Playstation RUMOR: Sony to acquire Take Two if Microsoft is successful in the Activision deal

Take-Two Jumps on Sony Acquisition Rumors: Does This Earn the Stock a Spot in Your Portfolio? - VectorVest
this website is basically saying Sony should jump on it now because once the GTA6 announcement comes out, the company's valuation will go up and it will make acquiring them harder.

psylockolussus said:
I play a lot of Assassin's Creed, so them going to Microsoft would be a loss to me.
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ohhhhhh I see. well, other than the first game in the series starting off as exclusive to Ps3 in development and then becoming multiplatform, I don't think the franchise itself has much identity with the brand. maybe Ubisoft then is a publisher best left alone so that their software stays multiplatform.
Superhero 101 said:
Meh in feel like COD Assassins NBA 2k and FIFA games all land in the same category… same product with a dash of new features
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you are talking about annual/yearly releases. several years ago, Sony - or someone working there at the time, said that he hates them.
psylockolussus said:
With Assassin's Creed, you get to visit a different country and time period in every new game and just free roam the open world if you want to. To me thats very appealing. And there aren't any other franchise doing that if I'm not mistaken.

Call of Duty, Just Dance, NBA 2K, WWE 2K, MLB The Show, most sports game/fps franchise - every game in the series look the same, the newer games just get a better coating.
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there was a point time when asscreed was released every single year, so @Superhero 101 is not completely wrong about what he is saying.
also, I can't speak for all of the game series you mentioned but for CoD in particular, it isn't that every new release is just a better coating. MW2 is quite different from Vanguard, which is quite different from Blops CW. I enjoyed MW2 and Cold War a lot, but not Vanguard at all.
 
Valhalla doesn't feel like Black Flag. Unity and Odyssey aren't the same. Rogue and Ac2 are totally different games.

A lot of the Ac games varied in game length. The earlier games didn't even have a skill tree. The franchise has evolved so much that you could literally group the games, based on their content.

I don't know if you could do that with Call of Duty and NBA2K games.
 
psylockolussus said:
Valhalla doesn't feel like Black Flag. Unity and Odyssey aren't the same. Rogue and Ac2 are totally different games.

A lot of the Ac games varied in game length. The earlier games didn't even have a skill tree. The franchise has evolved so much that you could literally group the games, based on their content.

I don't know if you could do that with Call of Duty and NBA2K games.
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I'm sure you have had a lot of fun and experience with the asscreed series, all I am saying is that at one point in time it was an annual series.

I can't speak for 2K because I never played that series consistently, but from my tenure of playing CoD, but if I understand you correctly when you say grouping the games, then I would say that the black ops games are quite different experience from the modern warfare games. just from the last generation into this one, ghosts, advanced warfare, black ops 3, world war 2, black ops 4 all played differently from each other.
 
They are all fps which is my point.

Assassin's Creed has ship warfare in some of the games and you can really feel the difference if you only played AC1/Black Flag/Origins.

Now if you're only encounter with Ac are Valhalla, Odyssey and Origins. They might feel the same.
 
Superhero 101 said:
Meh in feel like COD Assassins NBA 2k and FIFA games all land in the same category… same product with a dash of new features
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Well, that is the nature of these games.
COD is a Military FPS...not too much you can do there.
Fifa, NBA are Sports games...the nature of the sport is rather repetetive.

Assassins creed...i like the current core gameplay and all so im fine with it there.
I love the Origins base they have and i like that we get every new game a new setting and all while still maintaining the base im used to and like with here and there new little features put in.
So that is fine with me there, but i see the problem some have with this.
 
psylockolussus said:
They are all fps which is my point.

Assassin's Creed has ship warfare in some of the games and you can really feel the difference if you only played AC1/Black Flag/Origins.

Now if you're only encounter with Ac are Valhalla, Odyssey and Origins. They might feel the same.
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Your point is that CoD's genre as a series is fps. Has asscreed's genre changed from installment to installment?
 
