#5834337

jbscotchman

2020-09-24 09:02

Microsoft becoming the new EA?

#5834338

ACEB

2020-09-24 09:05

jbscotchman:

Microsoft becoming the new EA?

EA don't need exclusive IP's to sell a console though do they lol. It only makes sense for Microsoft to buy whats popular as thats the one area they lacked last generation compared to PS and buying all these game devs and IP's helps them alot. Microsoft is far worse for the DRM and xbox/windows store crap though

#5834342

Hawaii_Boy_808

2020-09-24 09:17

Currently waiting for the Anti-Trust law suit to follow.

#5834360

Backstabak

2020-09-24 10:04

The big issue I see is that MS will push their gamepass and will eventually opt out of selling games directly. On the other hand they at least cater to the PC audience and not just consoles. By that I mean that they release titles on both PC and consoles and at the same time at that, because their UWP platform is pretty terrible otherwise.

#5834373

barbacot

2020-09-24 10:20

Grow in what??? Let's hope that not in a big headache for everybody... In a way it makes sense...a game producer famous for buggy games bought by a company famous for buggy software.

#5834398

Drazen

2020-09-24 11:47

Nadella again! He burnt 10 billion on Nokia and destroyed it. Now history repeats! And as with all CEO, like locust, will switch company...

#5834406

Ghosty

2020-09-24 11:59

There isn't very many AAA studios left to buy. EA would cost too much even for Microsoft.

#5834424

D1stRU3T0R

2020-09-24 12:44

If Microsoft bought Bethesda, now Doom will use DX12 instead of vulkan and they will ditch id software?

#5834425

D1stRU3T0R

2020-09-24 12:45

Ghosty:

There isn't very many AAA studios left to buy. EA would cost too much even for Microsoft.

hell nah.They will just feel the purchase, like you feel buying a car.

#5834426

mbk1969

2020-09-24 12:45

Valve?

#5834429

Ghosty

2020-09-24 12:51

mbk1969:

Valve?

1 trillion?

#5834432

Ghosty

2020-09-24 13:02

Sega is even worth buying, as all they make are mobile games nowadays.

#5834440

The Laughing Ma

2020-09-24 13:25

mbk1969:

Valve?

They want game making studios, Valve barely qualifies any more

Hilbert Hagedoorn:

Microsoft CEO: company isn't finished buying game studios

Why does that sound like a threat?

#5834442

Ghosty

2020-09-24 13:27

The Laughing Ma:

They want game making studios, Valve barely qualifies any more Why does that sound like a threat?

No Japanese company will sell to Microsoft, so that leaves very little in regard to big titles that would be a success on the Xbox/PC.

#5834454

Dean_Demon

2020-09-24 13:50

At the end of the day it's just asset stripping, EA have been doing it for years so why make your own product when you can just buy up the competition.

#5834463

PrMinisterGR

2020-09-24 14:12

Hawaii_Boy_808:

Currently waiting for the Anti-Trust law suit to follow.

Anti-trust laws work on monopolies. Like Valve.

D1stRU3T0R:

If Microsoft bought Bethesda, now Doom will use DX12 instead of vulkan and they will ditch id software?

Why would they "send away" the most talented engineers they just got? They don't give a crap about Vulkan vs DX12, the only thing they want is their store everywhere, and after that Windows (maybe).

#5834471

GSDragoon

2020-09-24 14:56

Hawaii_Boy_808:

Currently waiting for the Anti-Trust law suit to follow.

Isn't Sony and Nintendo Japan based? US doesn't care about screwing non-US comoanies.

#5834475

H83

2020-09-24 14:59

Not surprising. They need exclusives to compete against Sony and that´s the only way to have them...

#5834554

XP-200

2020-09-24 16:22

Sega next up, and i won't say no to Sega's back cat appearing again, i will take a return of Outrun and Sega Rally in a hearbeat.

#5834556

Ghosty

2020-09-24 16:24

XP-200:

Sega next up, and i won't say no to Sega's back cat appearing again, i will take a return of Outrun and Sega Rally in a hearbeat.

Nothing Sega has is going to be smash hit, which got them in to financial trouble in the first place. Lazy ports, unfinished, buggy Sonic games.