Games Inbox: What if Sony bought Kojima Productions, COD jumping the shark, and WWE 2K22 praise
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The medium one So Sony might be buying Hideo Kojima’s company, eh? I know it’s only a rumour but things are getting nasty now I see. We’ve gone from Microsoft flashing its wallet to Sony trying to sabotage their deal with Kojima by buying him out. It’s not nice, and I’d like to see anyone defend it, but it is business so I guess there’s nothing we can do.
I’d personally be surprised if it did happen though, because not only will it make Sony look petty and aggressive but I’m not sure Hideo Kojima is really ‘the big one’ when it comes to acquisitions. Not even Metal Gear Solid was ever that big a seller and Death Stranding certainly wasn’t. He also tends to work quite slowly and he’ll be 60 next year. If he has an idea for something using cloud computing I’d rather just see him work on that with Microsoft.
As to what Sony’s ‘big one’ could be, I would assume it’s a Japanese publisher, possibly Square Enix. That would make sense in terms of Sony no longer having a first party Japanese studio and being Japanese they’d likely manage them a lot better than Microsoft ever would. We’ll see I guess…Korey
Just business Very interesting to know that some investors are unhappy about the Activision Blizzard deal. I can totally understand it too. Microsoft got them for a song and that means they make less money than they would’ve.
Not that I care about them, or who owns Activision Blizzard (haven’t bought one of their games in I don’t know when) but I definitely didn’t like the way Phil Spencer was so two-faced about criticising Activision and
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