>>1041212 This is terrible.

>shit fuck might buy fuck shit I can already smell the shit fuckery.

>>1041212 >>1041209 Doesn't Japan have anit-trust laws? And what about the difficulty of a foreign run company buying Nip companies?

>>1041218 The Sony company (Sony Group Corporation) is Japanese, it's the games part (Sony Interactive Entertainment) that is run by woke California.

>>1041212 What does Sony even do besides games nowadays? I haven't heard of any Sony appliance or product for a while now.

>>1041220 Mainly anime and cameras

>>1041220 Insurance, cameras, Music, Anime and TVs (barely)

Something interesting I found, Sony was similar in size to Kadokawa in market cap until 2016, around the launch of the Piss4, the headquarters change, and the beginning of the grand pozzing. Which is completely disproportionate to the impact Sony actually has on global affairs, considering the company was going red in pretty much every aspect. I tried seeing if perhaps healthcare or Sony Bank or image sensors or even Sony Music (it IS tempting as Sony Music is the largest catalog in the world) could explain why it's almost as large as Disney, but no, nothing. It's entirely dependent on muh entertainment which has been flagging for years. The cap really seems to be based on <YAS KWEEN THE NIPS BENT DA KNEE TO GLOBOHOMO despite the actual fundamentals proving otherwise. In that case, it would be disastrous as Sony's valuation is a sham and a bubble waiting to pop.

>>1041212 Kadokawa Corporation I dont really care about this, Kadokawa is a shitty corpo anyway for anyone that pay attention to the shit they do in the anime, manga and LN scene. This just meaks they would fuck people just a bit harder now.

>>1041228 Kadokawa owns Fromsoft.

>>1041212 Cancer eating cancer. Break the cycle and boycott everything.

>>1041247 so? souls games have been playstation exclusive since Kings field.

>>1041250 ah yes, my favorite PS5 game, elden ring.

>>1041220 Some very good headphones and earphones.

Fuck.

>>1041212 Awesome.

>OP doomposts >doesn't ever post in his own thread epic

>>1041212 Sony still has money left?

>>1041212 Oh please god no. Sony's already shit as it is, I don't want to see them buy out Kadokawa and force their DEI nonsense onto countless anime and manga. If this actually does go through, I hope it wakes the Jap populace up as to how much DEI already sank its fangs into their culture, and not just western shit that uses their culture like AssCreed Shadows or the upcoming Ghost of Yotei, so they can understand just how fucked things are and push back against Blackrock and other companies like them getting more ground in Japan before things get even worse.

Does Sony overall seem to show pozz, or is it just the vidya and movie divisions? Of course it's easier to spot in entertainment divisions, but are their Japanese insurance or electronics divisions known for DEI hiring practices or anything? Either way, it sure seems like they're overextending themselves given that they have many divisions that keep losing money hand over fist. So I don't personally care about this much since it seems likely to just bite them in the ass.

I'd like to thank the mods for annihilating shitpill's attempts at his usual shenanigans before they're barely on the board, he's really seething over being so shut down this time >>1041220 They >produce semiconducters >provide financial services >are a music publisher >make movies Though their gaming sector, which is by far their biggest, "only" composes 28% of their revenue. Their second biggest sector is electronics, but I don't know if that includes PlayStation, VR, etc.

>>1041227 don't you mean piss5? Since piss4 came out in like what 2008? >>1041351 Everything Sony has made for years that's animated, movies, games etc have been pozzed to hell & back. Need i remind you of any recent capeshit flicks both 3dcg & 3dpd? They've not only gotten progressively worse Soyny is pushing Miles NIGGER le ebin Morales constantly doing what they can do destroy anything Parker had as a person.

>>1041356 The camera division so large it was forced into a seperate company as well. Many generic devices like dashcams use a sony sensor.

>>1041351 Their anime stuff is fine, it really depends on where the HQ is located

new information, it seems like we actually lucked out as Kadokawa was looking to sellout, but went with Sony instead of Tencent.

>>1041382 >because I might wake up to trannyflag DLC and an easy mode in an upcoming Souls game. I wouldn't worry because if that came down from corporate then Miyazaki and friends would probably fuck off and start their own Souls company.

