Valve Anime Studios

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Imagine Valve buying major anime studios like Crunchyroll or Kyoto animations

[Start_Running]

Waste of money

[Seraphita]

Portal: The anime. Or Half-Life, the Anime. Except none ever go beyond 2 episodes.

[Bibo1]

Then they would make 1 movie every 10-15 years.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

denisbespalov659 lähetti viestin:

Imagine Valve buying major anime studios like Crunchyroll or Kyoto animations

They partnered with Crunchyroll in the past to bring anime to Steam but that venture failed to make any profit.

I don't think purchasing them would yield better results.

[Sasori Kigaru]

Love me some anime but I don't see Valve being able to contribute much with it.

[WhiteKnight]

Haha. They don't even make games anymore. They have massive amount of money which they could have helped fund so many games. Instead they flush the money into drain by making hardware junk.

Here you are wanting them to buy those studio and do what?.


Also for your information Crunchyroll is owned by Funimation who is owned by Sony.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

Crunchyroll was sold three years ago to Sony. I doubt it's on the market, but even if it was what does Valve actually bring to the table? I just don't see how they benefit CR or even really an individual studio like Kyoto Animations.

[Mad Scientist]

Well, a bunch of studios are deciding to just make a live channel instead of letting places like CR have it or charge for it. So...

[eram]

sony owns crunchyroll

[Crashed]

denisbespalov659 lähetti viestin:

Imagine Valve buying major anime studios like Crunchyroll or Kyoto animations

Valve got out of the non-game video market years ago.

[cinedine]

WhiteKnight lähetti viestin:

Also for your information Crunchyroll is owned by Funimation who is owned by Sony.

So? Valve should step up their game and buy Sony then.
That would also solve the repeated request of them making a console.

[Tito Shivan]

cinedine lähetti viestin:

So? Valve should step up their game and buy Sony then.

But... MONOPOLY!

cSg|mc-Hotsauce lähetti viestin:

They partnered with Crunchyroll in the past to bring anime to Steam but that venture failed to make any profit.

Which showed Steam's userbase interest for anime in the platform was at best a niche one.

They'd be better licensing their IPs to some studio to have shows made of. Like what LoL did with Arcane or what GW is doing with Amazon and WH40.000

[Seraphita]

Tito Shivan lähetti viestin:

Which showed Steam's userbase interest for anime in the platform was at best a niche one.

I have a feeling it's the idea of PAYING for anime that's the issue. Look, all I'm saying is that we know how most people watch anime online. I liked to see it on steam myself but lot of it was too expensive for my tastes and for so little. Plus, digital only. I like real copies.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Seraphita lähetti viestin:

Tito Shivan lähetti viestin:

Which showed Steam's userbase interest for anime in the platform was at best a niche one.

I have a feeling it's the idea of PAYING for anime that's the issue. Look, all I'm saying is that we know how most people watch anime online. I liked to see it on steam myself but lot of it was too expensive for my tastes and for so little. Plus, digital only. I like real copies.

It wasn't free for Valve to license them.

Before they scrapped non-game videos, they were working on a video mobile app to stream and download for offline viewing.

[Seraphita]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce lähetti viestin:

It wasn't free for Valve to license them.

Before they scrapped non-game videos, they were working on a video mobile app to stream and download for offline viewing.

It's not what I meant. I wasn't complaining about having to pay for anime. I mean, I pay for my physical copies (The few I have anyway) but I was mostly implying the joke that people watch anime online for free so maybe the steam side selling them wasn't interesting.