Here is a scenario that no one imagined, namely the takeover of the Kadokawa company by Sony Interactive Entertainment. However, it is the rumors from the corridors that are circulating this morning according to the indiscretions of the Reuters press agencywho managed to obtain confidential information. Of course, what emerges in the press headlines is that Kadokawa owns the FromSoftware entity, the studio behind the Dark Souls series and even Elden Ring.
But Kadokawa is above all a multimedia giant in Japan, which also owns Spike Chunsoft, but also the Niconico platform (the Japanese YouTube), the magazines Enterbrain and Famitsu to name just these two. The primary idea for Sony Interactive Entertainment in wanting to buy Kadokawa is not to target FromSoftware above all, but to strengthen its multimedia catalog, which is becoming one of the sinews of war at a time when video games are not enough to become a giant of popular culture. In any case, even if this acquisition were to take place, nothing tells us that FromSoftware will automatically become a PlayStation studio and that it will continue to make games on other platforms, as is the case with Bungie at Sony, or Activision at Xbox.
