After they're done with ABK, I still think they're going after Sega. I can already see this image popping up in a random tuesday
I love that this image has, of all things, Valkyria Chronicles front and centre and Sonic is nowhere to be seen.
[The Verge] Microsoft considered acquiring Bungie and Sega (and more) to bolster Xbox Game Pass, internal emails show
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I love that this image has, of all things, Valkyria Chronicles front and centre and Sonic is nowhere to be seen.
Sony and Nintendo could definitely afford companies in the Bethesda price range but ABK is definitely a beast that only Microsoft really has the money for. The sheer difference in scale between that acquisition and any other deal in the video game industry is simply insane.
Idk, maybe it's just me, but one of the top 3 richest companies in the world purchasing one of the bigger western publishers in Bethesda, attempting to purchase the biggest 3rd party publisher in Activision, while also putting out feelers for other big publishers/developers like Sega or Bungie is a bad thing!
How anybody can see how streaming has completely fucked up the film/television industry almost irreparably and think copying that model for video games can in anyway be a good thing is beyond me but we're gonna find out!
I hope Microsoft isn't able to acquire any more PC-focused developers. I do not want the Xbox app getting more prominence by way of Microsoft just buying more developers to put games on it.
I don't want the PC gaming landscape to turn into console-war style exclusivity and service nonsense, I want to see what comes when someone other than Valve actually tries to make something that is worth using.
I don't want the PC gaming landscape to turn into console-war style exclusivity and service nonsense, I want to see what comes when someone other than Valve actually tries to make something that is worth using.
I seriously doubt MS of all companies would bulk at the price considering their acquisition history. Bungie for 2.4 billion is not that big of a premium.
Nothing says in there they're no longer considering it. The FTC and the CMA blocking the AB deal probably put a big hold on their plans until that deal passes.
BGS games sell more than all of sega games do in a year and they made that ecxlusive. If they acquire Sega there's a 99% change that shit will be exclusive.
Just peeking in the acquisition mega thread, i don't think everyone views it that way.
Even in this short thread there a few posters expressing excitement
We clearly haven't been reading the same thread
Xbox and Sony needs to gtfo with their acquisitions
Sega being locked to a console that's not their own would be a travesty, 100%
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Honestly speaking, if it meant revising a lot of SEGA's IPs with Microsoft's big well of funding, I would be down for the purchase.
I mean, what are we getting out of SAMMY? Pachinko and more pachinko.
I mean, what are we getting out of SAMMY? Pachinko and more pachinko.
Didn't mean to imply it's happening right now in this thread, but Twitter elsewhere on the site, etc. There is literally a XBOX x SEGA "Welcome to the family" style banner posted in the thread (not saying the person who posted here made it, I've scene it and other like it before) that someone made because they wanted it to happen so much.
This is depressing as fuck, my favorite hobby is so done lol
Yes please. The last thing we need is more great publishers being acquired.
Nice timing, proving right those posts in the ABK acquisition thread that instead of buying ABK MS couldve just made every third party game exclusive.
Hopefully people learn what the word monopolize means one day as well
So that's the Booty e-mail from the "gamers lawsuit." Interesting.
Same. Really glad it hasn't happened and hope it never happens, I'm mentally prepared if it does
Took me back to the OG Xbox days when there were a bunch of Sega Xbox games that I bought. I loved some of them, I hated some of them.
Gun Valkyrie, the 2-in-1 combo packs, JSRF, Otogi, Shenmue II...it was a mixed bag for sure.
Gun Valkyrie, the 2-in-1 combo packs, JSRF, Otogi, Shenmue II...it was a mixed bag for sure.
Wouldn't Activision going through make these smaller publishers a lot easier for them to acquire?
PC exists where everyone but Nintendo is putting their games, is Nintendo killing the industry? All 3 companies are already putting out exclusive games and has for literally the ENTIRE history of the industry. Unlike things like like Internet Service Providers or phone companies (which are MUCH more essential than video games), the pathway for indie games will never die and new studios will always continue to pop-up. Publishers have died before and new ones have taken their place (THQ -> Embracer). The industry is constantly changing shape and form and will forever.
Does that really make it any better?
It kinda shows their long term plans, goals.
To all of those people who thought this wasn't about putting Sony out of business…
…there you go.
…there you go.
The only publishers Ms would likely have a problem acquiring are
EA Sports (madden and fifa)
Take 2 (nba2k and gta)
They're the only two with annual games that sell in the ballpark of CoD to be remotely considered essential.
Microsoft, as a company, isn't about competition. Never has been. Their past actions are what make their current actions shady.
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