>>1041380 >Kadokawa was considering Tencent before going with Sony Well, looks like Kadokawa was fucked either way. Hopefully whatever happens to them is the best case scenario. Worst comes to worst, at least the Kemono Friends fanbase gets some catharsis.

>>1041386 >"Porn addicts will never be game devs" >Yoko "Send 2B porn in the archive please thank you" Taro Is this hypocrisy or inferiority?

>>1041390 >at least the Kemono Friends fanbase gets some catharsis. Oh you have no idea

>>1041380 I'm going to argue some counterpoints. >For all its faults Tencent is USUALLY hands off and it coincidentally picks Western companies compromised by ideological cancer. That doesn't mean that Japanese owners who willingly sell out to foreign countries aren't complete fucking scum, but China right now is basically looking to pull out of foreign investment now that Wukong monkey game has renewed confidence in domestic game production, seeing as Tencent's money was only to hedge against the CCP banning video games altogether. That's a low probability since one push to do that nearly crashed the economy. Kadokawa would never have found a CN buyer and JP Xitter doesn't know what the fuck it's talking about. <Meanwhile Sony is HEAVILY interventionist in its management. Some people may say, "they don't touch companies like Notes Co. Ltd. (the Fate guys)" and they may very well be right. But for every Sono Bisque Doll and Kunoichi Tsubaki there's a Lycoris Recoil (don't you nips wanna watch a black homo) and Senpai wa Otokonoko lying in wait. They closed down Right Stuf, and guess who has fingers in the merch business? That's right, Kadokawa. In other words Sony would be a more Chinese company than Chinese companies. <The reason a lot of Japanese management are being uncharacteristically fucking stoopid is that the shitty fucking brain-damaged boomers in the LDP actually bought the lie that the ESG/DEI scam was free money the West/(((Jews))) were handing out. See the rash of nuisance streamers and tourism that the citizens have been talking about for a year ever since the Kishida regime (lowest approval ratings in history) stupidly relaxed regulations on foreigners, leading to wonderful headlines like Johnny Somali, the Delgado Douyin clip where a nog looked up a schoolgirl's skirt and an American fatso defacing a Shinto shrine. Ishiba being elected is not much better as he was only chosen because he was seen as distanced from the LDP's slush fund, only for the public to see him fall asleep during a session Biden-style. Needless to say Japan's citizens are quickly learning that dipping your toes into the globohomo acid bath hurts just as much as fully bathing in it. >On a more positive note said redpilling means a greater understanding of globohomo and the JQ that will BTFO all ugly Jews in the future. <As for Kadokawa's own issues, the successor basically got arrested over the Tokyo 2020 Olympics that never came to be because of globohomo, alleged of offering bribes that are still being investigated to this day. The management is severely out of touch, see the censorship incident and the push for ESG while simultaneously attempting to get otaku to be retail investors. And lastly the Niconico hack certainly didn't help matters. Kadokawa's main strength over Sony is that it respects creators' ownership in most cases (obviously not true for Tatsuki), so a small consolation is that an attempt at monopolizing will instead result in the existing talent just moving to smaller domestic competitors. Still, Sony owning Niconico just feels wrong.

>>1041431 Generally, I'd agree but like you said in your post. China got more confident with Wu Kong and will try policing shit in the future, just look what happened with Snowbreak and how they got censored by the government for appealing to their userbase. I think if it was Sony VS Tencent then I'd rather have Sony since despite having the occasional DEI oddity like Dragon's Dogma 2 had with one of it's major characters, Lycoris Recoil was a really solid anime and generally I don't mind having black characters in entertainment if they're done right. Even with Recoil you can make the argument that they made him fit pretty well despite Japan not having many blacks in the first place.

>>1041220 Movies, insurance, hardware, anime, banking. Sony could very easily become Japan's Samsung.

he's starting up again

Willy do be getting his posts from cuckchan he should stay there.

Isn't blackpill also LCP? He's just a pedo seething that the site won't allow CP like the schizo loser he is.

>>1041535 I think, but I've only ever seen that said once. He's definitely Lucanio, as discovered by a few instances of him forgetting to IP hop. I don't know what the fuck his Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde shtick is about.

Drown yourself in semen

>>1041380 >Sony instead of Tencent. Same cancer.

>>1041365 >Since piss4 came out in like what 2008? 2013. The piss3 would've still been active at that time since 2006.

