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Sony to ready to buy take two (if you believe a recent report)
- Thread starter SplunkyMunkey
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Fox Mulder
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Sony can’t buy Take Two. Like 14 billion would be pretty hard to pull off.
Even if Take Two was down for a sale, a giant company like Amazon, Apple, or Google might as well swoop in and offer shareholders way more money for the inevitable future that’s coming.
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bentanchorbolt
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Sony doesn’t need to buy T2 to compete. The only thing Sony needs to do is exactly what they did during the PS4-PS5.
ChorizoPicozo
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this rumor is not new. just saying.
SlimeGooGoo
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
and it was wet.
Loxus
Member
The fact that this isn't the first time Sony acquiring Take-Two came up make me believe it may be the other way around.
In 2019 it was heavily rumored Sony was in the talks of acquiring Take-Two. I can see that process happening behind closed doors and could be the main reason Microsoft is trying to get Sony to produce Business deals documents.
Sony may not want to reveal any as Microsoft could use that as fuel, while on the other hand Sony doesn't want to lose the revenue COD generates for them.
This is just my speculation base on what you said though.
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Kdad
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Tencent likes to take 40% to stay out of the limelight....That brings it down to 9.4 billion for Sony....
Sony can’t buy Take Two. Like 14 billion would be pretty hard to pull off.
Even if Take Two was down for a sale, a giant company like Amazon, Apple, or Google might as well swoop in and offer shareholders way more money for the inevitable future that’s coming.
Still aint happening.
bluecowboys
Banned
This is ridiculous. Sony is becoming a monopoly with the rumour acquisitions of take two and square enix. I’m reporting this to the FTC.
ChorizoPicozo
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make a letter and proudly post it on Twitter first
GhostOfTsu
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LeT Us CoMpEtE
SoloKingRobert
Banned
You've been saying this since Microsoft Zenimax acquisition. That was like 3 years ago.
We're still waiting...?
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Walter Matthau
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Does this mean GTA has to come out on Switch for the next ten years?
nightmare-slain
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No chance. Sony would need to spend tens of billions. It would be about the same as what MS is having to spend for Acti/Blizz
Sony is not a poor company by any means but they don't have the same financial power as Microsoft. I'm not sure if Sony would let the PlayStation division spend that kind of money and if they did they'd be stupid to.
The difference between MS and Sony here is that $60-70 billion is pocket change for MS that they'd not miss and for Sony it is years worth of income.
Sony's best hope is that they can convince TakeTwo to sell Rockstar, and maybe get them for about $30-40 billion, and then convince governments and countries that owning Rockstar games would be fair and not anti competitive. GTA is one of the biggest games in the world and there is no way that Sony would ever be allowed to make it a PS exclusive. They'd have to let it stay multi platform and then offer a deal on for PS users....you know just like GamePass.
Not happening.
Sony is not a poor company by any means but they don't have the same financial power as Microsoft. I'm not sure if Sony would let the PlayStation division spend that kind of money and if they did they'd be stupid to.
The difference between MS and Sony here is that $60-70 billion is pocket change for MS that they'd not miss and for Sony it is years worth of income.
Sony's best hope is that they can convince TakeTwo to sell Rockstar, and maybe get them for about $30-40 billion, and then convince governments and countries that owning Rockstar games would be fair and not anti competitive. GTA is one of the biggest games in the world and there is no way that Sony would ever be allowed to make it a PS exclusive. They'd have to let it stay multi platform and then offer a deal on for PS users....you know just like GamePass.
Not happening.
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OGM_Madness
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Expectations: Sony buys the company Take Two.
Reality: Sony employee buys copy of It Takes Two for PlayStation 5.
Great game btw!
Reality: Sony employee buys copy of It Takes Two for PlayStation 5.
Great game btw!
Shifty1897
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Ain't no way. Close the thread and block the site from being linked here again.
FBeeEye
Banned
Dude doesn't even have $8.
Loxus
Member
Nah, I think it should be flagged as rumored.
I'd like to see people's take on if it was true. A Microsoft acquires Activision, Sony acquires Take-Two discussion.
MarkMe2525
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I read the original tweet and it sounded more like speculation. Anything is possible, but I'm not putting much stock in this. Take two is on the verge of huge pay days from the release of GTA 6. Now is not the time to sell.
Edit: lol OP was so hyped to make this thread he/she misspelled one of the seven words on the title while also forgetting to preface it as a rumor.
Edit: lol OP was so hyped to make this thread he/she misspelled one of the seven words on the title while also forgetting to preface it as a rumor.
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3liteDragon
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Just remember that no insider saw the Bungie, Bethesda & ABK acquisitions coming…
Topher
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You've been saying this since Microsoft Zenimax acquisition. That was like 3 years ago.
We're still waiting...?
How has he been saying that for three years when he just joined NeoGAF last March?
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Rykan
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It's not going to be even remotely the same. Activision/Blizzard is way more valuable than Take Two is, even with Rockstar included. Rockstar does not sell 25 ~ 30m copies on a yearly basis like CoD does. AB also comes with Blizzard games and KING.
All of that combined is worth way, way more than Take Two.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
How has he been saying that for three years when he just joined NeoGAF last March?
yeah, who'd say they joined on a different date than they did right
Topher
Gold Member
yeah, who'd say they joined on a different date than they did right
Oh......I get it now.
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
He is an idiot attention-seeker and is always wrong lol.
Salz01
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And I thought Grubbs mug was annoying as hell…. This bests it.
