Badlucktroll
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if Sony bought Konami, do you guys think they would also want to control the gambling business, or would they spin it off?
All in all, at the end of the day they are business. I would control it. It makes good money and the Japanese people love pachinko.if Sony bought Konami, do you guys think they would also want to control the gambling business, or would they spin it off?
If it makes money, why get rid of it?if Sony bought Konami, do you guys think they would also want to control the gambling business, or would they spin it off?
All in all, at the end of the day they are business. I would control it. It makes good money and the Japanese people love pachinko.
if Sony bought Konami, do you guys think they would also want to control the gambling business, or would they spin it off?
I’d argue that MS has a stronger relationship with Ubisoft if I had to choose one.Third party publisher that historically have strong relationship with Sony :
Rockstar
Ubisoft
Konami ( used to)
Square Enix
My random guess is one of these four
That would be a surprise acquisition...Funny that nobody is mentioning EA.
If any publisher was “in danger” of being bought up I’d pick EA since their value seems to be at its all time lowest.
It's a shame. At least Microsoft share their games with PC. But Sony devs are trapped to one machine.
MS do that because Xbox install base is too small to make serious revenue from game sales.
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They also made one of the best PSVR games, very talented studio.supermassivegames is the easy choice. until dawn was more fun than heavy rain.
Sad to see checkbook warfare coming to this industry. Unfortunately, retaliation was inevitable.
I'm staggered that they didn't already do this a long time ago with Insomniac, especially now after Spider-Man.
Imagine Spiderman flying through New York in his Iron Spider suit. Since the PS5 should render more objects at the same time and I don't think they will improve graphics (just the basic resolution, please no checkboard 4k, higher resolution textures, better lighting and shadows, occasionally some ray tracing implementation - sound or lighting) much early in this next gen. Day 1 buy.If, for some reason, Insomniac chooses to not do Spiderman sequels for PS5, SuckerPunch would be more than qualified to take the reins.
It is unclear whether he was talking solely about past endeavors (Super Stardust, Dead Nation, Resogun, Alienation and Matterfall were all PlayStation exclusives) or future ones as well.IK: Sometimes you need exclusive deals because money doesn’t grow on trees. We have been receiving assistance in order to be able to understand more about how service games are working, or how multiplayer is working. So even though it’s a huge risk, we believe that we need to have a better understanding of how to do these things.
Housemarque is still working on Stormdivers, their sci-fi Battle Royale inspired shooter game which is now in closed beta testing with a projected 2020 release date on PC (Steam). However, their big triple-A project is still unannounced for now.Of course, it’s a good thing to have competition, I think Steam has had a sort of monopoly. We certainly see that the PC market is dominated by the Steam store. It’s also possible that they do lots of interesting things, like this influencer program. That’s awesome that you can have this direct connection with these influencers, it is more transparent. So they stay kind of a pure influencer, and we can say, ‘hey 15% of the income is coming to you if you recommend and it turns into a sale.’ So it’s a transparent way of doing it, instead of paying players to play a certain Battle Royale game for a month. You know, some guy might have gotten $1 million to do it. So it’s much more transparent. And you can get five bucks if you recommend this and stream this and you are sort of doing it because of that, but also that you love the game. Not that I just gave you a million dollars to feature our game.
Well yeah it should play the best it came out more than a decade after its last iteration. And it still played like crap like you said.Despite the online issues and the trash campaign it's still the best multi and best playing game in the series. Throw all the money.
This actually is a clever middle-ground that would work out in everyone's best interests (except Google, of course). Nice idea.I think they should buy a large share in TakeTwo, to protect them from other buyouts and also lock down exclusivity periods and content. They could do this in partnership with MS, so Stadia do not get access to TT games.
I really couldn't care what western company they buy but just stay away from any company in Japan. Given their attitude towards Japanese content these days that's a safe bet.
FROM are owned by a large Japanese company that are into Manga and stuff. Can't remember their name right now. Platinum and CDPR would be great, as would the others.From Software, PlatinumGames, Atlus, Level-5 would be my first pick. Insomniac, CD Project Red, Bluepoint Games also could be great.
Well yeah it should play the best it came out more than a decade after its last iteration. And it still played like crap like you said.
if even MS couldn't get anything big, I don't think Sony can.
I think that's the same with Sony too or go after developers where they have a strong 2nd Party relationship with.MS don’t want to buy big. They want to buy small and in great quantity to fill out their store.
I think that's the same with Sony too or go after developers where they have a strong 2nd Party relationship with.
Sony couldn't afford any of them, they're not a very wealthy company.Funny that nobody is mentioning EA.
If any publisher was “in danger” of being bought up I’d pick EA since their value seems to be at its all time lowest.