>>1041546 They're not the same cancer, Sony is worse than Tencent. Sony's terminal cancer. Since 2016 and the Californian headquartering of their games branch Sony Interactive Entertainment, the Californians there made Sony games woke. Tencent is Chinese and, despite contrary niggerpilling, Asians aren't as woke. The Chinese and Japanese aren't as woke. I don't mean there's no social justice, but there's not as much. Japanese and Chinese are less interested. California's the most woke state, woker than any country, and poisons its media worse than anyone. Hollywood is California. Silicon Valley is California. California is the headquartering, and the frontline, of social justice. Tencent likes malware, but Sony likes malware, too. They're a leader in adding invasive anticheats to PC games, like when a Steam user caught Sony Interactive Entertainment's "Days Gone" tracking every keystroke you make on your computer while the game is running. And remember the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal? >Copy protection measures on about 22 million CDs distributed by Sony BMG installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and "phone home" with reports on the user's private listening habits, even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits. Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files invisible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user and introduced further security vulnerabilities.

>>1041564 "Sony and Tencent, same cancer" is niggerpill, you're replying to niggerpill, niggerpill always answers "how bad is this, 1-100" with "100." Everything's 100-bad to niggerpill so everything's the same to niggerpill. Sony and Tencent, Trump and Kamala, Japan and California, all 100-bad to niggerpill, all the same to niggerpill. Anything means end times to niggerpill. Now that you know, don't reply to him.

>>1041564 >Tencent is Chinese and, despite contrary niggerpilling, Asians aren't as woke. Yes, they are. The only different is that West Taiwan already had their cultural revolution under MaoMao. The West still has yet to undergo the process. This is why Snowy looks "worse" by comparison, but the reality of the situation is that the end goal for either group is the same. It's like asking if you want to have sex with a women after she's already contracted AIDs (West Taiwan a& Tencent) or go to a party where you have the almost certain chance of getting AIDs as a result of going (Soyny and Silicon Valley). Either way, you're still contracting AIDs.

There are some articles on the acquisition of KADOKAWA Corporation (hereinafter "the Company") by Sony Group Inc. However, this information is not announced by the Company. The Company has received an initial letter of intent to acquire the Company's shares, but no decision has been made at this time. If there are any facts that should be announced in the future, we will make an announcement in a timely and appropriate manner. End of document

>>1041564 >>1041620 The entertainment in East Asia isn't as woke. By "woke" I mean "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, feminist, misandrist, diverse, disabled, blacked, and progressive, with ugly women because beauty standards bad." Soyny entertainment's way more woke than East Asian games from China and Japan, and the contrast is stark. It's like having sex with a woman who has herpes (East Asia) or with a woman who's contracted AIDS (West). That woke is a step in a cultural revolution less needed in China is true, it's why entertainment's not as woke there.

>>1041601 >niggerpill always answers "how bad is this, 1-100" with "100." Everything's 100-bad to niggerpill so everything's the same to niggerpill

>>1041629 Snoy Interactive, the PlayStation HQ people are talking about, is in California. The comparison is California and East Asia, not the West and East Asia. This is important, your definition of woke makes Californian games, thus Snoy games, MUCH more woke than Western games, and Western games more woke than East Asian games.

>>1041629 >By "woke" I mean "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, feminist, misandrist, diverse, disabled, blacked, and progressive, with ugly women because beauty standards bad." Except that's exactly what West Taiwan was doing during the Cultural Revolution.

>>1041212 If Sony owns Kadokawa Sony would own FromSoft and Spike Chunsoft and Kadokawa Games, so Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. Which of these games does Sony own if Sony owns Kadokawa? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FromSoftware#Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Chunsoft#Developed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kadokawa_Shoten_games

>>1041907 Both are equally inferior to the Greek one :^}

>>1041907 >Akira Toriyama <Only remembered by his mediocre shonen anime <Fans turned on him, shitting on his legacy once they fell into the rabbi's hole To think My Hero Academia's creator is going to face the same fate and that's because he had the brilliant idea of making a capeshit inspired anime in which attracted the worst kind of dykes and faggots who keep bitching that the female characters are sexualized while ignoring it's a NTR in disguise.

how would Sony even pay for this? debt that Kadokawa would then need to pay off for it's own sale? Sony has done nothing but bleed money for years the only reason it's stock price is not in the toilet is boomers don't realize consoles are dead yet.

