konami isnt only a videogame company lol, youre telling me microsoft is gonna buy yu gi oh nahhhhh

"A pOpULAr TeCH cOmmEnTeR"

The individual who started vomiting this nonsense about an acquisition of Sega and Konami is a rando moron named Astal on Twitter. That nimrod has a history of tweeting absolute nonsense. Whether it's about tech or games, that guy has no clue on what he talks about and REPEATEDLY gets proven wrong. YES, REPEATEDLY!!

Just to give you an example, there was an XBox livestream where Phil Spencer's circular strobelight was being reflected from a black screen behind him. The strobelight was used to illuminate Phil's face. The "genius" Astal looked at that and - GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW - concluded that Microsoft was aquiring From Software and making Elden Ring exclusive to XBox... even though Elden Ring was also announced for Playstation AND Sony owns stake in Kodakawa, From Software's parent company!!!! I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING!!!!

Why in the world would you guys write an article on this garbage. Seriously, THIS IS YOUR "JOURNALISM"??

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

SEGA and Konami are two companies that are financially doing well. And even if they would not, they would seek a fusion with a JAPANESE company and not with american Microsoft. Ridiculous Xbox Fan Fiction.

Quite disappointed by the news on this website recently. Notebookcheck used to be a more serious place than random twitter-fueld clickbait news site.

I hope the German owners will fix things here a bit...

Quote from: j on March 15, 2021, 03:30:02
They just spent $7.5 billion dollars on Bethesda, they're not going to spend another couple billion dollars so soon. Yes Microsoft is rich, but its going to take years for the actual Xbox division to recoup that money. Also neither one makes any sense as Xbox will never be popular in Japan and buying them and making their games exclusive would just kill the publishers. It amazes me dumb people even want this to happen. Its horrible for the industry when a giant conglomerate comes in and forcibly takes it over. The gaming industry is dead if MS just keeps buying all the major publishers.

ms made 14 billion profit in one quarter...the 7.5 billion is change found in the sofa Phil sits on in the lobby.

Your giant conglomerate were Sony when they entered the gaming market many times bigger than both sega and nintendo combined...who bought developers left and right to crush competition.

To the numpty who thinks sega cant be owned by an american company read a history book was owned by serveral and founded by an american Too boot.

I don't care who owns what I just want another Silent Hill game since we all got the teaser but never a full game. Instead we got the hiking/mail man simulator.

Ok Julien Chieze

1. Xbox never had a strong presence in Japan unlike SONY and the Big N. Even though, SONY on the other hand has started to become westernized as of recent history, especially closing their Japanese studios and giving their Japanese audience the "bird".

2. MS tried pulling this stunt with their attempt to buy Nintendo, another Japanese company TWICE, during the tail end of the N64 era and midway during GameCube era and the Big N gave MS the "bird". Nintendo, JUST like SEGA and Konami, are Kabushiki Kaisha style companies. Despite that those three Japanese companies have operations in America, they can't be bought by an American company.

3. Konami as a company, IS NOT struggling whatsoever given they have a HUGE pachinko business operation in Japan and most international countries. It just so happens that nowadays, they are hardly active in the video game industry segment. Plus, they still work on the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG line and that's still going strong, even in the mobile gaming markets.

4. SEGA on the other hand, is not doing well, but even then, they would NEVER give in to an American company despite having a strong relationship with MS during the Dreamcast and OG Xbox days. If anything, SEGA, and maybe Konami would be better off having strong relations with Nintendo. IF, God forbid, they were to become westernized like SONY is currently, then there could be talks about a buyout. But otherwise, it WILL NOT happen. Besides, it was constantly debunked time and time again.

I have NO idea how this shady article end up in my recommendations. It's clickbait and total misinformation. But I will also go on record and say that MS as a company, is greedy asl

They just spent $7.5 billion dollars on Bethesda, they're not going to spend another couple billion dollars so soon. Yes Microsoft is rich, but its going to take years for the actual Xbox division to recoup that money. Also neither one makes any sense as Xbox will never be popular in Japan and buying them and making their games exclusive would just kill the publishers. It amazes me dumb people even want this to happen. Its horrible for the industry when a giant conglomerate comes in and forcibly takes it over. The gaming industry is dead if MS just keeps buying all the major publishers.

Not going to happen. Both companies are Kabushiki Kaisha's which means they cannot be straight up bought out buy a foreign corporation. Konami and Sega could sell IP's to Microsoft or they could strike exclusivity deals, but no buyouts.

A lot people just assume Konami is struggling. What many people don't know is that Konami has a strong presence in the casino gaming industry. Konami is not struggling in the least bit. Sega on the otherhand, well they merged with Sammy so I'm not sure how that would exactly work.

this site is pure trash, the absolutely most useless, unsubstantiated, uninformed drek imaginable. b e g o n e from my recommendations.

I hope nintendo buys up konami and sega because nintendo cares about old ips and listens more to it's fan base  and it shows when compared to either sony or microsoft.

Ah fux off you greedy bastards.

First, this wont happen due to Japanese national pride. They will prefer to have Nintendo/Sony buying out those two instead of selling them to some international company.

Second, Microsoft is worst than Sony when it comes to managing IP. They have killed a lot of projects/products in the blink of an eye.