Is Microsoft capable of buying out Sony?

Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

Not even close. Sony is huge with a bunch of divisions. It's not just a gaming company.

Not even close. Sony is huge with a bunch of divisions. It's not just a gaming company.

Guybrush_3

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Not even close. Sony is huge with a bunch of divisions. It's not just a gaming company.

Trmpt

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Not even close. Sony is huge with a bunch of divisions. It's not just a gaming company.

Trmpt

They could but am sure sony did learn from mistakes done this gen and make sure not to repeat them next-gen in order to get back a huge part of its market share and try to get back to no.1 position.. So Sony wont sell out its gaming division, its still one of its biggest assets..

Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

Trmpt

im pretty sure there are laws against that kind of stuff

I dont think so. And it wouldnt be a cleaver idea. Competition is healthy for the market

im pretty sure there are laws against that kind of stuff

linkin_guy109

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

surrealnumber5

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

J_Swayze

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

surrealnumber5

Sony Corporation is much bigger than Microsoft , go check the list of the biggest corporations in the world at WikipediaKurdish-Gamer

Ugh this is "System Wars" not "Company Wars".

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

SaudiFury

Theoretically, yes -- but not only would it be expensive, but also would or could violate multiple monopoly laws.Stevo_the_gamer

Sony Corporation is much bigger than Microsoft , go check the list of the biggest corporations in the world at WikipediaKurdish-Gamer

Edit- I just looked

Microsoft is worth $199 billion

Sony is worth $24 billion

So Microsoft is worth 8 times what Sony is worth

[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]Theoretically, yes -- but not only would it be expensive, but also would or could violate multiple monopoly laws.jwsoul

[QUOTE="Kurdish-Gamer"]Sony Corporation is much bigger than Microsoft , go check the list of the biggest corporations in the world at Wikipediarybe1025

[QUOTE="rybe1025"][QUOTE="Kurdish-Gamer"]Sony Corporation is much bigger than Microsoft , go check the list of the biggest corporations in the world at Wikipediasurrealnumber5

Edit-The bid was $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo I just checked

Was wrong about the time when it happened also

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="rybe1025"]First off Wki sucks for info. Go to Forbes or something like Forbes. The look at the market value for each company and Microsoft is worth around 6 times more then Sony.rybe1025

Edit-The bid was $44 billion I just checked

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] that is only because 80% of sony's assets are payed for with debt surrealnumber5

Edit-The bid was $44 billion I just checked

[QUOTE="SaudiFury"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] high end electronics are on the decline, why would microsoft want to buy sony? surrealnumber5

I'd like to see GE buy Microsoft. :Pdouble_heist

They could. But then you have to ask yourself *why* they'd buy a failing company like sony?

Oh god...

Yes sony, one of the biggest hardware companies in thw wrrld, who manufacture nearly every electronic imaginable and most to great success...

I doubt MS could even get sonys mobile branch...

no

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="rybe1025"]First off Wki sucks for info. Go to Forbes or something like Forbes. The look at the market value for each company and Microsoft is worth around 6 times more then Sony.rybe1025

Edit-The bid was $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo I just checked

Was wrong about the time when it happened also

All you guys are little kids what doesn't under, no they could not, yahoo is a horrible search engine and a email service, they arn't worth anything nearly as much as sony.

Sony is a huge corporation, what does things from make Mp3 players, dvd player to Producing movies.....If Microsoft could buy out sony they would have tried

Sony would cost hundreds of billions to buy out

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] that is only because 80% of sony's assets are payed for with debt LordDhampire

Edit-The bid was $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo I just checked

Was wrong about the time when it happened also

All you guys are little kids what doesn't under, no they could not, yahoo is a horrible search engine and a email service, they arn't worth anything nearly as much as sony.

Sony is a huge corporation, what does things from make Mp3 players, dvd player to Producing movies.....If Microsoft could buy out sony they would have tried

Sony would cost hundreds of billions to buy out

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] that is only because 80% of sony's assets are payed for with debt LordDhampire

Edit-The bid was $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo I just checked

Was wrong about the time when it happened also

All you guys are little kids what doesn't under, no they could not, yahoo is a horrible search engine and a email service, they arn't worth anything nearly as much as sony.

Sony is a huge corporation, what does things from make Mp3 players, dvd player to Producing movies.....If Microsoft could buy out sony they would have tried

Sony would cost hundreds of billions to buy out

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that is only because 80% of sony's assets are payed for with debt surrealnumber5

Edit-The bid was $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo I just checked

Was wrong about the time when it happened also

All you guys are little kids what doesn't under, no they could not, yahoo is a horrible search engine and a email service, they arn't worth anything nearly as much as sony.

Sony is a huge corporation, what does things from make Mp3 players, dvd player to Producing movies.....If Microsoft could buy out sony they would have tried

Sony would cost hundreds of billions to buy out

Not even close. Sony is huge with a bunch of divisions. It's not just a gaming company.

Guybrush_3

Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

Trmpt

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

dethroned3

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

sony has more assets but its equity is far lower, most of sony's worth is debt

ASSETS - LIABILITIES = Owners/shareholders equity or Assets = owners/shareholders equity + liabilities

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

dethroned3

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

Trmpt

Microsoft had net profits of 20 billion a year for the last decade. With such huge profits I see no reason why MS couldn't lend nearly infinite money if needed to buy a company of Sonys size. Sonys Market Value was only worth about 48 billion $ (its less then nintendos) in early 2008 and has probably dropped a lot by now.

Even if Sonys stockholders would demand a ridicoules amount of money for their stock MS could easily attain enough fundings for it if they wanted.

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Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

Trmpt

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

not long ago someone gave reputable statistics that sony was worth more than microsoft.
guess i'll have to personally look into this

Can US companies just go out and buy foreign companies?

Can US companies just go out and buy foreign companies?

hakanakumono