Sony in talks to buy Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the "Elden Ring" game (Reuters)
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Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Makes sense, they already own a good portion of Fromsoft and a smaller portion of Kadokawa
thought Namco/Bandai published the game?
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Sony own actual stake in the company. Bandai/Namco published Elden Ring but Fromsoftware own the actual rights to the IP like Kojima with Death Stranding, despite sony funding and publishing it.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
INB4 people who cheerleaded for a 70 billion dollar acquisition for two years express why this is horrible
"organically grown"
"DLC goty nominated"
something also worth noting is the anime presence Sony is quietly building for itself. Owning anime distributors, creators and publishers basically puts them first in line for any games developed from them.
It's doubling down on their existing marketshare of big-eyed media, but the next big hit a la MHA/JJK/etc that needs a game that isn't them mass-produced joints they do for the shonens basically going to fall right to their hands.
iirc they have partial ownership of crunchyroll and Kadokawa produces a grip of shyt
It's doubling down on their existing marketshare of big-eyed media, but the next big hit a la MHA/JJK/etc that needs a game that isn't them mass-produced joints they do for the shonens basically going to fall right to their hands.
iirc they have partial ownership of crunchyroll and Kadokawa produces a grip of shyt
Grand Conde
Superstar
This is about building an anime empire, gaming isn't a big thing here. Probably won't impact From Software.
Considering they already own Crunchyroll and Funimation they'd own an overwhelming amount of the backend of anime, manga, and light novel publishing. They'd own Yen and J-Novel club so the majority of English light novel publishing. Kadokawa already owned too much of that. It's pretty clear they want to own anime.
Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
They already own % in From Software
It literally is "organic"
Owning a stock percentage is a organic relationship now?
