BreathOfTheWife
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I really love the way Microsoft style of acquisition. The more the merrier.
Square Enix and Ubisoft next.
Square Enix and Ubisoft next.
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Microsoft is Looking to Make another Bethesda Size Acquisition
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BreathOfTheWife
Member
Microsoft at least will release all of their games simultaneously on PC(The most important thing ever)
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Take Two market cap $23 billion.
Two $15 billion profit quarters = $30 billion.
Doable.
Two $15 billion profit quarters = $30 billion.
Doable.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
what about paid exclusives that Sony does? street fighter? stuff like that
Negotiator101
Member
Well who is in that sort of ballpark price wise?
balls of snow
Member
Rather this happened than Amazon or Google where south east asia are given the middle finger . Face it Sony cant play this game. Go for the devil you know.
Bridges
Member
Were you mad when Sony bought Insomniac?
Negotiator101
Member
It's strange people still think this is about selling more consoles than Sony, it isn't!
This is about content for Gpass, it's all future proofing as the industry transitions from the old buy a console and 5 or 6 games a year.
LisaMariaMartin
Banned
lol ms is like
FatKingBallman
Banned
One game compared to whole publisher. Yeah, right!
the First is 70 euro for each game the second is a reasonable 15 euro monthly for 282+ games and all the future games from acquisitions
and btw stop acting stupid the consequence of having games delayed for years is that people buy the platform where the games come out first or have some sort of enhancement in the long run this implies a difference in userbase and in the end you will have the third party that snub the console with less user. this is what happened
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DavidGzz
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If Sony could they would so either way. "Why buy an Xbox when all they have is Forza, Halo, and Gears?" MS is changing that, big time, and now people are kicking and screaming. Laugh at Xbox and now that Phil is getting serious people lose their minds. It may suck for people who want to be PS only but it's business.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
Final fantasy? Ridge racer? Tekken?
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FatKingBallman
Banned
Xbox is the main pusher for Gamepass. More Xbox consoles sold, more Gamepass subs. Gamepass launched on Android. What Android did for Gamepass. Pretty much nothing
FatKingBallman
Banned
You can play them on your Xbox. Almost all of FFs ( sonner or later FF XVI) Ridge Racer Unbound and who knows how many Tekkens. Yeah, right
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Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Pathetic. Use your billions to build your own studios you lazy fucks.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Exactly. Apparently this is too hard for some people to understand. Instead of being excited about the games they get to play, they are more interested in seeing MS locking content from PlayStation.
MS was already going to get all the Bethesda games anyway on Xbox -- unless Sony funded a Bethesda game which was extremely unlikely. Now, nothing has changed for MS, but Xbox fans are rejoicing after MS acquired Bethesda. They will still get the same games. The only difference is that PS owners won't get those games, and that's what makes Xbox fanboys happy. It's pathetic.
Instead, MS should have focused on creating new studios, new jobs, and new games for Xbox, and growing the gaming industry. That'd have been in addition to Bethesda titles that were going to be released on Xbox anyway. And that'd mean Xbox users would have gotten a lot more games.
Team Andromeda
Member
Is it Wednesday yet?
Team Andromeda
Member
Only SEGA and Nintendo did that, those days are gone
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
How's it pathetic? i imagine there's a helluva lot goes into starting up a game studio from scratch then waiting 4-5years to see if you're gonna get a ROI, smart move is to buy an established player and its IP's. Xbox snaggin Bethesda really done my head in as a Sony fan, that means my favourite series is now locked behind Gamepass and will require me to purchase another console just to play it, something i simply wont do, i don't game enough to get value from an additional console so now i gotta sit out a next gen Elder Scrolls & Starfield.. cunts lol, now they're on the prowl again.. this has me worried i may lose another franchise ffs but I'm not going to diss MS for simply beefing up their catalogue
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CityHunter1981
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This shows again how much trust they have in their own studios, close to zero. And unfortunately some of the studios they bought were not the same they have been before. For example Rare, which is only a shadow of itself.
I am still surprised why they still manufacture consoles. They make their money through game pass and don't care of players play on XBOX or PC. So why not just went back to be a pure software company and sell the game pass.
I am still surprised why they still manufacture consoles. They make their money through game pass and don't care of players play on XBOX or PC. So why not just went back to be a pure software company and sell the game pass.
onesvenus
Member
That's not what makes Xbox fanboys happy.
Having Bethesda games exclusive to the platform means more people buying that platform (either Gamepass or Xbox). That makes the platform more attractive to other publishers, making their games coming to that platform a no-brainer. More games coming to the platform IS what makes Xbox fanboys happy.
I don't care if PS gets the same games or not, what I don't want is another publisher not porting their game to my platform of choice.
New Yorks Finest
Banned
Now the biggest issue, problem that Xbox will have games and have tons of studios?! But before they were sayi..wait whaa??! The retardation of fanboysism salt levels you won't see anywhere else..you can't make this shit up, you catch it first hand on gaf folks.
