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[Wulfer]

IF Sony goes for Take Two then I agree MS should pursue Ubisoft.

 

[Betty]

IF Sony goes for Take Two then I agree MS should pursue Ubisoft.

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Ubi have no reason to, they are constantly outperforming themselves each time, all their franchises are glowing and they can't seem to do anything wrong.

I thought Capcom or Sega would be picked up by MS at some point but with Capcom resurging that's not likely to happen.

 

[darthpaxton]

IF Sony goes for Take Two then I agree MS should pursue Ubisoft.

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I think a ton of acquisitions make sense for Microsoft. That would be good for no one. People would lose jobs. They have way too many employees in sectors that Microsoft would struggle with and it would generally be a nightmare for a lot of people. Don't do that to Yves or the Ubisoft crew!

I highly doubt they fought off Vivendi only to turn around and be acquired by Microsoft. I would also imagine you'll be hearing a ton about Ubisoft in six days at the Google Games presser.

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[knightmawk]

How do you think this turns out for you

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Well, eventually the answer will be yes, and that will be a good day.

Yep, Bethesda is the one publisher I could potentially see getting purchased, but even that seems like a massive stretch at the moment.

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I believe Bethesda is owned by Zenimax already, so they'd have to either be willing to sell or Microsoft would have to be willing to buy Zenimax outright. See my above post about redundancy.

IF Sony goes for Take Two then I agree MS should pursue Ubisoft.

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Ubisoft has already shown they don't really want to be acquired, and Microsoft isn't in the business of hostile takeovers, otherwise they'd probably own Bioware and Respawn right now.

MS is not going to spend 11 billion on acquiring a company for gaming purposes.

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I mean, they spent 2.5 billion for Minecraft, which was just one game. I don't think Microsoft will acquire a publisher, but it's not because they aren't going to spend money on gaming, it's because it wouldn't be worth it.

 

[Hudsoniscool]

why are people evening giving this take-two stuff a thought. It would be the equivalent of Microsoft's buying EA, activision,Ubisoft, and take-two. So... not happening.

 

[More Butter]

Weren't you asked to stop doing this by an admin?

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I thought it was more of a suggestion... I honestly just can't get E3 off the brain. It's gonna be a good one.

 

[daniel77733]

why are people evening giving this take-two stuff a thought. It would be the equivalent of Microsoft's buying EA, activision,Ubisoft, and take-two. So... not happening.

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Pretty much this.

 

[Mington]

It will be Google/Amazon who snap up a publisher first.

MS being in third

 

[Ushay]

What a time to be alive, Google stepping into the picture.

I get the feeling MS have ramped up their efforts in gaming was Google and Amazon more than anything because of their financial reach.

 

[OneBadMutha]

Buying a publisher doesn't make sense on many fronts for Microsoft. #1, aside from overlap in marketing people, is that Microsoft is taking some different approaches to marketing in general. With Game Pass and Mixer, I get the feeling they'll cut back on traditional marketing.

That money buying EA or Ubi Soft could be used to fund a lot of mega projects. Hire a lot of top end industry talent. Too much of the cost of buying a publisher is paying for storefronts/launchers, publishing positions and IP.

Personally looking forward to seeing if Microsoft can establish their own IP. With Game Pass and now opening up to the PC user base, they'll have more than enough eyes on their products to generate mindshare if the products are good.

 

[Deleted member 3897]

PS Now has made me a lot more positive towards streaming as it works really well, at least on my laptop and my PC (Bloodborne on PC is dope).

However, I see MD keeps talking about streaming on the commute. It's gonna be expensive as hell with 4G.

 

[Deleted member 6235]

Buying publishers doesn't make any sense to any of the big three. Fuck the idea of them buying publishers. The amount of people getting fired would be insane.

 

[cyrribrae]

Buying publishers doesn't make any sense to any of the big three. Fuck the idea of them buying publishers. The amount of people getting fired would be insane.

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I mean sure. But let's be honest. If a publisher is willing to sell, there's a good chance those jobs were already getting chopped.

 

[Deleted member 6235]

I mean sure. But let's be honest. If a publisher is willing to sell, there's a good chance those jobs were already getting chopped.

