Sony In Final Negotiations to Acquire Crunchyroll

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• Nikkei Asia reported today that Sony has now entered the final part of their negotiations to buy Crunchyroll from AT&T giving them the largest anime streaming library in the West.
• Sony aquired Funimation in 2017, gaining 1 million subscribers, while Crunchyroll has 3 million paying subscribers and a whopping 70 million free subscriber in over 200 countries.
• Sony would now be able to offer 1000+ Crunchyroll anime titles on its other services.
• When negotiations began, AT&T was asking for over $1 billion dollars for Crunchyroll but the amount is more around $100 billion yen, which translates to around $950 million dollars.

[en]Source: [/en][es]Fuente: [/es]Nikkei Asia

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[balloon_speech align="left" text="They're going to have ALL the anime!" image="bee-surprised2"] [balloon_speech align="right" text="I wonder if they'll put it all together in one place or leave it as it is?" image="honey-thinking"]

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