Q: Could Sony buy the rights to Halo/Forza/RYSE/DR3, etc... if Microsoft sells off the Xbox Division?
I never even posted about Sweden & Denmark. I was out for a while.
Q: Could Sony buy the rights to Halo/Forza/RYSE/DR3, etc... if Microsoft sells off the Xbox Division?
Retro Studios Banjo-Threeie believeSony or Nintendo needs to buy whatever part owns Rare, strip the valuable IPs from it and kill Rare. Let a competent developer make a new Banjo or Conker game.
If they can't find a buyer, I don't think that it's that far fetched for them to pull a "Sega" and outright kill the division.And now Samsung does not make any money from TV's anymore either.
No successful company will buy Xbox business or Playstation business because they wont pay to lose money. It is very simple really.
I wonder if they'd sell things piecemeal as some of that will have a buyer, or actually go third party? Might be worth staying as a game publisher and accessory manufacturer even if gaming hardware's no good. Though they could just as easily be repurposed as a PC supplemental service too.If they can't find a buyer, I don't think that it's that far fetched for them to pull a "Sega" and outright kill the division.
Nintendo should be the only one who gets the Rare IPs back, if at all.Sony or Nintendo needs to buy whatever part owns Rare, strip the valuable IPs from it and kill Rare. Let a competent developer make a new Banjo or Conker game.
Sony or Nintendo needs to buy whatever part owns Rare, strip the valuable IPs from it and kill Rare. Let a competent developer make a new Banjo or Conker game.
Yeah, Elop managed to tank the company in a quarter. This is the equivalent of people blaming Obama for the economic downturn in his first year of office.
Moving to Windows Phone was actually a logically sound move. If you move to Android, you're competing with pretty much every mobile manufacturer on the planet while conceding a head start in the proccess, but moving over to Windows Phone gave their devices a unique attribute and Microsoft's advertising machine.
Q: Could Sony buy the rights to Halo/Forza/RYSE/DR3, etc... if Microsoft sells off the Xbox Division?
Out of these, only Halo worth any money. I am sure Activision will outbid everybody.
It really wasn't logical at all. Windows Phone was already tanking and a Nokia designed Android phone would have done amazing in the market. They still have some great hardware design. I do t think I can count the times tech websites said or wrote that the Lumia phones are great hardware but would be much better with Android on them.
No, I'm saying it's ridiculous to suggest that a nose dive occurring a quarter following Elop's hiring is the result of his policies. He's not the one who doubled down on Symbian in 2010 after every other manufacturer abandoned ship for Android. He was handed a ship that was perfectly in tact and seemingly plush, but moments away from crashing into an iceberg. The policies and devices in development had to run their course before he could take action.
Sega buys the Xbox Division, and saves Capcom. The prophecy is happening. The return is coming.
The drop occurred 3 quarters after he became CEO. He made the decision to announce a platform switch and not actually release anything on the new platform until 3 quarters later, too--announcing the switch in February 2011 and not releasing a Windows Phone until November 2011, 9 months later. A better strategy might have been to NOT Osborne your current smartphone sales for 3 quarters while you switch platforms, and announce when you are ready to release the new Lumia line. Only Microsoft benefited from Nokia announcing a platform switch 9 months early.No, I'm saying it's ridiculous to suggest that a nose dive occurring a quarter following Elop's hiring is the result of his policies. He's not the one who doubled down on Symbian in 2010 after every other manufacturer abandoned ship for Android. He was handed a ship that was perfectly in tact and seemingly plush, but moments away from crashing into an iceberg. The policies and devices in development had to run their course before he could take action.
If only Sega had $11 billion to buy the xbox division. That's what some analysts estimate its worth. I think only Apple, Google or Amazon would have the capital to buy xbox.
The drop occurred 3 quarters after he became CEO. He made the decision to announce a platform switch and not actually release anything on the new platform until 3 quarters later, too--announcing the switch in February 2011 and not releasing a Windows Phone until November 2011, 9 months later. A better strategy might have been to NOT Osborne your current smartphone sales for 3 quarters while you switch platforms, and announce when you are ready to release the new Lumia line. Only Microsoft benefited from Nokia announcing a platform switch 9 months early.
Yet the core audience is still there as 3DS continues to thrive. Clearly the market for dedicated game consoles is still alive and well regardless if these generic do everything media devices claim they can play games. It's like saying since there are flash games that people can play on their PC, the hardcore PC gaming market is going to collapse and become less relevant.
There's no way that Apple or Google would take it. And Amazon would ruin it with tons of cutbacks. If Elop doesn't change his mind, then the Xbox brand is history. I got burned by the Dreamcast so I know what the fans will go through.If only Sega had $11 billion to buy the xbox division. That's what some analysts estimate its worth. I think only Apple, Google or Amazon would have the capital to buy xbox.
The drop occurred 3 quarters after he became CEO. He made the decision to announce a platform switch and not actually release anything on the new platform until 3 quarters later, too--announcing the switch in February 2011 and not releasing a Windows Phone until November 2011, 9 months later. A better strategy might have been to NOT Osborne your current smartphone sales for 3 quarters while you switch platforms, and announce when you are ready to release the new Lumia line. Only Microsoft benefited from Nokia announcing a platform switch 9 months early.
http://arstechnica.com/information-...hire-any-ceo-who-wants-to-kill-bing-and-xbox/Xbox: The part of Microsoft people actually love
The Xbox finances are a lot muddier. Sherlund claims that Microsoft loses about $2 billion a year on Xbox, but manages to mask this entirely with $2 billion a year in Android patent royalties. While this was possible under Microsoft's old reporting structure, which grouped all of this revenue under Entertainment & Devices, Sherlund's claims are harder to reconcile with Microsoft's most recent figures, where licensing revenue and hardware revenue are handled separately, and one can't be used to offset the other.
According to the current reporting style, the Devices and Consumer Hardware business, which spans Surface, Xbox 360, and peripheral sales, third-party Xbox game revenue and Xbox LIVE subscriptions had a $0.2 billion gross margin on revenue of $1.5 billion. That's not as lucrative as the licensing segments, which, being software, have essentially zero marginal cost, but it's not the $0.5 billion per quarter that Sherlund thinks Xbox is losing, either.
The profitability of the Xbox business varies over the course of the yearit tends to do better at Christmasand through the lifecycle of the console. Early units will be expensive to build, potentially even loss-making. Later ones will be cheaper to build. As the console grows older, more games will be available, and hence more game revenue will be earned, too.
As long as the Xbox One avoids Red Ring of Death-style debacles, the Xbox One business should be profitable over its lifetime, if not from year 1. If nothing else, between Xbox 360 and Xbox One, Microsoft should be able to attract 40-50 million Xbox LIVE subscribers paying around $40-50 a year. That's about $1.6-2.5 billion for doing essentially nothing: it's money for old rope.
MS should buy Sega and sell both Xbox and Sega to Apple.