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Jez Corden - Warner Bros is interested in selling NetherRealm and TT Games
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HoofHearted
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More to come on Wednesday….
GhostOfTsu
Banned
They don't own any IPs so it's just buying staff that can leave. Ed Boon will retire.
SLB1904
Banned
they own mortal kombat
GhostOfTsu
Banned
WB will not sell the IP with it
SLB1904
Banned
duh. completely forgot WB owns everything
MrFunSocks
Banned
The point is that with someone like nether realm developing killer instinct it could become a big franchise once again. The fighting game community knows nether realm. If a new killer instinct came out with all the polish and amazing graphics and gameplay of mortal kombat 11, it would sell.
MrFunSocks
Banned
Depends. Does it make much sense to keep the IP if you sell the only developer that has ever made the games for that IP? Why would they sell the studio if they cared about the IP? I would bet any sale would include the IP.
Andodalf
Banned
Possible we could see a rights split for movies/TV. Or MS buying it and giving a permanent license for that as part of the deal
Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
NR Killer Instinct please!!!
Furozen
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Source:
Rumor: Warner Bros Interested in Selling NetherRealm, TT Games
A new report claims that WarnerMedia may be considering selling both Mortal Kombat's NetherRealm Studios and LEGO dev TT Games.
gamerant.com
MasterCornholio
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Source:
Rumor: Warner Bros Interested in Selling NetherRealm, TT Games
A new report claims that WarnerMedia may be considering selling both Mortal Kombat's NetherRealm Studios and LEGO dev TT Games.
Furozen
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
in other words, you don't like the things they leak
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
This was last month.
www.ign.com
What Jez has may be old.
Warner Bros. Sells One Games Studio, But Says It Won't Sell Any Others - IGN
Warner Bros. and AT&T are selling Playdemic Mobile Games to EA in an all-cash deal valued at $1.4 billion. Other studios will remain with Warner Bros. as part of the new Warner Bros. Discovery company
What Jez has may be old.
GHG
Gold Member
Source:
Rumor: Warner Bros Interested in Selling NetherRealm, TT Games
A new report claims that WarnerMedia may be considering selling both Mortal Kombat's NetherRealm Studios and LEGO dev TT Games.
If that's the case then the studios are locked in with WB until at least mid 2022 which is when the deal AT&T discovery deal is set to be concluded.
Grubb is 100% full of shit on this one. If WB were to somehow sell off assets now then it would have huge implications for shareholders. It's simply not going to happen and him thinking there's a possibility it will proves he doesn't understand the business dynamics surrounding these companies at the moment.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Osaka_Boss
Member
You guys really want a Killer Instinct with bad to terrible animation. KI remake was amazing, awesomely crafted. NRS clunky gameplay is not fit for the franchise.
MasterCornholio
Member
If the documents are old and don't apply to the current situation then if he makes a claim that this is going to happen it's basically BS.
Thirty7ven
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I’m sure this fellow has the inside track on this.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
One of the biggest travesties in gaming recently is the people who made the KI remake getting bought by amazon to work on their flopped MMO or whatever the hell they do over there
GHG
Gold Member
Also to touch on this from the article:
How are they any different other than their names?
Prior to the discovery deal AT&T were looking at numerous ways of spinning off the assets they own across warnermedia because the acquisition wasn't working out for them due to a number of reasons.
If the documents are old then say so, especially considering the fact that there's now a situation where a deal for those assets has publicly been announced. What does WB having to come out and make a statement about this on a weekend tell you?
These guys are barrel scraping frauds.
- No, after the deal is complete WarmerMedia will not be entirely "decoupled" from AT&T, AT&T will maintain a percentage ownership of the new company
- The deal will close mid next year
How are they any different other than their names?
Prior to the discovery deal AT&T were looking at numerous ways of spinning off the assets they own across warnermedia because the acquisition wasn't working out for them due to a number of reasons.
If the documents are old then say so, especially considering the fact that there's now a situation where a deal for those assets has publicly been announced. What does WB having to come out and make a statement about this on a weekend tell you?
These guys are barrel scraping frauds.
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bender
What time is it?
MrFunSocks
Banned
Mortal Kombat is far from “bad to terrible animation”. Also far from clunky gameplay.
