Kadokawa Confirms Sony Acquisition Interest

Can't wait for people to continue their meltdowns over a Bloodborne remaster that's never happening.

@NapoleonDynamite I bet you ten copies of Concord that a Bloodborne remaster is out by the launch of the PS6 (latest as a launch title for it similar to Demon Souls)

@Burnish1619 Sony don’t want FromSoftware they want Kadokawa, FS is just a nice bonus.

I expect a 'welcome to the family' announcement ,at the game awards from Sony ,regarding FromSoftware, i can't see them withholding any games from xbox though, but elden ring or any future games won't have any chance appearing on game pass.

Fret not, Bloodborne will be brought back like Demon's Souls was, when Sony will consider it appropriate to boost console sales. I very much doubt there will ever be a PC port though...

Back to topic: it seems Kadokawa is considering it, which in other words leans towards this happening.

@lazarus11 I would assume no Xbox release, but I’d hope they’d put them out on PC day one. That would be a reasonable compromise and if FromSoft games can be made to the technical level of Sony first party games then most people are going to be winners from that arrangement.

Ngl not that i'm in favour of more acquisitions, but it's gonna be fun to see how the people that were in favour of the Activision acquisition by Xbox will react to this, especially on the green sister site where people where calling Sony desperate for trying to stop the acquisition and cheering Microsoft to consolidate the market.

Also, anything other than a 100% rejection of the idea that they are for sale means they’re ready to sell, it’s just a matter of price.

@DonJorginho if bluepoint do it I'm onboard

Gotta respect the old school approach by sending a letter.

The phrase “letter of intent” always amuses me. It sounds so confrontational, like a declaration of war - we’re letting you know that we’re coming for you and you’re *****.

As far as acquisitions go it makes the most sense besides Sony would probably keep all the FromSoft games multiplat except those that belong to Sony. They are only really interested in growing their anime empire to one of the biggest in the world.

more boring souls likes instead of fun action adventure games and platformers is what we need

I'm not sure the Bloodborne remake/remaster is contingent on this. Doesn't Sony own the IP anyway and Bluepoint have shown themselves more than capable of doing a stellar job with the From games.

Bloodborne so needs a resolution boost, I love it dearly but in my head looks pristine in a nightmarish way but booting it up it looks far rougher than I remember.

bloodborne was made by fromsoft but sony was the publisher of the game so they need each other to remaster or remake the game so if sony buys the company no more impediment..

Given they wasted, I mean spent 4 billion on Bungie, this acquisition easily would be worth 40 bil then?

@MeanBeanEgg I don't go on that green sister site anymore , i find most people seem to be irrational nutters.
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I've just been looking at the comments on the other site about this news, so much rage, absolutely crazy , the people who frequent here, seem to be far more polite and civilised.

@Neither_scene lol😂😂😂

I kinda want it to pass just so I can see how bad, big evil Sony is. And how a monopoly being run by Sony looks like lol. I do think those bums have been setting extortionate prices on everything PS but I don't think they're anywhere close to being a monopoly in any area. I'm not as big into buying anime/manga much, but as far as I can tell nothing much feels all that different under a company that apparently owns a large chunk of the industry now. Crunchyroll and funi were both crap before Sony. They're still crap after

If this is actually really happening I really hope it spurs Xbox into doing at least something competitive. I don’t mean an acquisition. I just mean something that isn’t constantly funding Sony. Who knows.

@K1LLEGAL

So gobbling up the industry with the initial intent to out spend Sony out of the market weren't moves to be competitive?

Sony want this from an anime/manga perspective, are MS going to buy out a massive anime conglomerate to fight that?

If they buy it does that mean more anime would come to crunchyroll?

@DonJorginho Lmao. Cope.

@K1LLEGAL i don't see how this will spur xbox on to do anything different to what its been doing, there will be no from software games on game pass , Sony will look at future souls game sales on xbox and if they don't sell to justify development, that will stop as well , this will be the only change if this acquisition goes ahead , for xbox owners anyway, what would you like xbox to do ?

I am confused by the lack of IP commitment. Still doesn't make sense, they are sitting on a gold mine

I assume it's on reference to Sony pictures but even thats not true, they have 100 years of 100 years of film and tv content to work with .
Playstation itself they could nurture resistance, destiny, killzone, wipeout, Syphon filter, legend of dragoon, warhawk, Bloodborne, demons souls, lemmings, wild arms, heavenly sword, the order, infamous , returnal etc

It's a treasure chest

@MeanBeanEgg This! The usual suspects on purexbox will now say that Sony does not have sufficient funds or that exclusives don’t sell as reason for Sony not buying this company, whilst celebrating when Microsoft does an acquisition.

@K1LLEGAL You mean the time that they purchased Bethesda and then Activision blizzard for $70 billion dollars? Really strange when Xbox fans ask for more after one of the largest acquisitions ever (7th on this list https://mnacommunity.com/insights/the-largest-mergers-and-acquisitions-in-history/)

I hope this goes through in order to see the meltdown of Xbox fans (mainly the usual suspects on Purexbox who become financial experts when it comes to Sony) who gave millions of reasons why the AB acquisition of Microsoft was good for the industry.

I personally can't see a problem with this acquisition part from Sony are growing an monolopy with anime.

@Sanquine Talking as a fan of both, I was incredibly confused when Phil said they were in the market again, I'm like "bro, you JUST managed a transaction that had to go through court, USE IT ffs and slow down"

Both companies are being incredibly weird and it makes me glad I'm not solely worshipping one of them exclusively.

@NapoleonDynamite Sounds like someone is scared about being forced to babysit 10 copies of Concord 😉

@ThatOneSneak I do understand why Microsoft wants to purchase another company. It’s a buy and build strategy and it’s normal for companies with a SaaS mode (software as a service). I think MS wants to diversify their portfolio because it’s western developers.

All the acquisitions they've made after Bluepoint have been garbage and made absolutely no sense this one actually would and as you pointed out benefit multiple branches of the company. Sony gets the Manga and Anime stuff to add to their line up and Playstation gets freaking From Soft and 2 cool smaller developers but most importantly TENCHU BABY!!!!!🥷

@DonJorginho The fact that you even mentioned Concord proved you weren't serious about it in the first place.

My guess would be that if this goes through, all FS will become PS5 and PC exclusive, with 1st launch being PS5, and PC following up (potentially soon after).
Sony do not really need to sell games to Xbox gamers. Due to game pass - the number of people, out of a relatively small market share, prepared to pay full price is just far too small. If you arent prepared to pay full price for games, you cant complain when those games dont come.
Of course Sony may do a game by game deal, but they would be silly to overlook brand building in favour of short term gain.

Comparing this to the MS aquisition of Activision is just strange. That aquisition, which was clearly aimed at just trying to buy up part of the market, was much, much larger in scale - so large in fact, it seems to have seriously backfired on Xbox division as MS/shareholders force Xbox to port games onto PS5, and force massive game pass price hikes.

This aquisition seems much more sensible in scale, and fits in (given the manga/anime elements) much better.

The fact we havent seen Bloodborne patched to allow 60fps or a straight 60fps remaster suggests plans are already in place to produce a full Demon Souls type remake, but whether this has got past planning stage is anyones guess. If the aquisition goes through, it will probably see a priority bump.

@MeanBeanEgg i don’t recall people ‘cheering microsoft’ for consolidating the market.

Also, Sony is still the market leader, even after the acquisition.

@Friendly

Do not even try to pretend that PureXbox wasn't cheering, just don't.

The CMA would get nothing but abuse so don't even try to pretend people weren't cheering.