highlights the lack of thought the average consumer really puts into any of this beyond brand loyalty. People will prob continue to cheer as bigger companies just continue to get bigger and we've no more mid tier/small companies in the space.
I mean they should be, anything can be bought up next.
Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Sega, Capcom, nothing's out of bounds now and they're worried about missing out games on their system of choice.
Thankfully there's still under 2 months until launch so people can make informed decisions and finalise or cancel pre-orders.
Chances are ultra slim, but I'd love to see the meltdown/reactions! Shit, MS is strapped so I think they have a better chance than Sony
I agree. As I said in the other thread, the established franchises will probably be timed exclusives, in line with MS' policy with Minecraft. New IPs will be xbox/pc exclusive.
I saw rockstar trending aswell. The price tag on that would be astronomical
I mean, I could understand maybe buying the silent hill or mgs IP but I'm sure Konami would be happy to license it out and do nothing
I mean, I could understand maybe buying the silent hill or mgs IP but I'm sure Konami would be happy to license it out and do nothing
I mean, they would be if Konami did anything with their IP. Probably why people want someone to buy them.
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Those companies are great but in this context they put out games already ...and good ones .Konami well...is Konami . Can you imagine Sony getting a hold of Silent Hill, Castlevania ,MGS? A Blue Point remake of Silent Hill one .. Oooff..need more BP meds ..
I'm not saying anyone platform holder getting these franchises is good but it's probably the only way we'll ever see them again ...in your house anyway ( unless you want a pachinko in your gaming room)
I just want someone, anyone, to buy MGS and Silent Hill off them so konami can pump out pachinkos for the rest of time in peace and let kojima make silent hills
Well that would be the worst purchase ever.
Also I hate to see things like this happen. Stop cheering on big companies buying other big companies. It's the same with WB selling to Apple, who sells itself to Amazon, who sells itself to Disney. Big companies get bigger, while becoming the only place to buy anything, while giving the customer the illusion of choice by making alternative products in alternate names.
Also I hate to see things like this happen. Stop cheering on big companies buying other big companies. It's the same with WB selling to Apple, who sells itself to Amazon, who sells itself to Disney. Big companies get bigger, while becoming the only place to buy anything, while giving the customer the illusion of choice by making alternative products in alternate names.
People really don't get acquisitions are not just to "get stuff you like", but to enable certain business strategies. Randomly getting Metal Gear, Castelvania and Bomberman IP would be fine I guess but its not exactly going to do much for Sony, and certainly is not even in the same ballpark of the motivations behind the ZeniMax acquisition.
Granted, it's not like Sony themselves are particularly good at managing their own legacy IP. Buying out Konami would probably only end up in a few Konami IP seeing meaningful revivals, while the rest would still ultimately continue to rot.
I think anybody who games on a non-MS platform is. Why wouldn't they? They could be losing access to their favorite series' unless they buy another console
If I ever see this thread go up on Era confirming the purchase, I'm never clicking lol
I'm still bothered by Sony fanboys a bit. I'll never forget that Resident evil 4 fiasco in the Ps2/GameCube era. I saw a Sony player say he hope Sony buy Rockstar as retaliation. That comment caused me to cringe.
What do you get when buying the gaming arm from Konami? Sure you get some IP, but no developers or games in development. Sony would need to bolster their studios on their own to make this worth while. Capcom would be a much more realistic option if they had the cash and interest.
I'm more talking about asking sony to buy other game companies as payback.
They would only buy the gaming portion which has to be super small now.
Sony buying Konami would actually be a good move. Nobody is getting konami games anyway since they turned into a pachinko company. They are just sitting on a bunch of awesome IP. Sony buying them would mean that Metal gear, castlevania and silent hill would at leastsee the light of day instead of just fading away.
The issue is that konami is worth about 4 billion dollars. And Sony is worth about 80 billion.(to put it in persopective, microsoft is worth over a trillion dollars. 7 billion seems big but for them it is a rounding error.) They'd be spending a fuck ton of money on what amounts to IP without studios to make them, and acquiring a bunch of workers who they have no real use for unless they intend on making mobile games. There would be a ton of work to get things up and running.
Put it this way, Sony wasn't one of the people interested in the WBgames deal, and that came with several acclaimed studios. Microsoft was.
The issue is that konami is worth about 4 billion dollars. And Sony is worth about 80 billion.(to put it in persopective, microsoft is worth over a trillion dollars. 7 billion seems big but for them it is a rounding error.) They'd be spending a fuck ton of money on what amounts to IP without studios to make them, and acquiring a bunch of workers who they have no real use for unless they intend on making mobile games. There would be a ton of work to get things up and running.
Put it this way, Sony wasn't one of the people interested in the WBgames deal, and that came with several acclaimed studios. Microsoft was.
This.Well that would be the worst purchase ever.
Also I hate to see things like this happen. Stop cheering on big companies buying other big companies. It's the same with WB selling to Apple, who sells itself to Amazon, who sells itself to Disney. Big companies get bigger, while becoming the only place to buy anything, while giving the customer the illusion of choice by making alternative products in alternate names.
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