Blackace said:
Like I said before MS buys Take 2 as a whole.. takes Rock Star, Fraxis, Irrational and 2k Sports...and sells off whatever else they can.. get investment if they don't lose people...be far better use of money than buying rare
I disagree, that money could be better spent on buying developers outright. There is a huge premium being paid for the publishing side, which is worthless to MS as they already have a publishing business.
Rare is a diferent story, it didn`t turn out exactly like they wanted it to, but saying "better value than rare" chortle chortle doesn't make it more likely.
As long as Sony doesn`t buy Rockstar, then they aren`t worth it.
Capcom is a better choice for Ms to buy, by a long way. They have an engine that runs well on 360, and a bunch of proven IPs including next gen IPs that are all million sellers, and it helps the japanese angle too. As well as buying up a load of IP for XBLA as well.
Anyway, MS current strategy of working with other companies to get the games they want whilst retaining some of the IP seems to be working fine, so why change it?