Does Japan not have... like... an anti monopoly board. This is an insane merger to even consider. It would make an entity so large it could dominate multiple media industries.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Japan is worse for corporate control than even the US.
There's a reason dystopian megacorps are oftentimes depicted in a cyberpunk world cluttered with Japanese neon signs.
Look up zaibatsu, Japan has a LONG history of conglomeration
But allowing an effectively American corporation to take over? (SIE HQ is in San Mateo, California)
Why’d Sony Interactive take them over? If anything it’d be the Sony group, which is japanese.
Sony would essentially own the anime and manga industry and be able to dictate monetization practices as well as trends. I find that even more concerning than the Fromsoft acquisition and that's saying something. Nothing good can come from this whatsoever.
M$ monopolizes swathes of the game industry (and several other computer related areas) while Sony monopolizes nearly everything else media related. This is NOT how market competition is supposed to happen.
BTW, Gotcha Gotcha Games is the owner of RPG Maker and Pixel Game Maker, make of that what you will.
I don't think Nintendo would like Spike Chunsoft going away.
They developed Wii Play: Motion. That game came with a free wiimote! I loved that game!
Also Fire Pro World.
And some of the 3ds street pass stuff too