Heavily trembling, shaking in your open toe sandals, crocs or whatever have you its not a pretty picture..we get that, but its Reality and business..if y'all need a
we might work something out 
it takes 15 years to grow studios capable of supporting gamepass. do not be ridiculous
Negotiator101
Member
Another joke post, keep them coming giving me a right laugh this morning lol
FatKingBallman
Banned
So, MS was damn stupid in last 15 years.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
You can now but back in the day Sony paid so they couldn’t be on any other console. Just befor the start of this gen there was a post about news of Sony trying to money hat a load of games for exclusivity to PlayStation and it was applauded by all Sony fans here. Now Microsoft doing their thing they get lambasted as usual
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Naughty Dog
Guerilla
Sucker Punch
Media Molecule
Insomniac
Zipper (dead)
Evolution (dead)
Psygnosis (Sony Liverpool) (dead)
All bought out studios. Aside from Gran Turismo, God of War and their annual baseball game, every one of their other heavy hitters came from third party devs they opened the wallet for.
Sony even paid 100s of million of dollars to buy Gaikai and On Live's patents, which collectively helped them do game streaming.
Hitchyhero
Banned
I really hope it's WB games.
Imagine getting all the lego games plus arkham games, middle earth, Harry Potter, plus any future games they do.
Imagine getting all the lego games plus arkham games, middle earth, Harry Potter, plus any future games they do.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Its going to be done next Wednesday and it will be SEGA trust me.
FatKingBallman
Banned
Some games, not every IP from one developer
Timed exclusives. TIMED. That huge difference compared to buying a publisher. If you don't understand that difference, you have a problem. You, Xbox community applauding THAT.
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DavidGzz
Member
You do what you can afford. Sony can't throw billions around like MS. You're pardoning one practice because it takes more money, timed or not, it sucks for one side. Plus, Streets of Beige just posted how Sony has done the same thing, just because they can't afford something like Bethesda doesn't make them any better.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yeah, there's always these bullshit false equivalencies when this happens. When MS bought Zenimax I even read a non-zero number of people saying that it was equivalent to the Spider-Man in Avengers exclusive character.
I had no problem with MS buying smaller companies who were obviously in poor financial shape, like Ninja Theory, Obsidian or inXile. But buying mega-publishers is a fucking awful precedent and will A) make things worse for a large part of the industry, and B) possibly encourage other publishers to do the same, which means we end up with accelerated industry consolidation.
drganon
Member
Monopolies are very pro consumer.
DavidGzz
Member
Something I just thought of, what if they are doing it to make sure Amazon and Google don't? I know who I'd want to win that bidding war. A streaming only service or a console/pc/mobile service? Xbox over Stadia and Luna all the way.
Imagine if this was a MS/Sony merger. That would be sick and Amazon and Google can get fucked at that point.
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Sony is playing the same game as Microsoft except they have to stay within their budget.
After the Xbox 360 era Microsoft said they’d stop paying for timed exclusives and timed DLC unless they published the game, Sony took the opportunity to double down and that’s how we got the whole XB1 era. This Gen MS has taken the platinum card off the table and started swiping within their budget (which Sony unfortunately can’t compete with) and people are upset about that?
I’m going to also assume some of you guys and gals are too young to remember Sony from the early days and even recent past. They have bough studios also to expand their IP and portfolio, again within their budget.
If Sony could afford to buy bigger publishers and lock down more expensive IPs for themselves, you think they wouldn’t?
After the Xbox 360 era Microsoft said they’d stop paying for timed exclusives and timed DLC unless they published the game, Sony took the opportunity to double down and that’s how we got the whole XB1 era. This Gen MS has taken the platinum card off the table and started swiping within their budget (which Sony unfortunately can’t compete with) and people are upset about that?
I’m going to also assume some of you guys and gals are too young to remember Sony from the early days and even recent past. They have bough studios also to expand their IP and portfolio, again within their budget.
If Sony could afford to buy bigger publishers and lock down more expensive IPs for themselves, you think they wouldn’t?
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Calverz
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Bye bye.So basically a Twitter rando, just on another form of social media.
Bad site writes bad rumormongering article because MATT said so, and people start chugging that koolaid. This kind of stuff is getting hilarious.
I'm outta here, have fun
LisaMariaMartin
Banned
No one is going to buy a manga publisher to own fromsoft
phil_t98
#SonyToo
Yeah Sony buy studios to, they bought insomniac
FatKingBallman
Banned
Insomniac already developed games exclusively for Sony for a veeery long time before acquisition . Same crap as Playground Games for Xbox. It's not a big deal. One dev studio is not the same as publisher
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Triggerhappytel
Member
Yeah, MS would be preferable to Google or Amazon but neither choice is great. That's like electing to step on a plug over a drawing pin.
A merger between Playstation and Xbox would actually be awesome but I guess it would never happen. Combining the two would easily create the biggest and possibly best publisher the industry has ever seen, and each could bolster the other's weaknesses.
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