XtremelyBaneful said:
Your point is that CoD's genre as a series is fps. Has asscreed's genre changed from installment to installment?
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The gameplay has changed.

Some has naval warfare.
Black Flag/Rogue has 1st person section in which you are in a modern day office.
The recent ones have eXtensive skill tree.
Mirage is said to be an old school Ac.

Now can Cod, Fifa, NBA 2K say that the same? It just seems weird to lump a franchise that have evolved so much in gameplay to those other game franchises. Assassin's Creed isn't even releasing yearly anymore as well. Those 3 if I'm not mistaken, still do.
 
Nothing says 'worst timeline' more than a happy Yves Guillemot.
 
psylockolussus said:
The gameplay has changed.
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Yes, but you said all of CoD is fps, which is a video game genre. And there is a different meaning between the gameplay and the genre of a video game.
psylockolussus said:
Some has naval warfare.
Black Flag/Rogue has 1st person section in which you are in a modern day office.
The recent ones have eXtensive skill tree.
Mirage is said to be an old school Ac.

Now can Cod, Fifa, NBA 2K say that the same?
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Yes for CoD in my opinion, and as I already said, I cannot speak for the the others. Advanced Warfare introduced the boosting that Titanfall had which added a whole new dynamic to the gameplay. This continued with Black Ops III with its own futuristic twist. Black Ops IV had different class systems that changed how your character would play, each with their own perks. I could go on and on, but my point is that just because the genre is the same, doesn't mean the gameplay is the same with just a better coating.
psylockolussus said:
It just seems weird to lump a franchise that have evolved so much in gameplay to those other game franchises. Assassin's Creed isn't even releasing yearly anymore as well. Those 3 if I'm not mistaken, still do.
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what do you mean by "lump a franchise"? lump in what way? do you mean with the other annual game series? because all I was saying about asscreed in terms of what it shares in common with the other series mentioned is literally just that; that at one point in time, it was a series that released an installment every single year. that's it.
 
henzINNIT said:
Nothing says 'worst timeline' more than a happy Yves Guillemot.
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Ubisoft is desperate to get bought and are within Sonys 5 billion budget….They do have interesting IPs like Assassin’s Creed,Far Cry, Watch Dogs, the Tom Clancy Games, Prince of Persia,

But if Sony were to buy Ubisoft it can cause Microsoft to acquire Take Two, EA or Square Enix or any other developers … it’s kind of sad that this if is how the video game industry has turned into
 
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Ubi Montréal alone has 4000+ employees. Can Sony really absorb that plus the other studios Ubisoft has across the world? Even if MS were to acquire Ubisoft, that considerable size is something to scrutinize.

And you all talk about Sony and MS in these acquisitions. You all forget about other heavy hitters like Tencent, Amazon, Apple, Google, Embracer...
 
Superhero 101 said:
Ubisoft is desperate to get bought and are within Sonys 5 billion budget….They do have interesting IPs like Assassin’s Creed,Far Cry, Watch Dogs, the Tom Clancy Games, Prince of Persia,

But if Sony were to buy Ubisoft it can cause Microsoft to acquire Take Two, EA or Square Enix or any other developers … it’s kind of sad that this if is how the video game industry has turned into
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I agree, it's sad that it has come down to this but if mS gets Take Two, it is game over for Sony. They have to go after Take Two first.

I didn't like how Disney was able to acquire Fox, either. That shouldn't have been allowed.
Gee said:
Ubi Montréal alone has 4000+ employees. Can Sony really absorb that plus the other studios Ubisoft has across the world? Even if MS were to acquire Ubisoft, that considerable size is something to scrutinize.

And you all talk about Sony and MS in these acquisitions. You all forget about other heavy hitters like Tencent, Amazon, Apple, Google, Embracer...
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Sony themselves aren't a heavy hitter, but mS is. However, none of the other heavy hitters are a platform holder, only mS. Which is why to me it's unfair for mS to be able to pull off an acquisition like this, where their competition can't.
 
