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 Crun...