Sony finalizes the acquisition of the Anime Crunchyroll Streaming Service and aims for a unified offer - News - Gamekul
Announced in December of last year, the acquisition of the Anime Crunchyroll streaming service by Sony for the $ 1.175 billion round sum is now. And Sony takes the opportunity to clarify his projects, now that he is in a situation of almost monopoly on this sector. With a desired will to unify its different offers.
It is now acted: the Crunchyroll platform is now at Sony's hands, or more specifically between those of funanimation, a subsidiary co-owned by Sony Pictures and Sony Music. It was Warnermedia who gave up her for the modest sum of $ 1.175 billion, in order to mop up the colossal debts of her mother house at & T before she separated from her subsidiary in May. Sony has now in its giron the three biggest services of specialized streaming in the animation: Wakanim, Anime Digital Network and Crunchroll. This is no less than 5 million paying subscribers and more than 120 million registered users who are now be customers from Sony Corporation.
With the arrival of Crunchyroll, we have an unprecedented opportunity to serve animal fans like never before and to make them live the experience of the anime on all the platforms they choose: movie theaters , Events, Home Entertainment, Games, Streaming, Linear Television - Everywhere and in all ways whose fans want to live their anime. Our goal is to create a unified subscription experience for animates as soon as possible. said Tony Vincierra, CEO of Sony Pictures. This desire to unify the different offers could also bring Sony to propose access to its anime streaming services to the PlayStation Plus subscribers, as suggested by this declaration of vincquera and seem to confirm our confreres d 'Eurogamer. Sony's goal is to achieve this unification as soon as possible, we should have a clear heart soon.
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