Exclusive: Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa, the media powerhouse behind 'Elden Ring' (www.reuters.com)

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[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago

Nice while it lasted...

[-] CitricBase@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

This would be massive, Kadokawa is a hell of a lot more than just Elden Ring. They're one of the biggest media publishers in Japan. Books, manga, anime, games, you name it.

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wikipedia lists their gaming properties as:

Spike Chunsoft
FromSoftware (69.66%)
Acquire

Acquire is a name I associate most with Tenchu but it looks like the developed the Mario & Luigi game that released a week or so ago.

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Spike Chunsoft also developed the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games and, fairly recently, the new Dragonball game that, as far as I know, got good reception.

Kinda lame that these developers will be locked to PS or (months after release) Steam with PSN Account.

EDIT: And according to comments from Reddit, Kadokawa is a huge corporation that also distributes anime, manga and light novels. This isn't just about games.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I just went on a rabbit hole of wikipedia. This would be a huge buy of MANY IPs.

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Think of the remastering opertunities

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Great.

[-] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Kadokawa is a massive publisher of books and media in Japan.

For that reason alone I hope this is blocked. It would make Sony too huge in Japan to reasonably compete with outside of Shueisha and directly incentivize brand exclusivity deals.