News business After Activision-Blizzard and Bungie, towards a potential takeover of Warner Bros by Microsoft or Sony?
Published on 04/30/2022 at 14:04
While takeovers have been in the news in the video game industry for some time now, speculation regarding new acquisitions is rife. Today, it is journalist Imran Khan who is fueling the rumors by raising the possibility that the gaming division of Warner Bros is subject to a takeover.
Warner Bros, next acquisition of the industry giants?
In the video game industry, it seems clear that redemptions are in fashion. While Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is well underwaywhat Sony recently acquired Bungie and that the Japanese giant is at the heart additional takeover rumorstoday new speculation comes to us through the journalist Imran Khan. The latter evokes the case of the gaming division of Warner Bros. Apparently, the studio would be rather inclined towards a takeover.
Couldn’t get enough confirmation to actually write a post regarding it, but hearing a decent bit of chatter this week regarding WB Discovery shopping their game development studios around.
— Imran Khan (@imranzomg) April 29, 2022
It must be said that Warner Bros has more than one asset to convince potential buyers. With licenses like Batman Arkham, Gotham Knights, Injusticeor Suicide Squad and the long awaited Hogwarts Legacythere is no doubt that this takeover would interest more than one.
On this point, Imran Khan also continues and gives the identity of the interested parties. According to him, Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts, Tencent, NetEase, Take-Two as well as PUBG Corp would be on the spot. Beautiful people therefore, but a statement that is still in the state of rumor. Because as is often the case, this information is to be taken with a grain of salt while nothing has been confirmed.
Tweezers once more and once more
This kind of information rarely leaks, while the big firms are particularly cautious regarding these financial movements. As shown by the difficulty that Microsoft encounters in definitively acquiring Activision Blizzard, this type of takeover involving several billion dollars is subject to a large number of controls. Of course, such transactions do not happen overnight.
As a result, it is rare to obtain concrete information before these transactions are regarding to take place. As Imran Khan himself says, if the takeover of Warner Bros comes up with insistence in conversations and is supported by several journalists, he cannot affirm anything officially, for lack of tangible proof.
Anyway, this new rumor joins the long list of takeovers on which the press speculates while the latest sent Sony to acquire From Softwarewhile Kojima Productions was mentioned just before. Case to follow.
Par SengsunnWriting jeuxvideo.com
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