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[Oddvintagechap]

Again, fuck no. Fuck off, Sony. Garbage company when it comes to IP management IMO.

Let me have whatever youre having. Garbage ip management?

 

[sublimit]

This is a pretty ignorant and sensationalist take.

Even if Sony were to purchase Leyou, there is absolutely no indication that SNK would become part of Worldwide Studios or produce games exclusively for PlayStation.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is administered separately from Sony. What Sony owns isn't owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Sony Corp. MAY (if Bloomberg's info are correct, which they often aren't like much of this rumormongering from completely anonymous sources. Remember all the drumming on the Switch Pro?) be bidding on Leyou, but it isn't Sony Interactive Entertainment purchasing SNK.

Sony owns Unties, which publishes games on Switch and other platforms and doesn't have any relationship with Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Sony owns Aniplex which owns Fate/Grand Order, yet PlayStation isn't getting an exclusive FateGO (which would likely be a very smart thing to have to push PlayStation in Japan).

People who don't know how this stuff works tend to identify Sony with Sony Interactive Entertainment. That's not how it works.

Thanks for putting things into perspective (as always).Too bad that very few people read your posts and continue talking out of their asses.

 

[lock2k]

You mean brazil

Kof is way bigger in Mexico than in Brazil. Hell, Kof is bigger than Jesus in Mexico. lol

 

[Agent X]

what will sony do with SNK SNK in the last few years has made KOF,Samurai showdown and a few metal slug games. All of which sony showed 0 interested in promoting or having any sort of exclusive deal with since all the way back to the OG xbox days And 2nd there just going to censored the game into the ground especially since Mai,kula and yuri arent PC.

You must have missed the releases of Metal Slug 3, The Last Blade 2, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Samurai Shodown V Special, and The King of Fighters '97 Global Match for PS4 and Vita. These were developed (by Code Mystics) as the result of a joint partnership between Sony and SNK.

Here's a link to a post from PlayStation.Blog announcing Metal Slug 3, which also hints at other games in development (which have since released):

Metal Slug 3 Coming to PS4 & Vita, More NEOGEO Classics on the Way

We’re excited that PS Experience is just around the corner, and in leading up to the show… we have an interesting poll for PlayStation Network users and fans of SNK / NEOGEO to participate in here on the official PS.Blog.

blog.playstation.com

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Kof is way bigger in Mexico than in Brazil. Hell, Kof is bigger than Jesus in Mexico. lol

First I hear of it. Outside Angel anyway.

 

[NahaNago]

Pretty much. Do they really need an exclusive fighting game?

yes, and an online shooter that would rival halo and gears.

 

[Spukc]

Kof is way bigger in Mexico than in Brazil. Hell, Kof is bigger than Jesus in Mexico. lol

yeah right

mexico has a KOF statue? i don't fucking think so

 

[lock2k]

yeah right

mexico has a KOF statue? i don't fucking think so

I said KOF is bigger than Jesus IN MEXICO. Not Brazil. This makes no sense whatsoever lol

 

[Spukc]

I said KOF is bigger than Jesus IN MEXICO. Not Brazil. This makes no sense whatsoever lol

stop moving goal posts dammit admit defeat

 

[Carna]

after new KOF
and that 3d metal slug sheit

i honestly don’t care it’s like RARE just a name EH

KOF is still good, Metal Slug is just a redundant clone of Contra

 

[Lunk]

Let me have whatever youre having. Garbage ip management?

God of War, Naughty Dog franchises, "Horizon". They're all these complacent "watch cutscenes and do some light over the shoulder tapping" bullshit. They're all slow-paced and molded by other big publishers's conventions for mechanics and game design. Sony is just Ubisoft with narrative competence.

 

[Spukc]

KOF is still good, Metal Slug is just a redundant clone of Contra

 

[Aion002]

This is a pretty ignorant and sensationalist take.

Even if Sony were to purchase Leyou, there is absolutely no indication that SNK would become part of Worldwide Studios or produce games exclusively for PlayStation.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is administered separately from Sony. What Sony owns isn't owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Sony Corp. MAY (if Bloomberg's info are correct, which they often aren't like much of this rumormongering from completely anonymous sources. Remember all the drumming on the Switch Pro?) be bidding on Leyou, but it isn't Sony Interactive Entertainment purchasing SNK.

Sony owns Unties, which publishes games on Switch and other platforms and doesn't have any relationship with Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Sony owns Aniplex which owns Fate/Grand Order, yet PlayStation isn't getting an exclusive FateGO (which would likely be a very smart thing to have to push PlayStation in Japan).

People who don't know how this stuff works tend to identify Sony with Sony Interactive Entertainment. That's not how it works.

Hmmm Maybe.... But, Fate is not owned by Aniplex, they have the publishing rights, so they get a shit ton of money, specially over Grand Order, Fate is owned by Type-Moon and Grand Order was developed by Delightworks not a Sony studio on mobile and, on arcades, FGO is published by Sega.... So it's not really a normal situation.

And Unties is more of a side thing.... They help release indie games and most of their games are on Playstation.... Which is quite cool.


Anyways, SNK is different beast, for Sony pushing the Playstation is a must and they already made deals with SNK to make a console exclusive on PS4(The King of Fighters XIV), if they owned SNK they surely would push that again...


Also, Leyou Technologies, the group that Sony, supposedly, wants to buy has other studios in it, like Digital Extremes, makers of Dark Sector and Warframe... So it's just not SNK in case, which might indicate that this is a move towards many fronts and Playstation would "get" some stuff with it.... probably... Unless Sony is dumb enough to buy a couple of studios and ignore the fact that they have a platform for those studios to "shine".

 

[Bardiche]

I'm down for this if we get Capcom vs SNK 3. CvS2 is one of the best fighting games of all time, we need another entry.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Would be huge if true.

 

[Hudo]

What about investing in Japan Studio instead? I sometimes believe Sony deliberately don't want to make Japan Studio into more than a support studio...

 

[Jigsaah]

Would be huge if true.

Would it though? I mean, if it were Arc System Works...yea huge deal. SNK....eh...seems like a waste of money honestly.

But I digress, Abriael_GN put it best.