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Warner Bros. gaming division for sale (Update: Microsoft going for it)
And the current companies interested in buying WB games are Take-Two, EA and Activision Blizzard, a deal that may be worth around $4 billion chatter indicates
According to CNBC, potential buyers include Take-Two Interactive, Electronic Arts, and Activision Blizzard, though nothing has yet been confirmed, that has to be stated
WBIE currently owns a large mix of studios including TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Boston, Montreal, New York, San Diego, and San Francisco, as well as the Portkey Games publishing label for games set in the Harry Potter universe.
No deal is assured or imminent, CNBC said. WBIE has 10 game studios, which David Haddad heads. The company makes a wide array of games such as Harry Potter, Lego, Mortal Kombat, Batman Arkham, and Game of Thrones. It also has quirky mobile titles like Golf Clash, and this year it’s launching Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. WB also partnered with IO Interactive last year for an unspecified multi-IP deal -- though it does not appear to be publishing IO's Hitman 3, which was announced last week.
Update: Microsoft has shown interest in the acquisition of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. This would get Microsoft studios responsible for, among others, Batman and Mortal Kombat games.
If the information from two sources of The Information is correct, Microsoft will join the other interested parties in the acquisition of WB Interactive, Activision Blizzard, EA and Take Two. The Warner Bros. Game Division is now owned by AT&T, but that company would buy considering to reduce its debt of $ 165 billion.
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#5799717 Posted on: 06/15/2020 04:38 PM
Whoever buys this will have more than $4billion in IP and company sales ahead of them.
I really do not know why WB does not just do this instead: sell off your IP and company/studios independently to the highest bidder as a kind of fire sale.
I guess when your company is negative $165 thousand million in the hole, you just want to feather everyone's nest, instead of looking at the long-term implications.
TLDR: the parts are worth more than the whole.
Whoever buys this will have more than $4billion in IP and company sales ahead of them.
I really do not know why WB does not just do this instead: sell off your IP and company/studios independently to the highest bidder as a kind of fire sale.
I guess when your company is negative $165 thousand million in the hole, you just want to feather everyone's nest, instead of looking at the long-term implications.
TLDR: the parts are worth more than the whole.
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#5799721 Posted on: 06/15/2020 05:39 PM
Warner Brothers , you're not supposed to sell the parts of your company which actually make profit , It's the other way round
Warner Brothers , you're not supposed to sell the parts of your company which actually make profit , It's the other way round
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#5799729 Posted on: 06/15/2020 05:59 PM
How much! Its never gonna happen. Mark Hamill does not do the joker anymore.
How much! Its never gonna happen. Mark Hamill does not do the joker anymore.
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#5799741 Posted on: 06/15/2020 06:29 PM
Warner still has the rights to some of these characters and the D.C universe and all that far as Batman and games in this vein goes.
Mortal Kombat and Injustice might have some interested parties though as this has gotten a resurgence in popularity so I can see bids for this franchise and possibly also the current studio developing it.
Maybe a few others not too sure what they have (The Lego games or just some of them around the D.C universe?) but from what I am reading AT&T picked up WB and some others for what 80B and now they're trying to cover for some 200B debt and some other changes so this for 4B seems like a pretty small amount but it's something and then well I guess it depends on who buys it or which parts of the gaming division if it's traded or auctioned between from the sounds of it a few private interested parties.
Kall of Kombat....yeah maybe Activision won't be doing that.
EDIT: Eh it won't happen, they'll be right there with studios like Raven working on those map packs if Activision picks them up. ~
Warner still has the rights to some of these characters and the D.C universe and all that far as Batman and games in this vein goes.
Mortal Kombat and Injustice might have some interested parties though as this has gotten a resurgence in popularity so I can see bids for this franchise and possibly also the current studio developing it.
Maybe a few others not too sure what they have (The Lego games or just some of them around the D.C universe?) but from what I am reading AT&T picked up WB and some others for what 80B and now they're trying to cover for some 200B debt and some other changes so this for 4B seems like a pretty small amount but it's something and then well I guess it depends on who buys it or which parts of the gaming division if it's traded or auctioned between from the sounds of it a few private interested parties.
Kall of Kombat....yeah maybe Activision won't be doing that.
EDIT: Eh it won't happen, they'll be right there with studios like Raven working on those map packs if Activision picks them up. ~
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Let Bobby Kotick bury it, he it good with it.