>>1041989 god, i wish i could say I was the one who scammed sony

>>1041989 Maybe the same way the glazers bought Manchester Utd?

It is OK, the chinks have already surpassed America's lapdogs in entertainment years ago

>>1042151 Genshit Chinkpact doesn't surpass anything. It's popular with normalfags and fujoshits, that's it. Even the more mundane Japanese gacha kusoge like Fate Grand Order still surpasses it in design and story quality. Every single character in Genshit is the definition of "safe horny" which is a term you should get used to if you don't know what it means already. With that said...America's domestic entertainment has indeed reached a new low recently, and one can only hope it reaches its anti-zenith soon so we can feel once again the golden age of American entertainment like we had in the late 90's and early 00's

Will it really be that bad? I am surprised Sony didn't try to buy them sooner.

>>1042154 I don't think lolis qualify as safe horny, anon.

>>1042287 There are what, three lolis in Genshin? And they aren't 'sexualized' at all. I'm talking mostly about the other characters who most fans of the game seem to simp for.

>>1042300 I've heard the animation rig for those characters is internally called loli. Still chink shit casino.

>>1042304 The monkey's paw is that it's all going to be ugly bastard/orc rape and bestiality with a healthy dose of guro mixed in.

>>1042151 Yes on China surpassing Amerilard. No on Mihomo. Good taste does exist in CN but it gets oppressed into underground as seen by >>1037401. Milquetoasthomo in no way represents the best of Chinese talent.

>>1042154 >"safe horny" Do >we really need to keep using this normalfag twitter lingo? Can' you come up with your own word for it? How about "Koshur lust"?

>>1042154 It's safe horny by CCP standards, by western standards playing this game would be considered genocide because men enjoy it.

>>1042382 >How about "Koshur lust"? Kosher design?

So, the deal is both better/worse than originally thought: https://archive.ph/Iym3B https://80.lv/articles/fromsoftware-owner-kadokawa-is-ready-for-an-acquisition-deal-with-sony/ >Anime publisher and FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa Corporation said that it is ready for a purchase deal with Sony if the latter would buy it entirely. <Sony, in its turn, is cautious about buying anime and video game-related assets.

>>1044182 Whenever there's a gigantic flop like Concord, you bet your anime booty that the retards on top have to offset that with some "Artificial Growth" by buying out another company.

>>1044182 Miyazaki walks into Sony HQ the first day >I saw what you did to Demon's Souls you fucking gaijin niggers! So help me you Christless mongaloids if you try to do the same to Bloodborne I'll drive every last one of you autocastrati into the pacific ocean.

>>1044182 >>1044184 best case scenario is Sony finally realized that people don't want woke shit or "movie games" and that Bloodborne: 60fps Edition and Bloodborne 2 would have them swimming in money

>>1044221 Realistic scenario is that Sony eases up on the woke shit, but it doesn't matter because their games are still shit for a million other reasons.

>>1044182 <pureezu buy us <as we pumped our stock price up to $4B >>1044221 Many of the changes are trivial to do like, for one, getting rid of the superpoz compliance boards that force Japanese developers to submit documentation in English. Hell, trash SIE America. Problem is, will Sony swallow its pride and do what it takes to survive? It pumped itself up a bubble through financial reports full of fraudulent concealment that misled boomers into dumping money into them as a cultural control vector, and that bubble can pop at any moment. I think that might drive their trepidation at buying Kadokawa outright, because >Kadokawa is being the desperate initiator coming on strong >while buying them may be a hedge post inevitable-pop it will be with money they technically don't have on hand and the purchase would expose their fraud

Any reactions on Japanese Twitter or Yaraon?

>>1044229 Remind me who was that western CEO (probably a jew) that stated the likes of: <"I would rather see the company go under than to side with customers". It was not any soyny CEO, but from another company that had some anti-consumer practices that ended up costing them a lot of money (not related to pozz, but to predatory practices), to the point they had to be bought. Was it one of the car companies, maybe? Either way, that statement is what anyone can expect from those old men at those companies. They are bitter, spiteful and petty. they will chose to go bankrupt instead of obeying customers.