Yeah I for sure thought PlayStation would buy them but I guess Square was just not interested
 
Uninterested or wasn't in negotiations.

Anyway, I want PlayStation to acquire Ubisoft (so they could pump out a new Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs game every other year, and those franchises would fit well into Sony's third person action adventure games) and Take 2 (to compete more with Activision owning Call of Duty).

I don't play Final Fantasy and I don't have any games that I look forward from Square EniX. The ones I already bought (Tomb Raider, Avengers, Guardians) which are pretty much over with them. While Capcom should stay multi platform.
 
psylockolussus said:
Uninterested or wasn't in negotiations.
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Hopefully, it is the latter so that they could one day be in negotiations. Sony cannot keep letting Square Enix slip through their fingers, they gotta lock em in.
psylockolussus said:
Anyway, I want PlayStation to acquire Ubisoft (so they could pump out a new Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs game every other year, and those franchises would fit well into Sony's third person action adventure games) and Take 2 (to compete more with Activision owning Call of Duty).
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Eh, personally I want them to acquire Take Two, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, and Sega. I think Ubisoft should remain multiplatform.

psylockolussus said:
I don't play Final Fantasy and I don't have any games that I look forward from Square EniX. The ones I already bought (Tomb Raider, Avengers, Guardians) which are pretty much over with them. While Capcom should stay multi platform.
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me neither. I tried playing FFSX remastered, I just couldn't get into it. I tried the 2012 Tomb Raider too, but couldn't complete it. Other than Sony's history with DmC, I don't see a reason why Sony should acquire Capcom either. They should also remain multiplatform.
 
I don't play any games from Bandai Namco and Sega. So *shrugs*.

Sony acquiring Ubisoft could be a good thing. Ubisoft is a mess, and their ips deserve better. Also not to mention, all the toXicity in their offices. There should be a major change for that company.
 
psylockolussus said:
I don't play any games from Bandai Namco and Sega. So *shrugs*.

Sony acquiring Ubisoft could be a good thing. Ubisoft is a mess, and their ips deserve better. Also not to mention, all the toXicity in their offices. There should be a major change for that company.
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I'm not thinking about only myself here when talking about these acquisitions, you know. I'm thinking about the industry and the history of PlayStation associated franchise. Tekken, which is owned by bandai namco was exclusive for a long time and Sony acquiring the publisher would ensure them going back to being exclusive. Same with FFS, I have absolutely no emotional attachment to that franchise, but I recognize that it's had a long history of association with PlayStation.

Same with Persona & Yakuza, as far as a history with PlayStation goes. I love Persona 5 and the whole Yakuza series and Sony acquiring Sega would solidify them as exclusive series again.
 
Their games just don't feel like they would fit in with Sony's AAA games. Like if we don't know who developed Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs, its possible someone would think they are from the same company that released Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man 2018, Days Gone and those other Sony third person games with photo realistic games.

Yakuza doesn't look like a triple A game imo, and looks a bit dated compare to its fellow open world games. I don't think Tekken fits in with Playstation Studios. I bought it last year for my eX, and from of what I witnessed, compare to other fighting games I played, its definitely no Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Then Persona, I'm not really into its visuals and it doesn't look like it would fit in well with Sony's major game franchises.

Imo, if they have to acquire a studio. It should have franchises/ips that would feel natural being a PlayStation franchise. I know not every franchise has to feature photo realistic graphiX, however Sony iirc, want their games to feel like blockbuster movies. So the best candidates if they have to acquire a major studio are: Take 2 (GTA, Red Dead, Mafia) and Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs).

I also how no clue how popular are Bandai Namco and Sega now? I don't think they are as huge as Take2/Ubisoft. Persona I know is popular but thats it. Ubisoft and Take 2 would definitely be bigger purchases.

Square Enix, I think that ship has sailed for that one given the recent news.
 
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