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Rumour: Sony in talks to acquire Paramount
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SplunkyMunkey
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Alot of good movie ips that can be turned into gaming ips. Sony has talented studios to do this
iHaunter
Member
Hopefully it gets cancelled. For everyones sake.
Cyberpunkd
Member
One girl is lesbian, other is trans.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I only saw the first one, but got to admit it was an excellent movie!
Trogdor1123
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Didn’t know they were in trouble. Have paramount plus and it’s pretty great.
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
A little difficult for Sony in 2012, had a market cap of like 11 billion and Lucasfilm sold for 4 billion. Now it would be easy, market cap of 100 billion......
Codes 208
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I would laugh if sony actually does a better job at making them stick to the source material than 343 bothered to
Coloress_Kafka
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Sony could cancel the series and finally achieve “Halo Killer” status.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Well yeah, but while Sony would get the IP, Paramount's own game studios aren't the ones producing the specific higher-quality games you mentioned. And could those Paramount studios be grown to reach that caliber in order to produce some solid internal AA games? Would Sony even care to have SIE do that, since this deal doesn't seem to have much if any SIE involvement?
Otherwise sure, Sony get the IP and SIE get direct access to that IP but then SIE'd either have the current 1P studios make games based on them (out of those 3 IP listed I don't think any of the 1P studios would be interested or a good fit for them) or license out to 3P studios to make them.
But I guess there is some benefit for SIE with Spongebob & TMNT in having some big kid-friendly IP with strong transmedia & merchandising opportunities. If this specific deal falls through but Paramount are up to selling IP rights, at least SIE could try going for Spongebob, TMNT and South Park.
I don't think this will be gaming related at all to be honest. Sony have a lot of movie IPs themselves already that they dont make into games.
//DEVIL//
Member
I was about to quote the other guy who said they would ninja turtles. Because I know that belongs to Nickelodeon.
Didn't know they own Nickelodeon.
A proper ninja turtle exclusive to PlayStation is something very interesting to me.
I really liked the action movies they made. I don't know why they go back to the ugly character cartoonish design they had in the last movie. Just vomit every where
Let's see how this fold. For all we know it can be debunked tomorrow. But would have been interesting purchase.
I do wonder who is also bidding here.
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I don't buy this as actually happening. I would wager that a company like Apple would do it. my money is still on Comcast Universal.
Anyone but MS or a chinese company.
Anyone but MS or a chinese company.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Checks out. The writing is already almost as bad.
Badlucktroll
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I bet they would have kept Lucasarts
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Disney already owns that and yes they have largely wasted a ton of money.
Running Star Wars into the ground still angers me, especially when they showed that they are capable of making good films with Rogue One and Andor.
Dr. Wilkinson
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I hope this doesn't kill what has been an amazing resurgence of good Star Trek TV shows. It's been an amazing 3-4 years.
Angelcurio
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Hm.. a TMNT Last Ronin videogame by the God of War developers would be definitely interesting.
Elbow Identity Shallow
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James Sawyer Ford
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$10B for paramount would be a waste, imho.
Alebrije
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Yet.
LordOcidax
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Off topic thread…
SmokedMeat
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This is going to be a big nothingburger.
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nial
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Please stop making this PlayStation-related, SIE would have already made a SpongeBob game if they wanted to; not only this changes nothing, but they would also have to pay SPE for the license rights. They don't get this stuff for free.
Funnily enough, Sony Pictures does publish games on its own.
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Unrivaledx88
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This would be Huge
MarkMe2525
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Do we know if Paramount holds gaming rights to those IPs? I'm not doubting, but I know rights can be a complicated web of agreements.
Badlucktroll
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What will it be like if Microsoft gets into movies/shows/streaming?
nial
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This has nothing to do with Sony Interactive.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Paramount will remaster Bloodborne!
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Unfortunately, I think you're right. It's a bit frustrating TBH because this might eat into whatever money they could've put towards gaming investments for the FY.
Not even talking M&As (I've been trying to shy away from that); even stuff like 3P publisher investments or share purchases for SIE might not end up happening. These sort of budgets aren't infinite.
But maybe at this point I shouldn't be surprised :/
Skydance are currently in talks for Paramount. If those fall through, Apollo & Sony would sweep in with a joint offer.
This combined with the lack of new IP at a rate comparable to prior gens (in large part because of SIE scaling back their AA output) would be a 1-2 combination and not the good kind, for my personal tastes.
I mean, as intriguing as it'd be to see an SIE studio make a South Park or SpongeBob game, I wouldn't want that to come at the expense of a new IP from them or even a revival of a classic/legacy IP. Not unless SIE could expand their studio capacity.
And while Paramount does have some game dev studios, their output looks rather mediocre historically speaking. The best games were licensed out to legit 3P devs. Could SIE invest in the Paramount game studios to make the output better and have them do those SpongeBob or South Park games? Sure. Would they? I dunno at this point.
But I have been saying that Sony need some all-ages evergreen IP that are transmedia-friendly for gaming and other media. SpongeBob would fit in that very well as would a lot of the Nickelodeon IP. Also I think MTV technically owns Aeon Flux and a proper Aeon Flux game (maybe partnered with Shift Up) would be badass. But that's considering any of the benefits of this M&A would channel over to SIE and I just have doubts it would nowadays, whereas maybe a year or so ago I'd of been more optimistic.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Crocodile Dundee will finally get the game he deserves
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Sony is bigger than just playstation lol, they're not just gonna focus only on that and neglect all of their other brands.
midnightAI
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This is assuming Insomniac didn't want to work on Marvel games (which is incorrect, they were even given a choice of which Marvel IP they wanted to work on) and the fact they are still making Ratchet games.
simpatico
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Not 20th century Fox, just buying a studio who made their hay on a model that no longer exists.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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I know that. My question is if anything from this M&A (if it ends up happening) would actually benefit SIE.
If not, it'd be a big fat L IMO.
ChorizoPicozo
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and who is buying sony pictures, cuz they are trash