Oddvintagechap
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Sony to ready to buy take two
Mibu no ookami
Member
Obviously not a credible rumor or source, but I've always thought T2 made the most sense for Sony. particularly but not limited to as a response to Microsoft buying ABK.
One it gives you leverage to maintain COD availability on PlayStation and real parity.
Second, PlayStation Studios could help take GTA and Red Dead to the next level when it comes to gameplay and PlayStation Productions could take it to the next level when it comes to transmedia.
Now you look into sports and cross-marketing with the NBA, MLB, PGA Tour, and you look at the availability of FIFA and cornering that market for the future. Maybe partner PGA Tour with Clap Hanz, which could only be an improvement given the poor marks on the game. Eventually, get back into Hockey, football, and Cricket. Maybe even roll Polyphony Digital into 2K Sports and bring back Nascar, F1, and WRC.
We haven't even discussed zynga for mobile and the ability to launch GTA6 and RDR3 on PC exclusively via a PS launcher giving them an opening into the PC market.
I think it would absolutely be worth the money.
One it gives you leverage to maintain COD availability on PlayStation and real parity.
Second, PlayStation Studios could help take GTA and Red Dead to the next level when it comes to gameplay and PlayStation Productions could take it to the next level when it comes to transmedia.
Now you look into sports and cross-marketing with the NBA, MLB, PGA Tour, and you look at the availability of FIFA and cornering that market for the future. Maybe partner PGA Tour with Clap Hanz, which could only be an improvement given the poor marks on the game. Eventually, get back into Hockey, football, and Cricket. Maybe even roll Polyphony Digital into 2K Sports and bring back Nascar, F1, and WRC.
We haven't even discussed zynga for mobile and the ability to launch GTA6 and RDR3 on PC exclusively via a PS launcher giving them an opening into the PC market.
I think it would absolutely be worth the money.
Mibu no ookami
Member
I mean even with behavioral remedies of 10 years, you're looking at GTA6 but not GTA7. Red Dead 3 but not Red Dead 4.
With MLB already being on Xbox and Switch, I can't see why 2K Sports wouldn't continue to be multiplatform.
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L*][*N*K
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Sony didn’t want MLB to go Multiplatform though, they were force to it
Mibu no ookami
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They were forced to do it, but they had the option of letting go of the franchise too and they decided to keep it and go multiplatform.
yurinka
Member
100% bullshit. Sony doesn't have the budget or interest to acquire them.
CoD makes over twice the money than GTAV. And GTAV is a unicorn, its sales have nothing to do with even the sales of the other GTA games. Pretty likely GTA6 won't match even the half of its sales.
If Sony is still developing because it was ok for them to make it multi. Sony could have simply not have renewed with MLB and stop working on this series and move San Diego to do something else. Nobody forced them to continue working on MLB.
No, GTA V was released 10 years ago. In these years CoD released many games, a game per year selling each one 20-30M+ copies plus their addons (IAP/DLC/season passes etc) and on top of that there's Warzone and the mobile game.
CoD makes over twice the money than GTAV. And GTAV is a unicorn, its sales have nothing to do with even the sales of the other GTA games. Pretty likely GTA6 won't match even the half of its sales.
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manfestival
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I have a source that tells me Sony is going to buy EviLore and force him to read slam poetry for the rest of his life.
Rac3r
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Reuters put out a story suggesting that the EU is likely to approve the deal with behavioral remedies. Activision stock was up significantly after the report was published.
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Exclusive: Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say
Microsoft Corp is expected to secure EU antitrust approval for its $69 billion acquisition of Activision with its offer of licensing deals to rivals, three people familiar with the matter said, helping it to clear a major hurdle.
www.reuters.com
Deal is still up in the air though. The CMA is, and always was, the major hurdle.
Team Andromeda
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Maybe before the PS3 era it would happened, but since that era SONY has a ton of historic debt and just can't afford it, unlike NCL or Microsoft how not only make billions but have more money in the bank than most countries and no debt
Mind you I'm still wating for Nintendo to buy Capcom its only been 20 years wating for approval #Megaton
Mind you I'm still wating for Nintendo to buy Capcom its only been 20 years wating for approval #Megaton
In Cold Blood
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Sure.
I could see Sony pushing for some kind of exclusivity with GTA6 tho.
I could see Sony pushing for some kind of exclusivity with GTA6 tho.
Fredrik
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Lol this will never happen and the setup in the article is hilarious when he says Sony might do it out of fear that Microsoft might go after Take-Two next after they’ve acquired Activision Blizzard 
There will be no more big acquisitions by MS if they acquire Activision Blizzard. They’ll have their hands cuffed behind their backs after that.
There will be no more big acquisitions by MS if they acquire Activision Blizzard. They’ll have their hands cuffed behind their backs after that.
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BennyBlanco
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this guy rules. wonder what his neogaf account is.
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Art The Clown
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I’m buying FROM.
Regulators would force GTA and RDR to remain multi-platform in any purchase scenario.
Only party that can acquire the likes of T2 without getting into the same song and dance with the regulators is Tencent and Netease.
Random internet journalists aren’t privy to discussions at that level. These insiders won’t know anything.
Only party that can acquire the likes of T2 without getting into the same song and dance with the regulators is Tencent and Netease.
Random internet journalists aren’t privy to discussions at that level. These insiders won’t know anything.
gow3isben
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Chiggs
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Deserves more attention.
GHound
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Sony can't buy any of these. Microsoft already owns them spiritually and is just waiting for ABK to go through so they can announce it the following Thursday.