I'm also 100% sure Obsidian will be expanding a lot with this acquisition. I expect Sawyer to stay now and Microsoft may try to get talent from comparable devs - like BioWare.
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Kotaku: Microsoft finalizing deal to acquire Obsidian Entertainment
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I'm also 100% sure Obsidian will be expanding a lot with this acquisition. I expect Sawyer to stay now and Microsoft may try to get talent from comparable devs - like BioWare.
Klobrille said that if this rumor came true, it would validate other things he's seen. What are those other thing Klobrille?
thats why you get a pc and you can play almost all japanese games
I would die if Too Human came back but I just don't see it happening. No idea who even owns the IP now.
With Deadfire, the absolute silence of Obsidian on the matter should be proof enough. They haven't talked about sales, the best you can do is rely on SteamSpy numbers which places it around 100-200k units sold.
https://steamspy.com/app/560130
This coming off of the lackluster sales of another critically-acclaimed CPRG Tyranny, a game they at least admitted did not sell as they had hoped.
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/ob...ty-2-still-forthcoming-in-light-of-new-report
On the other hand, Divinity 2 did well for Larian. But, not exaclty major numbers. They announced they had sold one million units world-wide in late November (two-months after release). And, followed that up with an announcement later that Divinity had generated a total of $85M "in revenue" last year.
https://wccftech.com/divinity-original-sin-2-one-million-copies/
https://wccftech.com/divinity-original-sin-2-85m-revenue-2017/
So yes, not exactly a major selling genre.
From Studios is owned by Kadokawa Games and Platinum Games is a private company unlikely to be willing to go under Microsoft.
That's my point. 5 billion for Take Two might be low balling it.
What would actually be the value in buying Mistwalker? The only IP they own is Terra Battle as far as I'm aware, and they're not actually a development studio. They only have 15 employees, and I doubt Sakaguchi would stick around long after selling.
I think one of my favorite things about industry developments like this (more generally) is how it forces people to rewrite their headcanon about how companies operate, or who supposedly hates who. Because news like this is almost universally good for independent studios, but you see the real struggle to accept it as that. At the very least, you see a spirited attempt to rationalize how the grapes are actually very sour.
You want to shell out $700 or $800 to build me a new PC? I don't have money for consoles, I definitely don't have enough money to build a good PC.
I do all my computing on a MacBook now because Dead Rising 3 killed my PC.
They also have Bayo 3 (funded by Ninty), Granblue Fantasy (funded by CyGames) and Babylons Fall (Square) in dev. Not sure what's gonna happen to them if MS buys them.
Well, at least we got three RTWP games from them. It was nice while it lasted, but sadly these kind of games just aren't very profitable anymore. I'm expecting inXile to be the next to have problems after Wasteland 3 is released and Brian Fargo leaves the industry. At least we still have Larian Studios (I hope).
It's Sakaguchi's studio, if Microsoft was to buy it they'd make sure he would actually stay in.
I'd imagine they would beef up the studios with hirings before tackling a mid-size JRPG project.
If it's IO just go ahead and tell me. I'd rather take the pain now instead of waiting a month.
It would make sense. It fits the "build studios around industry veterans" that was one of Microsoft's goals for expanding first party studios. Sakaguchi and Itagaki would be two veterans that Microsoft should look into.
They always valued their independence so it seems unlikely.
Poor Obsidian.
I don't think you understand what that phrase means.
I don't think you understand what that phrase means.
Why would that be bad? MS would buy them because of Hitman which would most likely lead to a ton more Hitman with a higher budget.
I doubt they would even consider selling. There's very recent bad blood there, and Platinum are able to get a lot of work as is.
None of those games, apart for the recent RPG Assassins Creed titles is anything like Horizon.
If Horizon is not an RPG, neither if The Witcher 3.
If your definition of RPG doesn't include one of the biggest and best RPGs of recent times, then maybe your definition is wrong?
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