Two sources have leaked that Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa Corporation. You may not be familiar with this name, but when I tell you, it is Mrowns almost 70% of FromSoftware’s shares You will surely realize the importance of this company in the world of video games.

FromSoftware has games and franchises as important as Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Sekiro and Elden Ringand was also responsible for the development of the well-known and acclaimed Bloodborne. Interestingly, Sony already signed an equity alliance with Kadokawa in 2021 and made a direct investment to buy a small amount of FromSoftware shares the following year.

Buying Kadokawa Corporation would be a very important operation for Sony for obvious reasons, as the Japanese company would acquire some of the most important franchises in the world of video games and could make them exclusive total or partial PlayStation, but that is not the only reason why the Japanese company is interested in this operation.

There is one more key point in this possible purchase operation and that is Kadokawa is the owner of Dwango, which is the parent company of others like Spike Chunsoft, Gotcha Gotcha Games, and Acquire, responsible for games like Zero Scape, RPG Maker, and Tenchu, among many others. As if that wasn’t enough, the company also owns several manga and anime franchises that generate a lot of money around the world.

With all that on the table, it’s easy to see why Sony might be so interested in acquiring Kadokawa Coporation. This operation would give it a large amount of franchises and intellectual property that it could use to improve its catalog of games on its console, as well as create new franchises based on new IPs. It would be a very profitable operation.

We still don’t have official confirmation, but fans of FromSoftware games have already expressed their concerns about this purchase operation, believing that Sony could make the studio’s franchises exclusive to PlayStation. keep calm which is unlikelyespecially given the success and money they’re making on other platforms, especially PC.

At the time of writing, Kadokawa Corporation shares increased by 23%, So it’s clear that investors were bullish on this possible Sony buyout operation.