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I feel that not at the same level, no. Also, my point is that cheering these kind of things are stupid. Take Two is expanding (2K especially and also the new private division stuff), so i can't see that working out if they are bought out.

 

[Firenoh]

I think people have taken the notion of MS having "infinite money" and ran away with it in crazy directions.

What was the last studio MS aqcuired, InXile? The indie studio that just put out a Bard's Tale IV, a game that's probably not selling well on Xbox anyways? Oh, that means MS is totally gearing up to buy Sega and Rockstar, 'cause those companies are totally of the same magnitude, right?

It's just silly. I know MS is looking for talent, and that all they want, and all we want, is the best for Xbox, but people need to chill out. There's no huge brain drain happening in the industry, and MS is not aiming to hold a monopoly on all video games.

 

[knightmawk]

It will be Google/Amazon who snap up a publisher first.

MS being in third

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Google, maybe, Amazon, less likely but maybe. Amazon definitely already has publishing in house, but it's not huge so they could probably merge it with some existing publisher.

But Microsoft will not be buying a publisher, Microsoft is a publisher, maybe they buy a small indie type publisher, run them as a regional part of MSGP or something, but there's wayyyyy too much kit to mix for them to buy and absorb a publisher of any size and renown.

 

[Deleted member 52190]

Why whould Microsoft spend 50B to buy 1 company (EA) when they can just open 100 studios with that money.

Makes no sense.

 

[Sexyphobe]

I think a ton of acquisitions make sense for Microsoft. That would be good for no one. People would lose jobs. They have way too many employees in sectors that Microsoft would struggle with and it would generally be a nightmare for a lot of people. Don't do that to Yves or the Ubisoft crew!

I highly doubt they fought off Vivendi only to turn around and be acquired by Microsoft. I would also imagine you'll be hearing a ton about Ubisoft in six days at the Google Games presser.

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It would be good for me, GTA 6 in Gamepass! The only reason I'd care for any publisher acquisition, 'free' games and potential revivals IP I love.

 

[Deleted member 36493]

Why whould Microsoft spend 50B to buy 1 company (EA) when they can just open 100 studios with that money.

Makes no sense.

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They now have a plethora of established IP that they can make exclusive to Games Pass

 

[Slowsonic]

More unlikely things have happened, but Sony buying a 10 billion dollars game publisher would be quite towards the top of that list.

we talking about wipe out company's almost entire cash reserve to purchase an asset almost generated to decrease in value in short term because of losing access to other platforms, overlapping publish wing.

if they do this, they will lose the capacity for any other major acquisition/investment for the ENTIRE Sony Corp for a considerable amount of time.

 

[Betty]

More unlikely things have happened, but Sony buying a 10 billion dollars game publisher would be quite towards the top of that list.

we talking about wipe out company's almost entire cash reserve to purchase an asset almost generated to decrease in value in short term because of losing access to other platforms, overlapping publish wing.

if they do this, they will lose the capacity for any other major acquisition/investment for the ENTIRE Sony Corp for a considerable amount of time.

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They wouldn't need another acquisition for a very long time, about a generation's length.

 

[Parker Petrov]

Why whould Microsoft spend 50B to buy 1 company (EA) when they can just open 100 studios with that money.

Makes no sense.

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Opening a studio doing from scratch isn't guaranteed to be successful. Plus you forget companies like Microsoft and google have money sitting around. So let's say google or Microsoft buy take two. In order for them to consider it a good investment they only have to net out more profit then the money would generate just sitting there.

Plus while A company like a microsoft may not buy a publisher unprovoked they do to stop a competitor from purchasing a Strategic asset. LinkedIn was purchased to stop salesforce from buying them. They'd rather use the strategic asset themselves then let a competitor have them.

 

[WhoCaresLtsPlay]

why are people evening giving this take-two stuff a thought. It would be the equivalent of Microsoft's buying EA, activision,Ubisoft, and take-two. So... not happening.

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Wich was kinda my point... hahah
I'm kinda glad it degenerated into wild speculation time though.
It's been a while and its when this thread is at its most fun hahah :p

 

[itchi]

It's really hard to justify those huge acquisitions because as soon as Take-Two are acquired they lose a ton of value from no longer being on every platform. Gone are the days of GTA being the largest entertainment release so essentially they would be heavily overpaying. It makes far more sense to build small studios up, not the other way around. I also think EA is a terrible acquisition as half of their valuation comes from FUT microtransactions.

