Rockstar alone would cost a pretty penny.
wait, isnât take-two way too huge to be acquired by even Sony??
@Shalandir care to weigh in on your thoughts on such a rumour
and if this happen⌠wow⌠RiP games, that huge catalogue going to Sony exclusives, would be a sad fcn day for gamers as a (potential) wider fallout of things
They could be the next Rare!
way diff things
Rare was a studio/"couple of guys"business acquired âearlyâ
Take-Two interactive is a massive multi billion dollar business (empire?) with a ton of big subsidiaries -that even have subsidiaries of their own, and among the biggest game companies out there along with EA, Ubisoft and such from the âbig boisâ club
I meant after they were bought they could be relegated to crappy shovelware or just become a shadow of their former selves. I donât think they are actually comparable but when I thought about it I got Microsoft flashbacks haha
well in that sense itâs still more of a Doomsday scenario then
because Take-Two is not just 1 department, if they then suffered (wholesale division style) itâs a ton of IPâs and studios that would share the fate, (not that this is very likely in this situation ofc but for hypotheticalâs sake) -which is/was pretty different than âjust 1 studioâ like with Rare
Take Two owns so much it would probably be pretty hard for someone liking video games to not have something in Take-Twoâs âholdingsâ catalogue that they liked and wouldnât see relegated to sorting electronic trash in an asian mountain dessert.
Bioshock, getting revived and turned into a Sony exclusive as a console war prop would make me actual cry, alone right there
Canât see why Sony would buy them just to do that to them but then I still donât know why Microsoft did that to Rare or why EA did that to insert massive list of devs here . I can be a doomsday spreader haha, I just want good games! 
The silver lining of console exclusives is when we have playable emulators then we have those games too! Will be cool when you can play Bloodborne on PC even though i hate exclusives wholesale.
Now Gamasutra is a great site for news and industry info, but, and this is the big but for me, Joel Kulina works for Wedbush. Because of a certain someone they have next to no credibility for me in any âpredictionsâ they make regarding the gaming sector.
Somehow I donât think Sony is in a financial state to be buying anything like this.
Let me put it simply.
This.
Will.
SUCK.
Remember XCOM 2âs insane mod-friendly focus?
Screw you!
Remember the prospect of a PC port for Red Dead Redemption 2 and same-day Xbox One releases?
See above.
Thought they learned their lesson from blunders like GTA IV on how much third-party DRM is too much?
Think again, courtesy of the âpublishersâ of SecuROM!
This is just a small piece of the spoiled meat pie youâre looking at if Sony actually got their hands on 2K. 2K has problems, sure, but nothing worth that.
I think the idea is ludicrous as Sonyâs had a number of massive blunders weighing down their company recently while 2K is on a constant rise with Red Dead 2 among other successes; itâs kind of like when EA wanted to buy Valve⌠if 2K doesnât want to be bought, Sony can âtalkâ all they want about it.
Truth be told, I couldnât see it happening at all⌠but if it were possible, it would be terrible.
Thought someone might want to see this. Just know itâs inconclusive and heâs just talking about it.
No, Sony is about 6 times as big as Take-Two when it comes to market cap.
~58 billion to 10 billion USD
Acquiring Take-Two could lead to things like GTA becoming a PS exclusive or some shit like that. So I donât welcome it.
Good old WebushâŚ
When Business Insider reached Kulina for comment, he directly refuted the rumor and denied attribution.
âI did not write anything. This is purely unconfirmed market speculation that is making the rounds. I am not the source of this story in any regard,â he said in an email.
Watch that manâs bank balance.
then he better not drop the soap
I shouldnât comment on any SNE/TTWO talks, so instead Iâm going to give a more plausible reason for the pop yesterday: on Twitter Gearbox announced they will reveal something at PAX East in Boston, MA on 28th of March. Everyone assumes this is Borderlands 3. Traditionally 2K Games has handled the publishing and marketing for Gearbox and that deal is unlikely to change for Borderlands 3, so with 2K being wholly owned by TTWO it caused a stir that this will be good for them (of course it will benefit to launch a game rather than not launch a game, and with Gearboxâs track record thereâs no reason to assume it will be a bad game).
Full disclosure: I have a rather large long-term stake in TTWO, primarily because Iâm waiting for Red Dead Redemption 2 to come to PC but also because they control the most profitable entertainment franchise in history (GTA), they are financially responsible (zero debt, stockpiles cash), and they have always tried to make great games then monetize later.
If they get bought out, I will have comments then but clearly I would profit short term.
But Gearbox also did Aliens: Colonial Marines soâŚ
What are the chances of this happening? Any rumors or such? Long ago, I was hopeful that Red Dead Redemption might grace the PC someday and Iâve lost track of whether thatâs even a possibility now.