Sources say Sony plans to buy Bandai Namenggong in response to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
CTOnews.com, October 16 (Xinhua)-- AlexSmitk, a former developer of Sony SIE's first-party game studio Bend Studios, revealed on the X platform yesterday that Sony plans to buy Bandai Namenggong in response to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
As early as the beginning of this year, Sony's current CEO Jim Ryan tried to carry out a series of negotiations with Microsoft to force Microsoft to give up the acquisition after learning that Microsoft would buy Activision Blizzard, but the talks between Sony and Microsoft soon broke down, and Jim Ryan adjusted its strategy accordingly, changing to "looking for a new acquisition outside the Bungie while waiting for the Blizzard acquisition to be stopped by regulators" and finally chose Bandai Namenggong.
▲ Touyuan AlexSmitk's post on the X platform AlexSmitk stressed that Sony's 10:00 Hiroki and Kenichiro Yoshida had previously held talks with Bandai Namenggong on the acquisition and that both parties had positive intentions.
If Sony successfully completes the acquisition of Bandai, it will be the largest acquisition in Sony's history, so 10:00 Yue Shu is very attentive to this acquisition, and in order to increase the acquisition chips at 10:00, Yue Shu also plans to sell Sony's financial business worth more than $10 billion (CTOnews.com Note: about 73.1 billion RMB currently).
AlexSmitk also said that Sony's announcement of the acquisition of Bandai will be announced at the beginning of Sony's next financial year (CTOnews.com Note: after March next year). Sony's move will also help to counter Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