 

[Slowsonic]

They wouldn't need another acquisition for a very long time, about a generation's length.

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We talking about the entire sony, not just SIE, their entire cash reserve is that much.

 

[Kasey]

Why whould Microsoft spend 50B to buy 1 company (EA) when they can just open 100 studios with that money.

Makes no sense.

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IP

 

[InfinityDOK]

IP

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There are much cheaper ways to buy IP than a Publisher, look at THQ Nordic

 

[Kasey]

There are much cheaper ways to buy IP than a Publisher, look at THQ Nordic

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Absolutely. Just saying for MS to be willing to pay that much for a publisher, their main motivation would be the IP, not the talent pool or infrastructure.

 

[Sexyphobe]

It's really hard to justify those huge acquisitions because as soon as Take-Two are acquired they lose a ton of value from no longer being on every platform. Gone are the days of GTA being the largest entertainment release so essentially they would be heavily overpaying. It makes far more sense to build small studios up, not the other way around. I also think EA is a terrible acquisition as half of their valuation comes from FUT microtransactions.

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They probably wouldn't lose too much if bought by Microsoft, due to them wanting Gamepass on everything and anything. Not saying it will or should happen, it'd probably be a Minecraft situation again. Although GTA would be a big system seller as an exclusive, and would bring many into their ecosystem who might have been on Playstation otherwise.

All I know is I want Bully 2.

There are much cheaper ways to buy IP than a Publisher, look at THQ Nordic

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They really should make a new Destroy All Humans, one that's as good as Pandemic's first two.

 

[knightmawk]

IP

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A lot of people think Microsoft is evil already, imagine if they bought Ubisoft and fired ten thousand people just to make Beyond Good and Evil 2 an exclusive.

 

[Handsome James]

It's really hard to justify those huge acquisitions because as soon as Take-Two are acquired they lose a ton of value from no longer being on every platform

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Ironically, this is why it would make more sense for MS to buy them rather than Sony. At the very least those 2k (edit: Take-Two!) games will be on Xbox, PC, GamePass and whatever platform supports xCloud streaming. At best they do what they did with Minecraft and just continue releasing it natively on everything. Sony is much more likely to just lock the games on PS5. And MAYBE streaming.

That being said, I definitely don't think either of these companies are buying a major 3rd party publisher nor do I want them to.

 

[Deleted member 43077]

the new Xbox Game Studios logo in Sea of Thieves is sooooo nice.


They are doing custom ones per game it seems. Shit is gonna look sooo clean

 

[Sexyphobe]

On one hand I'd love to see Microsoft reboot a bunch of Ubisoft or EA IP, and get them on Gamepass.

On the other hand there's plenty of IP Microsoft already owns/may own with future studio acquisitions that I wish they'd focus on.

On the other, OTHER hand I want Obsidian to make a Futurama game. They already have John Dimaggio on speedcall with Gears/Marcus Fenix, so that's one voice actor down. Or maybe a Futurama easter egg in Gears of War 5?

 

[smikey]

A lot of people think Microsoft is evil already, imagine if they bought Ubisoft and fired ten thousand people just to make Beyond Good and Evil 2 an exclusive.

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But, Beyond Good and Evil 2 would get made and released, right?

 

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Redmond, Washington, United States

The Microsoft Casual Games Studio is focused on delivering the best casual games for Windows platforms, mobile, and beyond.
We are looking for an experienced Producer to join us as we support our Microsoft Casual Games on Windows, Web, iOS, and Android platforms.

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https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/590577/Senior-PM-Manager

Principal Program Manager Lead - Team Xbox
Redmond, Washington, United States

Team Xbox is at the forefront of delivering the industry's best platform and experiences for both gamers and game developers. We work closely with industry leaders across hardware, software, services and our 1st and 3rd party game development partners to ensure Microsoft's platforms are designed and optimized to meet the needs of our most passionate fans and players, whether they choose to play on the Xbox console, their Windows PC or laptop, or mobile devices.

