Comment on Sony is in talks to buy Dark Souls and Elden Ring parent company Kadokawa
shani66@ani.social 4 weeks agoThat’s not just what’s at stake. Kadokawa is a massive company and this will hurt industries from books to anime to game development outside of fromsoft. On the publishing and consumer facing sides, btw. Apparently they even own a few scientific and tourism endeavors!
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, i researched a bit what they do and it’s worse than I anticipated.
shani66@ani.social 4 weeks ago
This could unironically be a dark age for Japanese culture, if our experience with sony in Western circles is indicative of anything