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Brad Sams: Microsoft was looking into buying Platinum Games last year, "deal fell apart or they decided to go another direction"
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Considering how they were looking into getting any funding last year before tencent investment, I wouldn't be so sure about that.
When you are contracted, you only get an X percentage of sales and the vast majority of the revenue goes to the publisher.
PG had over 200 devs and they were dropped by MS, CyGames and 2-3 mobile games were halted.
Tencent threw some money at Platinum not long ago that was surprisingly without a substantial catch. There's a whole story behind the scenes. I'd read the hell out of an extended article that uncovered it.
The thought of their pc versions being stuck on that god awful Xbox app / Windows store makes me shudder.
Do you live in a cave? MS is publishing all games on Steam now.
I still wouldn't want MS to buy Platinum tho lol
This is a bad direction for the industry. MS acquisitions forced Sony to respond and now insomniac is off the table for multi-platform development. If MS is still shopping around, Sony will be too. Hopefully the acquisition race stops. Stadia is fizzling out, so hopefully the console makers are less worried.
I decided to look up what games Platinum Games has developed, and it seems that I haven't played a game of theirs. Had this deal come to fruition, I wouldn't have felt like I'd be missing out on anything, but I know lots of people would've hated it ahaha
Nintendo would be a better move, but Platinum should stay independent so everyone gets the goods.
True, but bills gotta be paid, teams need funds to grow, software licensing is not a joke etc etc. Trying live off the funding from game-to-game is like a person living pay cheque to pay cheque - only you have vastly more dependents who's future you are responsible for...
At some point you have to think about swallowing your pride and doing what's best for the stability/growth of your family.
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Nah, I think they were always looking towards a deal to maintain independence rather than sell themselves. If they got some cheddar from MS in exchange for a couple of exclusives, they'd probably bite (like the sega deal)
And yet they still seemed to be on decent terms if they went so far to have this sort of discussion
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Most of their sold copies are outside of Japan. It would be far from disastrous (especially when you factor in millions of gamepass subs).
Maintaining independence and IP ownership is of course what they want, but Brad wouldn't have said thedeal fell apart or MS decided to change their opinion if Platinum didn't at least consider it. Tencent is clearly the better solution for them, but that probably wasn't there when MS was negotiating them.
Thank goodness. They're not as bad as EA when it comes to studio closures at least. I'm really glad that deal fell through.
Think I'd rather they be owned by MS vs this.
More people are buying Japanese games outside of Japan than Japan is for a lot of games. That's why it makes perfect sense for Xbox to invest in Japanese devs, people in NA and EU are buying them.
More people are buying Japanese games outside of Japan than Japan is for a lot of games. That's why it makes perfect sense for Xbox to invest in Japanese devs, people in NA and EU are buying them.
Not everything is 1:1 ratio on PC for Xbox. Sea of thieves, Forza, state of decay ect. Are not on steam.
I can't imagine Nintendo would let such a thing happen. I imagine they'd attempt to outbid since Platinum has been such an important third party to them over the last decade.
Shame it didn't happened, they could really use the budget.
And being a 1st party stuff like Scalebound needing more time/money wouldn't be as much as a problem as when you are contracted
And being a 1st party stuff like Scalebound needing more time/money wouldn't be as much as a problem as when you are contracted