The Gaming Experiences and Platform (GXP) team is looking for an experienced Principal PM to lead our Console Experiences PM team. Our mission is to deliver an intuitive, accessible and engaging experience for all gamers on the Xbox console. As the Lead PM for the Experiences team, you will lead a strong and diverse team of PMs responsible for defining and delivering the core user experience on the Xbox One console, companion experiences, and future gaming devices from Microsoft. You will be directly responsible for the day to day execution and leadership of the Experiences PM team, inspiring and unlocking the creativity of our development and design teams, and collaborating closely with key partner teams including Game Pass, Xbox Live, and Mixer to ensure we are delivering a world class experience to all Xbox gamers across the world. Ideal candidates will have a strong track record of customer obsession and insights, delivering great user experiences, strong cross group collaboration across a diverse set of stakeholders and exceptional people management. If you are passionate about being at the forefront of the gaming industry and user experience, this is the role for you.

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https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/583702/Principal-Program-Manager-Lead

Principal Program Manager - Playfab
Redmond, Washington, United States

Do you love games? Are you passionate about bringing best-in-class gaming solutions to game studios around the world? If so, now is your opportunity to join PlayFab!

PlayFab is a back-end platform for building, launching, and growing cloud-connected games. PlayFab can be used by game developers across all platforms, including console, PC, and mobile; and it features game services, real-time analytics for better understanding game players, and LiveOps to host live events, run experiments, and reward game players. PlayFab aims to help game developers of all sizes with customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and ultimately monetization.

PlayFab has achieved significant traction with more than 120 million MAU. We're looking for great people to help build our reach to more than 2 billion gamers worldwide!

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https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/593828/Principal-Program-Manager

Senior Program Manager - Xbox ATG
Redmond, Washington, United States

Do you have a passion for graphics technologies? Would you like to play a key role in driving the development, integration and light up of cutting-edge graphics and system features on the latest gaming platforms and services?

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG), part of the Xbox org, is seeking a passionate Technical Program Manager with expertise in graphics, GPU architectures, machine learning, and middleware engines (Unity/Unreal) to join our team.

ATG is at the heart of Microsoft's efforts to make games on our platforms the best they can be. We act as the voice of the game development community, working closely with our platform, publishing, and business teams across Microsoft to ensure we are providing the best platform for game developers across all disciplines.

You'll work with game development partners to achieve success on our platform and services as well as working as part of a collaborative developer ecosystem team focused on the success of our customers. You will partner with the Technical Director, supporting the Graphics and Systems engineering team and associated projects, as well as working closely with the Program Management Leadership to ensure alignment takes place within the developer ecosystem.

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https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/576410/Senior-Program-Manager

 

[Deleted member 43077]

man next week is gonna be so good. Sea of Thieves stream and then Sekiro the night after :D

 

[RedSparrows]

I am looking for a new job.
*checks CV*
Hmmmm.
Clearly destined to be a designer on Halo.
Nobody look at my CV ssshhh

 

[12Danny123]

the new Xbox Game Studios logo in Sea of Thieves is sooooo nice.


They are doing custom ones per game it seems. Shit is gonna look sooo clean

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wait do you have a video or picture?

 

[Windu]

wait do you have a video or picture?

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only in beta. nda.

 

[Deleted member 43077]

wait do you have a video or picture?

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I wanna share it but id rather not. You will probably see it on the 20th.

 

[Firenoh]

Are all theses senior positions brand new? Did these jobs really not exist before, or are people shuffling through the company?

 

[Ushay]

the new Xbox Game Studios logo in Sea of Thieves is sooooo nice.


They are doing custom ones per game it seems. Shit is gonna look sooo clean

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Can anyone make a gif of this, I haven't seen it yet. So the new logo will be specific to the game, that sounds very cool.

