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Paramount+ is at 71 million subscribers, it only launched in 2021.

Huh? not necessarily

Paramount did not launch in 2021, it BOUGHT CBS Access in 2021, at the time CBS had millions of subscribers as it was out since 2014, so.....no, they didn't launch in 2021 and gain 71 million subscribers. I see the point you are making, but we need clarity and context to get the full picture.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/...ew-name-rebrand-2021-international-disney-hbo

Netflix hit 100 million subscribers in 2017. Netflix launched streaming in 2007.

Yes, but that was also the start of a lot of that, as they built the concept of how a lot of this would work (culturally anyway). So 100 million is an amazing feat regardless, but maybe more amazing then vs now. The blueprint has already been made.

With almost 270 million, Netflix is the one to beat and aim for right now and I think this purchase of Paramount is a solid buy if true based on what Sony is seeking with those streaming purchases. I kept thinking they'd make some Anime streaming thing when they bought Funimation and CrunchyRoll, but I have no clue what Sony is aiming to do. Legally, I don't know if they can even do some mega streaming thing like Sony Streaming etc will all of them combined lol

Won't be surprised if they buy Tidal next.

Maybe...lol

 

[Badlucktroll]

Maybe they would figure out the event horizon directors cut. thats a paramount property. they could use ai

 

[Pelta88]

I think people are missing both context and potential. Some of the most popular ip on streaming platforms is produced by SIE.

 

[bitbydeath]

Also, again, Sony management is short changing the gaming division which is by far more profitable to prop up their middling movie division

Paramount do own a few gaming companies which they can shift into PlayStation. Would be great to see a new South Park game with PlayStation money behind it.

 

[Topher]

Someone make sure Sony realizes the price being negotiated is in dollars.....not yen.

 

[Varteras]

Someone make sure Sony realizes the price being negotiated is in dollars.....not yen.

Don't worry. Sony is broke. They can't make huge purchases. Pretty sure this is one of those Onion articles.

 

[yurinka]

Sony does almost nothing to connect PlayStation to Sony pictures. Idk why anyone would ever think this would impact PlayStation any time soon.

Edit: Before you comment, PlayStation is driving the Movie/TV stuff (Twisted Metal, TLOU) not Sony pictures.

In addition to make movies of stuff like Monster Hunter, Metal Gear Solid or Zelda, they have over 10 projects in the works at PlayStation Productions, movie, tv show or anime adaptations of SIE IPs.

PlayStations Productions is a Sony Pictures and SIE joint venture. Plus there's the game adaptations of stuff like Ghostbusters, which also got guest content in games like PS Home, Little Big Planet, Destiny 2 and so on.

Why tf would Sony want to buy Paramount plus?

Sony made an offer to acquire the whole Paramount Global, which yearly generates $30B in revenue and $10B in gross profit and includes a ton of stuff. If they end acquiring them pretty likely will make a huge restructuring, may shut down many things and will move their content to Sony services, channels, etc.

If I was Sony I'd merge all their whole available catalof from Sony and Paramount movies, tv series, tv shows, paid tv channels, animation, anime and music in a single service that would have store, individual rental or subscription with different layers. And I'd migrate all the user libraries and subscriptions there.

$26B for a company with a market cap of $9B and also losing money (negative EPS).

It's a company with a steady yearly revenue of $30B, gross profit of $10B and a shit ton of assets and IPs. They have operating costs eating these profits since 5 years ago, but Sony could easily axe a huge chunk of them because many of the things they do already have people to do them at Sony.

It also has enough market share to put Sony as the market leader in Hollywood after the acquisition.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Huh? not necessarily

Paramount did not launch in 2021, it BOUGHT CBS Access in 2021, at the time CBS had millions of subscribers as it was out since 2014, so.....no, they didn't launch in 2021 and gain 71 million subscribers. I see the point you are making, but we need clarity and context to get the full picture.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/...ew-name-rebrand-2021-international-disney-hbo

Okay, so 71 million users since 2014... that's not bad for your first 10 years.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/...ew-name-rebrand-2021-international-disney-hbo

Yes, but that was also the start of a lot of that, as they built the concept of how a lot of this would work (culturally anyway). So 100 million is an amazing feat regardless, but maybe more amazing then vs now. The blueprint has already been made.

With almost 270 million, Netflix is the one to beat and aim for right now and I think this purchase of Paramount is a solid buy if true based on what Sony is seeking with those streaming purchases. I kept thinking they'd make some Anime streaming thing when they bought Funimation and CrunchyRoll, but I have no clue what Sony is aiming to do. Legally, I don't know if they can even do some mega streaming thing like Sony Streaming etc will all of them combined lol

Netflix had to build out the concept, but they also had no competition.

You don't need to "beat" Netflix, but Netflix certainly is a model to massively increase Sony's Market Cap in a way that they've been unable to do simply by being dominant in console gaming. Sony rolled Funimation into Crunchyroll. It's the clear leader in Anime in most parts of the world outside of Japan.

I don't know what would prevent them from doing a bundled streaming service, but again, not just streaming, you throw in PS+ in there too and then when you look at PC and you're already paying for Sony+ the question become more clear why not utilize Sony's PC Storefront that you're already paying for membership with. You have 100 people who are unpaid Crunchyroll users, the ability to convert them into paid customers rather than just farm their advertising is huge.

Maybe...lol

Sony is massive in the music world. It would only make sense that they cut out the middle man and try to stream their own music and Tidal could be a platform for that and create downward competition against Spotify and Apple Music.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:paramount_Pictures_franchises

Here's a complete list that Paramount owns or made in partner with and transformers is in there which in theory sony can use another publisher not Microsoft own to make transformers there's alot of gaming opportunities like World War z not only that u can make kid games like rugrats , spongebob etc , open world games like tmnt , mission Impossible,

thanks I didn't need the list and not all of that Paramount actually owns the rights to.

I do think Sony needs to take another stab at becoming family friendly again. They've just dismissed that entire segment to Nintendo.

 

[jason10mm]

Fucking 1883 Pleaseeeee

It's called Oregon Trail

"You took a shit in the bushes.....got bit by a rattlesnake....you died"

 

[Silver Wattle]

We might actually get something good out of star trek, it's been too long.