Two sources have leaked that Sony is in negotiations to buy Kadokawa Corporation. This name may not be familiar to you, but if I tell you it is the powner of almost 70% of the shares of FromSoftware Surely you will realize the importance that this company has in the world of video games.
FromSoftware has games and franchises as important as Demon´s Souls, Dark Souls, Sekiro y Elden Ringand was also responsible for developing the well-known and acclaimed Bloodborne. Interestingly, Sony had already signed an equity alliance with Kadokawa in 2021, and the following year made a direct investment to buy a small amount of FromSoftware shares.
The purchase of Kadokawa Corporation would be a very important operation for Sony for obvious reasons, and that is that the Japanese company would acquire some of the most important franchises in the world of video games, and could make them exclusive total or partial PlayStation, but this is not the only reason why the Japanese company is interested in this operation.
There is another key point in this possible purchase operation, and that is that Kadokawa is the owner of Dwango, which is the parent company of others such as Spike Chunsoft, Gotcha Gotcha Games and Acquire, responsible for games such as Zero Scape, RPG Maker and Tenchu, among many others. As if this were not enough, the company is also the owner of several manga and anime franchises that generate a lot of money around the world.
With all this on the table it is easy to understand why Sony could be so interested in acquiring Kadokawa Coporation. This operation would give it a large number of franchises and intellectual properties that it could take advantage of to improve the catalog of games on its console, and also to create new franchises based on new IPs. It would be a very profitable operation.
We still do not have official confirmation, but fans of FromSoftware games have already shown their concern about this purchase operation, because they believe that Sony could make the studio’s franchises exclusive to PlayStation. Be calm, which is unlikelyespecially taking into account the success and money they move on other platforms, especially on PC.
At the time of writing this news, Kadokawa Corporation shares they rose 23%, So it is clear that investors have been favorable to this possible purchase operation by Sony.
Source: www.muycomputer.com