25 more jobs today ( 03/13/19 )

Senior Software Development Engineer - 343 Industries
Redmond, Washington, United States

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Outsource Producer - 343 Industries
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/548955/Outsource-Producer

Senior Program Manager - 343 Industries
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/560546/Senior-Program-Manager

Software Engineer II - Turn 10 Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/563974/Software-Engineer-II-Turn-10-Studios

Senior Software Design Engineering Lead - Turn 10 Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en...tware-Design-Engineering-Lead-Turn-10-Studios

Senior Producer - Turn 10 Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/585461/Senior-Producer-Turn-10-Studios

Software Engineer - Mojang - Minecraft
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/544069/Software-Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Mojang - Minecraft
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/488129/Senior-Software-Engineer

Principal Program Manager - Mojang - Minecraft
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/544819/Principal-Program-Manager

Senior Program Manager - Mojang - Minecraft
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/583431/Senior-Program-Manager

Software Engineer - Mojang - Minecraft
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/571127/Software-Engineer

Principal Program Manager - Xbox First Party Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/578644/Principal-Program-Manager

Principal Security Program Manager - Xbox First Party Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States
Do you love Games? Are you passionate about the future of the industry? Are you a seasoned security professional that wants to help shape how Xbox First Party Studios addresses security concerns? If so, we are seeking a highly motivated and qualified Principal Program Manager to help drive strategic security initiatives for Xbox First Party Studios.

We are seeking an execution-oriented program manager who thrives on a challenge. Desirable candidates will have strong technical and collaboration skills as well as experience leading large scale security projects. This person will work across organizational boundaries in support of the broader Xbox First Party Studios organization.

As the focal point for security for Xbox First Party Studios you will be responsible for interpreting, negotiating, and implementing security policy/standards/requirements across all our studios as well as the broader MS Security community to improve our overall security posture. You will engage with platform and security partners to both learn and drive deep awareness on issues impacting Xbox First Party Studios business. An ideal candidate would bring experience, perspective, and expertise from other game studios or complementary industries.

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That's a lot of growth. Holy shit.

 

[knightmawk]

Are all theses senior positions brand new? Did these jobs really not exist before, or are people shuffling through the company?

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It's probably a combination of both. And it should be noted that these reqs won't necessarily be filled by outside hires. Lots of companies will put a req out while also looking within the company for someone to fill it, and if they find an internal hire before they hire someone else they'll close it. That's happened to me at Microsoft in the past where they have a job, I'm a couple interviews deep, and in the middle of the process they fill the role internally and close it.

 

[Windu]

It's probably a combination of both. And it should be noted that these reqs won't necessarily be filled by outside hires. Lots of companies will put a req out while also looking within the company for someone to fill it, and if they find an internal hire before they hire someone else they'll close it. That's happened to me at Microsoft in the past where they have a job, I'm a couple interviews deep, and in the middle of the process they fill the role internally and close it.

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I think the law requires job postings to be up a certain amount of time even if they have already filled it with an internal candidate. so yeah a lot of these have already been filled before they even post them.

 

[Yearsoflurking]

It's probably a combination of both. And it should be noted that these reqs won't necessarily be filled by outside hires. Lots of companies will put a req out while also looking within the company for someone to fill it, and if they find an internal hire before they hire someone else they'll close it. That's happened to me at Microsoft in the past where they have a job, I'm a couple interviews deep, and in the middle of the process they fill the role internally and close it.

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Yeah that's normal sometimes reqs already be filled

 

[Yearsoflurking]

I think the law requires job postings to be up a certain amount of time even if they have already filled it with an internal candidate. so yeah a lot of these have already been filled before they even post them.

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3 days is the rule iirc hr had me apply to a position that wasn't up recently

 

[Deleted member 2254]

Microsoft out there growing like

 

[Deleted member 43077]

Microsoft out there growing like

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I never expected to ever see that game in here. Amazing what life can throw at ya

 

[cyrribrae]

We don't know, but if those minecraft positions are new, would that point to expansion of the core game, work on dungeons, or maybe something else entirely?

 

[Redesigned83]

Jade going to Google hurts me a little, I thought for sure if she was going to leave a studio she basically just started it had to be for a cozy new position at MS, never thought Google was in play.

I hope just the rumor of Sony going after Take-Two reinvigorates MS thirst for high quality studios and perhaps pushes them to close some deals that they may have been procrastinating on. I think it's just become apparent Google plans to swing for the fences, even if it's their one and only at bat.

I think it would be a nice little jab if they show up at E3 and take Sony's normal time slot.