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Exclusive: Sony in talks to buy media powerhouse behind 'Elden Ring', sources say (www.reuters.com)
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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Known as the inventor of the Walkman

Yeah, that's what everyone knows Sony for. Especially nowadays.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

I'm old. That's what I know them for.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

This should be illegal. They own Crunchyroll and bought Funimation, both massive distributers of anime outside of Japan.

Now they want Kadokawa, the source that is inside Japan.

Also, after their Concord blunder I didn't know they could even afford to buy Kadokawa.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also, after their Concord blunder I didn't know they could even afford to buy Kadokawa.

I think you underestimates the size of Sony. A few hundred million is not that much for a company worth many billion.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

"The difference between a million and a billion is roughly a billion."

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 18 points 20 hours ago

Letting Sony go through with any additional aquisitions will further enshitify the gaming market

[–] Atlusb@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

Given their tight hold on demon souls and blood Bourne I'm not completely shocked but far from happy.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 9 points 19 hours ago

This is what happens when an American monopoly giant tries to "spend sony out of the business". Acquisition wars are bad for consumer. Hell, anything MS does is bad for the consumer. Now we have sony playing defence to make sure they don't get excluded from yet another franchise via dumping.

And yes, what MS is doing with GP is dumping.

[–] shani66@ani.social 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

If this deal doesn't fall through a fairly large swath of culture is just going to suffer, not just fromsoft.