If anything Ms I'd say Ms problems with Rare was being extreme on both sides. At first they gave Rare too much creative and management freedom, and when that didn't worked they gave any. But that was going from different managements with different goals. Right now I think Ms is in their best position to buy studios or create new partnerships: With game pass they are more dependent on the quality and diversity of their portfolio as a whole than the success of a individual game.
That makes some sense; would have been ideal for them to take a median approach but as you say, there were big shifts in team dynamics of Xbox division going from OG to 360 and again from 360 to XBO.
If you frame it in the context of Game Pass, I think Sega going at least w/ a more strengthened collaborative effort w/ MS would actually work out very well. Something like Game Pass gives a good opportunity for solid games that some people don't feel have enough content to justify a $60 price tag, but are still heads and shoulders above indie games in terms of ambition and tech to go for the typical price cheaper indie games do. So maybe Game Pass would be a good fit for home ports of Sega's arcade games, for example, especially if Sega became a subsidiary of Microsoft.
But like a few others have been saying, they're nowhere near in a position where that's a realistic proposition, as it seems like Sega themselves are doing pretty well and the finance report seems more about some of Sammy's side, which might just be a slight temporary thing, or them being like how Square-Enix were with the Tomb Raider reboot and having unrealistically high expectations for performance. Dunno; someone more versed and following the business side of things there could elaborate.
All I want right now is some more footage on Sega World Drivers Championship because that game is looking gorgeous, and unless there's a home port, I'm never gonna get to play it :(.
SEGA Europe doing all of the heavy lifting? They make my PC happy, at least.
I guess SEGA Forever isn't doing very well, lol, unless this is specifically about the Japanese market.
I don't think anyone would want to buy out these people.
Maybe try reading the OP before posting?
And the buyout talks are unwarranted; people making doom and gloom about anything that even slightly mentions a dip, especially if it's tied to Sega (in this case it's tied to the Sammy side it seems).
