Sony is reportedly in talks to buy Crunchyroll for nearly $1 billion

eyeliner · Nov 2, 2020

Silent_Gunner said:
Hah! With how much Sony is becoming Soyny, those waifus will be a thing of the past! If anything, you'll be seeing more women covered up and men will be getting all the bath scenes now, and eventually, Japan will just go, "fuck this," stop bothering with even considering releasing their stuff to the west, and then it will be back to the 90's when all you had were fansubs, which may not always translate things 100% accurately.

Sony is Japanese, so I don't see them alienate their own market.
Not that this move is important to me, but if this really get on as a perk, the brand is hoping to branch out.
It might actually work to get some subs.

Julie_Pilgrim · Nov 2, 2020

Reshiban said:
WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?! Please don't add DRMs to Crunchyroll ;-;

Crunchyroll already has drm tho

the_randomizer said:
AT&T sucks ass

as someone who has atnt, this post is extremely true

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Silent_Gunner said:
men will be getting all the bath scenes now

I wish

Reshiban · Nov 2, 2020

Scott_pilgrim said:
Crunchyroll already has drm tho

Ah ?

Because a simple right click on the video can download it, where are the DRM ?

Julie_Pilgrim · Nov 2, 2020

Reshiban said:
Ah ? Because a simple right click on the video can download it, where are the DRM ?

Wait, really? What does it download the video as tho

Reshiban · Nov 2, 2020

Wait what?

!!!!!!

Idk when they updated the website, but I remember before you can download it with a simple right click or a simple extension which detect medias on the web page ;-;

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@Scott_pilgrim They added a fragments security now, but youtube-dl must be able to download it

JeepX87 · Nov 2, 2020

stanleyopar2000 said:
RIP VRV.

Do not utter such heresy.

I'm just sarcastic with stance on Comcast, so Sony and Comcast are bad anyway.

ChaosEternal · Nov 2, 2020

eyeliner said:
Sony is Japanese, so I don't see them alienate their own market.

They already did that with their gaming division. Granted, that was after the division inverted and became US-based, so the same wouldn't necessarily be true with Crunchyroll.

CMDreamer · Nov 2, 2020

Why does Sony keep searching for a way to ruin user experience even further?

Julie_Pilgrim · Nov 2, 2020

CMDreamer said:
Why does Sony keep searching for a way to ruin user experience even further?

Idk, I feel like we are gonna have another ps3 scenario with sony getting too cocky

Silent_Gunner · Nov 2, 2020

Scott_pilgrim said:
Idk, I feel like we are gonna have another ps3 scenario with sony getting too cocky

I heard that pre-orders for the PS5 are rising. As for how much compared to the Sexbox? Who knows for sure.

Deleted User · Nov 2, 2020

leon315 said:
Since WHEN $ony became EA?

when people started replacing the S with $

raxadian · Nov 2, 2020

At this rate Sony will buy the Neptunia series and make a not quite Sony spinoff.

MiiJack · Nov 2, 2020

Reshiban said:
but youtube-dl must be able to download it

Microsoft axed that thing. Granted, there should be mirrors out there.

FAST6191 · Nov 2, 2020

MiiJack said:
Microsoft axed that thing. Granted, there should be mirrors out there.

Did Microsoft pull the trigger or was it the RIAA? The main complaint I saw was from the music peeps. MS just owned the source code site and had to do the DMCA response part.

eyeliner said:
Sony is Japanese, so I don't see them alienate their own market.

They have been doing a pretty good job of it for the last few years.

Though I am curious if Sony having an foot in the Japanese world might get easier access to things than might be now if they have an army of staff and rights lawyers already speaking Japanese and knowing something of the way the rest of the world plays.

Aew4life · Nov 2, 2020

Complete waste on sonys end

FAST6191 · Nov 2, 2020

Aew4life said:
Complete waste on sonys end

I don't know if I can get there.

They are the biggest game in town, the market for anime is massive and probably still has a fair bit of growth in it should it be handled properly, and they took a fair while clawing their way up there. Sony buying it eliminates a competitor, gives them instant access to a market, gives them instant back catalogue to play with (don't know how many years the average anime house would have given non Japan and non Korea rights to them for), and potentially the option to leverage it in a more exclusive manner (next xperia comes with free crunchyroll sort of thing).

I don't know that I would drop a billion on it as Sony presumably already has media streaming services, and could spin something up fairly quickly (as mentioned above with Sony still maintaining a foot in Japan then they would likely have all the little anime houses ready to pounce at the chance of working with them much like everybody works with EA or something in games, probably with similar end results but hey).

Julie_Pilgrim · Nov 2, 2020

Oh no, they’re gonna make a mediocre service worse

Goku1992A · Nov 2, 2020

Here is my personal take on it if you are a PS Plus member they should just give you Fundimation and Crunchyroll for free. Why own something and still make your PS plus subscribers pay for them separately

Then again I can access my anime for free from different websites I'm already paying for Netflix I cant keep on jumping from subscription to subscription

Aew4life · Nov 2, 2020

FAST6191 said:
I don't know if I can get there.

They are the biggest game in town, the market for anime is massive and probably still has a fair bit of growth in it should it be handled properly, and they took a fair while clawing their way up there. Sony buying it eliminates a competitor, gives them instant access to a market, gives them instant back catalogue to play with (don't know how many years the average anime house would have given non Japan and non Korea rights to them for), and potentially the option to leverage it in a more exclusive manner (next xperia comes with free crunchyroll sort of thing).

I don't know that I would drop a billion on it as Sony presumably already has media streaming services, and could spin something up fairly quickly (as mentioned above with Sony still maintaining a foot in Japan then they would likely have all the little anime houses ready to pounce at the chance of working with them much like everybody works with EA or something in games, probably with similar end results but hey).

I

FAST6191 said:
I don't know if I can get there.

They are the biggest game in town, the market for anime is massive and probably still has a fair bit of growth in it should it be handled properly, and they took a fair while clawing their way up there. Sony buying it eliminates a competitor, gives them instant access to a market, gives them instant back catalogue to play with (don't know how many years the average anime house would have given non Japan and non Korea rights to them for), and potentially the option to leverage it in a more exclusive manner (next xperia comes with free crunchyroll sort of thing).

I don't know that I would drop a billion on it as Sony presumably already has media streaming services, and could spin something up fairly quickly (as mentioned above with Sony still maintaining a foot in Japan then they would likely have all the little anime houses ready to pounce at the chance of working with them much like everybody works with EA or something in games, probably with similar end results but hey).

I actually agree great post

Bladexdsl · Nov 2, 2020

rip crunchyroll soon to be censoredroll

Has an itch needing to be scratched.

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