Nether realm are great devs, and they could make killer instinct feel like killer instinct.
MrFunSocks
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Means nothing. Companies don’t come out confirming rumours of sales, ever.Source:
Rumor: Warner Bros Interested in Selling NetherRealm, TT Games
A new report claims that WarnerMedia may be considering selling both Mortal Kombat's NetherRealm Studios and LEGO dev TT Games.
Do you also think that Blueppint won’t be acquired by Sony?
harry mason 1989
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I can't take any insider's seriously these days
GHG
Gold Member
If they were to release a statement like that at this point and then go back on then it would be securities fraud.
Hell, even if they weren't to make that statement and somehow those assets get sold off prior to the deal with discovery closing then it would also be fraud.
The only way those assets don't make their way through to the new company that is forming between AT&T and Discovery is if the entirety of the deal falls through.
To provide some context, this would be like the following "rumour" surfacing in the time period between Microsoft announcing the Zenimax/Bethesda acquisition and the deal formally closing:
"Bethesda is interested in selling Arkane Studios and Tango Games"
What would you have said if you saw that headline pop up?
And to address the Bluepoint point, they are not an asset that is part of an already announced deal between two publicly listed companies.
SenjutsuSage
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They've been more accurate than literally every Playstation insider combined, which admittedly is pretty easy to accomplish since none have been right about anything thus far.
bitbydeath
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Guy who makes shit up, continues to make shit up. News at 11.
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bitbydeath
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They’re all frauds, there is no competition here.
JerryinSoCal
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KI would have to become an NRS style game and that would make the KI faithful pissed, KI just doesn't have the appeal that Mortal Kombat or any of the other top fighters do, they'd be better off buying a small studio or starting a small one to work on KI and keep doing what they did last time if the continue with it at all.
JerryinSoCal
Member
Grubb is wrong a lot of the time, he's still hanging on to that BS Xbox free online play story because that was one of his biggest blunders and he's trying to cover for it. The guy is a fanboy, he's not to be taken seriously. Jez is more reliable but even here they say that the paperwork he has could be from when WB were looking at selling the entire gaming division a while back.
JerryinSoCal
Member
MK and Injustice animations have improved a lot since last gen, both series look much better than Killer Instinct did last gen, those animations stunk!
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SenjutsuSage
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Jez got full Series X specs, full series s specs, got series s mere existence right when folks said it didn't exist, he knew about the avalanche game and others still not announced, and apparently the IO interactive game. Jez is very well sourced.
Omnipunctual Godot
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Would be strange since NRS games seem to be pretty profitable and consistent.
JerryinSoCal
Member
You cut out over half of that profitability when you cut out PS4/PS5 customers and KI isn't worth the investment it would require to buy NRS so no it wouldn't be a good idea.
JerryinSoCal
Member
The gameplay is totally different so how would it work? You'd be making KI characters mortal kombat characters and that's going to piss the small but loyal KI audience off.
bitbydeath
Member
Link?
He was the guy who thought there’d be a third Xbox that never showed up.
He’s as informed as any other Twitter user.
Is Warner-Discovery not just a spin-off company, to then turn around and sell, probably to Disney to bolster HULU MAX/D+, in 2 years time? I thought AT&T wanted OUT of the games and media industries again, in an update to the restructure news from last year when they said they were staying in?
Yup.
Guy that leaked full specs of Series X few months before reveal and also confirmed an existence of Series S in times when GAF laughed him off is for sure fraud.
And I'm not even talking about fact that he had documentation that Xbox is working with Avalanche on new game which was revealed at E3 as Contraband...
Total fraud
TidusYuna
Member
I get what you mean, i would have preferred Tekken X Street Fighters instead of Street Fighter X Tekken. Akuma in Takken 7 was pretty cool. But it would still be pretty dope to see KI characters vs MK characters. Maybe cater gameplay more toward Killer Instinct first since they haven't had a game in a while. Include Fatalities, X-rays.
Bryank75
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No, AT&T are already getting paid through the new structure..... but they also still have a controlling stake in the new entity. Doubtful they want to lose control and Disney wouldn't be allowed buy it if anti-trust laws have any credibility at all....
bitbydeath
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Link?