What’s the likelihood of Amazon or Google just buying Sony in the next 10 years

Sony doesn’t have $$$ to compete on this scale

to buy rockstar you gotta buy take-two bro

I feel like if anyone it’ll be Apple.

They’re losing out on the gaming market big time.

Zero because Sony is a Japanese company and the government doesn't let westerners buy their businesses or you gotta be a japanese citizen or something like that

Then we say monopolization instead, doesn't make a difference. The way capitalism evolves, the bigger companies swallow the more smaller companies and competition becomes the victim of its own success. This is the way it has always been and I am surprised it took so long for it to happen in the gaming industry. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if we get more mega-acquisitions soon.

Nintendo PlayStation soon come.

I honestly cannot f***in believe they did this s***… Microsoft just snatched the f***in gaming industry by the d*** man! 😭

Hmm interesting. Not familiar with Japanese law like that

and just like that, it goes from nintendo v sony, to msoft v sony, to apple v msoft

sony would get f***ed

Japan doesn't have such laws, you are mistaking it with China's joint venture laws. Although the government - bureaucracy - company triangle will do their best to keep certain jobs in Japan

It’s gonna be real funny when MS drops the BAG to get GTA 6 exclusive

yea remember when there was the rumor on Microsoft tryna buy Nintendo and Nintendo laughed at that s***

those two never getting bought out unless its by another Japanese company

s*** i heard same s*** if you wanna live there too or something like that

S*** maybe

I don't even know if Microsoft could buy sony anyway s*** would basically be a monopoly at that point

industry was revving up that's why

think how cod has always been one of the top selling franchises, but how drastically diff the numbers are compared to like bo2 era

feel like fortnite really propelled the industry

nintendo and sony merger finally

Lol

Iunno about all that now

Yall think this means cod bout to be xbox exclusive?

no

Sony joining apple would mean there are more devices and cloud subscriptions available for them to play with. Not only that, but they’d get access to all those middle aged people who don’t usually play video games. Imagine Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, apple fitness, PS Plus all under one subscription.

The ability to play PS games on your iPhone, mac, iPad. The money to be made would be ridiculous.

Take 2 entertainment already bought by the chinese if im not wrong

Games have gotten more expensive to make and the technology needed to make such advance games hasn't kept up with the visions of the creators and the demands of the consumers so the entire development process just ballooned in terms of man-hours needed for every game. Unless we can get AI automating immense parts of the development process (seems unlikely with today's technology), this is the way of AAA gaming baybay

even the law does trip over semantics this much, like with internet explorer and word lol

they don't literally need to be the sole being

Also in this entire discussion you guys are underestimating the massive Chinese market

serious question, if the idea that sony will be bought is out there, why not the same for Nintendo? sony has more to go on than Nintendo do if we're being honest lmao. that's a weird take imo.