Why'd they wait for the value to skyrocket?

First demand at the board meeting

Please don't release the sequel close to any of our exclusives. Also can maybe you not be released on Xbox?

huhhhh???

This is inline with the news of a PS5 Armoured Core exclusive game. They need to just announce it already. Unless its a PSVR2 title similar to RIGS?

Oh, no...

They better not start to force console exclusives.

So if my math is correct Sony spent $122M just to own 14% of From Software. Considering they only paid $200M for all of Insomniac I’d say this is a head scratcher.

Is Miyazaki included in that 14% ? XD

Wow this is huge. I wonder if this means we will get Bloodborn 2?

Fascinating

I wonder what exactly their 14% gets rhem

Every major publisher and console maker should have a stake in this company. It is way too important of a studio. This is a studio that will get people to switch consoles to play certain games. That is a rare thing.

they should have bought 15% of microsoft

Ooooo. I'm surprised nobody's bought them whole yet actually. From and its team is very valuable.

Noice.

The thing about these acquisitions was s that unless you’re buying a big named franchise it doesn’t make sense. For example the devs make the games. I’m this case it makes more sense make deals with devs vs buying ips. They are the ones who can leave and recreate the experience elsewhere. Outside of a GTA, or MW ips are empty shells if the talent leaves the studio. Ask bungie.

Damn, and here's me thinking they'd be after 10%! But 14 whole %!!?? Incredible!

I think it makes more sense to own part of studios more than buying them out right (Microsoft-we mean you).

That way it almost guarantees that said games will be in your platform, and if the game does well-the platform does well too.

Good move on Sony.

Skny is getting sued for gaining more than 6billions because of increased prices of games..... But n4g wont care anything bad from sony

Sony is also in a financial alliance with Kadokawa, together they can both out-vote Tencent and perhaps make some games PlayStation exclusive.

This is good. I hope to see more From exclusives on Playstation.

Ugh ... Tencent man. These guys are eventually going to cause some damage and I don't mean that in a good way.

I’m assuming Sony got the biggest share they could so they could keep FromSoft making games for them just in case since the future is unpredictable.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau