{"id":199549,"date":"2024-12-21T03:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/sony-to-become-top-shareholder-of-fromsoftware-parent-kadokawa\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T03:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T03:11:06","slug":"sony-to-become-top-shareholder-of-fromsoftware-parent-kadokawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/sony-to-become-top-shareholder-of-fromsoftware-parent-kadokawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to Become Top Shareholder of FromSoftware Parent Kadokawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/sony_reuters_1682672255084.jpg?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sony to Become Top Shareholder of FromSoftware Parent Kadokawa\" title=\"Sony to Become Top Shareholder of FromSoftware Parent Kadokawa\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sony\u00a0Group said on Thursday it will invest about JPY 50 billion ($320 million or roughly Rs. 2,722 crore) to acquire new shares of Kadokawa, raising its stake in the Japanese media powerhouse to around 10 percent and becoming Kadokawa&#8217;s top shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Through the capital alliance,\u00a0<a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/sony\">Sony<\/a>\u00a0and <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/kadokawa\">Kadokawa<\/a>, which have already worked together on various projects, plan to strengthen their collaboration, such as joint investments in the content field and joint discovery of new creators, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is likely to bolster\u00a0Sony&#8217;s entertainment portfolio, which spans games, movies, music and anime, with Kadokawa controlling <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/fromsoftware\">FromSoftware<\/a>, which has a track record of well-received games including &#8220;Elden Ring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/games\/news\/sony-top-shareholder-media-powerhouse-fromsoftware-parent-kadokawa-7292164#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u00a0Group said on Thursday it will invest about JPY 50 billion ($320 million or roughly Rs. 2,722 crore) to acquire new shares of Kadokawa, raising its stake in the Japanese media powerhouse to around 10 percent and becoming Kadokawa&#8217;s top shareholder. Through the capital alliance,\u00a0Sony\u00a0and Kadokawa, which have already worked together on various projects, plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/sony_reuters_1682672255084.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[55172,139754,14270,23009,12730,156631,1846],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199551,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199549\/revisions\/199551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}