I unironically use RPG Maker and enjoy it, so if Sony does buy Kadokawa that's a big nope for me.

>>1044273 Willy, RPGmaker is an engine, not a game.

I cannot believe they would ruin RPGMaker like that. I always enjoyed its story with its twists and turns.

>>1042154 I thought the orchestrated music was nice, that is until the lead composer Yu-Peng Chen left the team in September 2023. Music since then just doesn't feel the same. >>1042300 >There are what, three lolis in Genshin? There are nine playable to date. >And they aren't 'sexualized' at all. If it's Nahida, there is no need for her to be, the appeal is already there.

>>1044581 >Bloomers Meh, they might be really cute, but it is far from sexual. Call me when a loli with visible pantsu is added to the game.

>>1044588 >Call me when a loli with visible pantsu is added to the game. Seasun does what Mihowon't. I need to probably doublecheck with my account when I get Eatchel though, she might be a fake loli with the flat aesthetic but not the age.

>>1041212 >Kadokawa what did these niggas own again?

>>1044789 >>1041637 linked lists.

So roughly what is the chance that Sony is going to gut SIA America and this is the first step in that direction?

>>1045031 Well Yosida Shuhei is fucking off and he was the westaboo that sold out to the west.

WELP https://xcancel.com/ChibiReviews/status/1866829072061378732 https://80.lv/articles/fromsoftware-owner-kadokawa-is-ready-for-an-acquisition-deal-with-sony/ https://archive.ph/Iym3B

>>1045210 Was he the westaboo or was it someone else

>>1049048 From the sound of it, it seems like it was inevitable they were going to be gobbled up by someone. Either Microsoft, the CCP (Tencent) or the Gooks. Out of all of them I don't really know which is the lesser of evils. Maybe the Gooks? Fucking Koreans being in control of so much Japanese anime would leave a bad taste in my mouth though.

>>1049154 The entire industry would refocus on pumping out stories that are covert critiques of the chaebols if the gooks took over, like how a good chunk of Korean media is right now.

>>1049048 >"is ready for an acquisition" >the article says NOWHERE it is proceeding as such, and that only an initial letter of intent from Sony but no decision has been made at this time, as it's been reported by others I primarily hate western journalists for making bait articles, as well as knowing nothing much of Japanese companies (Kadokawa's main value is as a printing company and anime publisher, and Sony Corp isn't SIE), but people who cannot do basic proof-reading aren't much better

Crisis averted. For now. Sony Group Corporation acquires ten percent of Kadokawa Corporation, will not become majority shareholder and is not buying Kadokawa outright https://archive.fo/pW6Kx

>>1052444 Not good news or a crisis averted, largest shareholders have the most control and Sony can now strongarm Kadokawa around. Good news would be Sony making no deal.

>>1052467 Yeah, but 10% is far from the worst case scenario.

>>1052467 Wait just a minute, the actual title of the archive is this: Sony Group Corporation and Kadokawa Corporation to form strategic capital and business alliance. Sony Group Corporation to become Kadokawa Corporation's largest shareholder. But >>1052444 rewrote the title to play it down and paired that with pretense there's no problem. He also just played up blackpills about Nintendo in the GamerGate thread. /v/'s just sneaky console war fags pushing agendas lately.

>>1052476 >/v/'s just sneaky console war fags pushing agendas lately. That's what it's always been.

>>1052444 >sony can push for games from Kadokawa's IP to be a sony exclusive And they can buy more shares in the future when people aren't looking

>>1052530 Sony doesn't even push for their first party games to be exclusive anymore...

>>1052444 >Crisis averted. For now. thank god for Concord and Activision Blizzard between them Sony was too broke to ruin kadokawa.

>>1052838 They became Kadokawa Corporation's largest shareholder, there is a potential crisis and they can still ruin Kadokawa Corporation. Maybe they ruin Kadokawa Corporation, maybe they don't.

>>1052543 >Sony doesn't even push for their first party games to be exclusive anymore... I didn't buy PS5 because of this despite growing up with PS. When 7 Rebirth comes to PC next month will it come with Denuvo?

>>1052860 >When 7 Rebirth comes to PC next month will it come with Denuvo? All Square games comes with Denuvo. But usually they turn it off after a while.

>>1052862 Rough waters for pirates these days.