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Their previous, wildly successful game funded GI. And no, Tencent aren't involved- they're competitors with Mihoyo. Lotta reporting that Genshin is basically eating their lunch, cutting into their mobile gaming profits.
Eidos is not a mobile company, not it is a U.S. one and Eidos is owned by Square Enix.
That's the size of their warchest.
The amount of money they have is not important really to any acquisition price. You would want to look at total Market Cap to start simply. The common focus on Nintendo's cash on hand routinely misses the point of a public company's finances and ownership structure. Still, Nintendo is far outside of the $10bil price range
Just thought it was Ludicrous to think that 8 billion could net you Nintendo.
Why would they do that though? Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and Square Enix Montreal are not worth much without their IPs. I am certainly not sure they would be worth billions for that matter.
Tencent being mainly a Chinese stock play makes it hard when talking about acquisitions of Western, Japanese or Korean companies due to Chinese regulations around stock ownership. Hence why most of Tencent's western acquisitions were cash (at least from what I remember seeing).
Japanese government would probably not let the buyout happen even if shareholders were willing.
It won't be Ubisoft. Tencent bought a 5% share of ubisoft a few years ago to help them fight off the vivendi hostile takeover but part of the deal was that tencent can't increase its ownership.
