Microsoft Looking to Make Bethesda Size Acquisition

[Bold One]

I'm against monopolies, but shouldn't Sony respond here?

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MS is several magnitudes larger than Sony. Can actually buy Sony.

Sony can't really respond. Not in any measurable or equal way.

 

[BGA]

I could see Microsoft buying EA. The sports games will stay multiple platform, but it will give customers stronger incentive to subscribe to Gamepass if Fifa and Madden are available to play day one. EA and Microsoft already have a deal with each other's subscription service as well.

 

[Izanagi89]

I see we already have a massive thread rehashing the same talking points as every single other acquisition thread. Take a shot for every time you see the words SEGA or EA

 

[Shirkelton]

I'm against monopolies, but shouldn't Sony respond here?

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Jim Ryan hasn't thread all thirty pages of rumors yet, give him a bit.

 

[gremlinz1982]

Well yes. It would definitely get a very different reaction, as the situation wouldn't really change for anyone. If MS would've basically funded some studio for years for exclusivity and then bought it, wouldn't that feel way more natural and expected even?

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Bizzare, BioWare, Double Helix, DICE, Angel Studios.
They did that and all of these were still bought out. If you do not make a move for a developer, someone else will.

Buying an established third party publisher or developer will always have a very negative side in how the gaming community reacts to it. It's perfectly understandable and there's no way around it. It might be where this industry is going, but it still isn't a good thing as a whole.

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Neither here nor there. The gaming community reacts according to how moves affect their platform of choice. There are users who stated they never needed to buy Xbox because they have PC, a huge amount that stated that there was nothing that Microsoft could do to convince them to get their console. That is this very community. This is the same community that stated that Microsoft needs to bolster their first party output yet will complain months on end when that is done.

We have a good amount of gamers that do not have a problem with timed exclusives, unless they are getting them. That do not have a problem with consolidation (and we have threads on the same) if their platform of choice is making moves. There is not pleasing this population.

I'd really like to see evidence that Microsoft have learned how to better manage studios and projects before they gobble up even more of the industry.

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Some of us would just like to see better quality games coming out on Game Pass day and date.

 

[CarpetSalesman]

They need to drop hardware business if they plan to keep doing this. Hoarding all those devs just to sell your always-third-place platform is not a good plan. Literally for everyone.

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You don't think that they'll attract more customers with an expanded roster of exclusive games?

 

[Redcrayon]

This is both based on a single tweet (see announcements/guide to era on sourcing) and also previously discussed here:

Brad Sams: MS, Amazon, and Google are looking to make acquistions. EA and Sony (not as much as Google and Amazon) also looking

If Timestamp isn't working he starts talking about it at 12:10. He said he knows 3 acquisition targets from these companies. He thinks we might start hearing about it soon.

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