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 Dezponia | This seems like a bad thing for consumers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2024/11/19/sony-is-in-talks-to-buy-kadokawa/ | 12:17:50 |
 Markus Koas | ouch
please don't
just
don't | 12:21:45 |
| Markus Koas | it wouldn't be half as bad if Sony interactive entertainment wasn't mainly in California
Sony really got worse a lot faster after they moved this part from Japan | 12:23:31 |
| Dezponia | I like how 90% of the news outlets I've seen reporting on this focus on Kadokawa owning FromSoftware :P | 12:23:51 |
| Dezponia | Given how insanely massive gaming is as a market and how successful FromSoftware is I suppose it's not strange. Anything they release would be a system seller for Playstation. I just get the impression that Kadokawa is quite a bit bigger than just that. :P | 12:24:04 |
| Markus Koas | honestly
didn't even know they owned about 70% from Fromsoftware | 12:25:42 |
| Markus Koas | I just don't want them to fuck j novel club 😂 | 12:26:24 |
| Dezponia | The consolidation of the anime and manga market would be massive from this. I'm not even sure if this merger will be allowed to happen. | 12:27:18 |
| Dezponia | It seems very likely this will result in an even stronger monopoly position for Sony in the anime/manga/LN market. Especially for the western market. | 12:30:25 |
| Dezponia | And yeah I fear for what this would mean for J-Novel | 12:32:08 |
| Markus Koas | hopefully not
but like I said - personally I wouldn't be against it that much if they hadn't moved their Sony interactive Entertainment headquarters to the US and started with their weird censoring bullshit
but on the other hand - there is already way too much power in this industry bundled under this part of Sony.... | 12:32:30 |
 stefan | In reply to @Dezponia:matrix.org
And yeah I fear for what this would mean for J-Novel They are subsidiary of Kado so they be sold as well. Together with the european branch. Other than JNC buying themselves out or something. | 12:43:40 |
| stefan | But yeah Sony owning Kado would be a massive deal for Manga and LN. | 12:44:10 |
| stefan | From Soft and kados whole game department is a drop in the bucket in terms of size to their publishing arm | 12:44:50 |
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