EA rumored to be bought by Amazon. Tencent basically "not" buying but almost buying Ubisoft...
I give it 1 year for all biggest publishers to be bought at this point.
edit: this is all confusing, I had to read it all somewhere else, lmao. I thought they had 49.9% of Ubisoft. Pretend you didn't read this post (even if what i said is probably true)
To make it easier to understand:
In addition to Ubisoft, the Guillemot brothers have or ruled several other companies that are not Ubisoft, as it was the case of Gameloft.
One of them is a company that the Guillemot brothers use to manage their stocks, like the ones in Ubisoft. Tencent bought almost half of this company, not almost half of Ubisoft.
The Ubisoft brothers own a small part of Ubisoft, I think it was somewhere between 15-21%.
Why is Bungie worth 4billion, but Ubi only 0,6? Seems out of wack. Edit, this is not about Ubi. Okay then. Thread title is misleading as fuck.
Ubisoft's current market cap is $6.35B. Recent big gaming company acquisitions have been paid with a premium of 40-60%. They should calculate the case for Ubisoft, but with all the huge IPs and huge amount of workers and studios they have it would be very big. But if we only take 50% premium, to buy it would cost $9.5B.
Bungie wasn't worth 4B. It was bought for $2.4B and on top of that Sony saved $1.3B for future retention bonuses and other acquisition related costs, totalling a cost of $3.7B for Sony.