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Microsoft has acquired 3̶ 5 more studios
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The Alien
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I'd prefer Asobo and People Can Fly. Each are really talented, can make a wide variety of games and have a history of working well with Microsoft.
Not sure I'd like Crytek. Sure they have the CryEngine and Crysis. But, now MS owns idTech, so they don't really need another engine. And I'd rather see them spend the likely high sum elsewhere.
Avalanche could be a nice fit because, I believe, they self publish which is part of MS strategy. Its one of many things they liked about Bethesda. I also love the Mad Max game they made so feel they got some talent.
CD Projekt Red would be interesting considering how much their price may have dropped following Cyberpunk, but don't think that's happening.
Stretch....that would be great: they bought Netherrealm and Mortal Kombat IP from WB Games. I think that WB Games deal was closer than many thought, but was odd they pulled it back after having it on the market while still remaining in debt.
Not sure I'd like Crytek. Sure they have the CryEngine and Crysis. But, now MS owns idTech, so they don't really need another engine. And I'd rather see them spend the likely high sum elsewhere.
Avalanche could be a nice fit because, I believe, they self publish which is part of MS strategy. Its one of many things they liked about Bethesda. I also love the Mad Max game they made so feel they got some talent.
CD Projekt Red would be interesting considering how much their price may have dropped following Cyberpunk, but don't think that's happening.
Stretch....that would be great: they bought Netherrealm and Mortal Kombat IP from WB Games. I think that WB Games deal was closer than many thought, but was odd they pulled it back after having it on the market while still remaining in debt.
jakinov
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Some studios might take 5 or more years to produce a game. Some studios are doing small projects and one isn’t even making a game directly. Some studios might get tied with supporting long term projects and so might not have a frequent release cadence.
Zeroing
Banned
Faith in humanity restored
oldergamer
Member
Out of that list its asobo, techland, and Focus
Soulblighter31
Banned
All their games will be available un numerous platforms and devices. Its only the sony obsessed tribals who shackle themselves and worship that stupid jap company that are missing out. Everyone else can play the games. Microsoft owning studios is as multiplatform as you get compared to anyone else
MvCSpiderman
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Intel
NVIDEA
AMD
New Microsoft Titan X for $3500 get 200fps 480p with no shadows. Cheaper Xbox Raydeon Zen for Netbooks. All running on SpencerPhil i3 processors.
NVIDEA
AMD
New Microsoft Titan X for $3500 get 200fps 480p with no shadows. Cheaper Xbox Raydeon Zen for Netbooks. All running on SpencerPhil i3 processors.
Zeroing
Banned
cool story bro! Yeah available everywhere as long is connected to MS ecosystem. I would love to see your reaction if all this was Nintendo doing it. Or Sony! I am sure you would be having meltdowns.
I know it’s easy for you to talk when your favorite brand is doing things that only impact the others, not you!
with that being said! A Fans will argue with B fans because reasons.
not sure why I even bother…
Matsuchezz
Member
So they are trying to beat number 1 just by sheer numbers.
SafeOrAlone
Banned
That's not fair. When I said Xbox had no games, I wanted it to stay that way.
cry moar
Tell us more about this "stupid Jap company"?
iJudged
Banned
Hope it`s not going to kill studios.
scarlet0pimp
Member
Crytek, then bring hunt showdown to game pass and make them do a next gen update
Aiming for 1 game every 3 months hours keep the pipeline fast so devs aren’t crunching or rushed. They’re taking a take your time approach so they really got to have enough devs to support this. Granted this doesn’t include 2/3rd party deals. Xbox is on it way to it’s best gen.
Hezekiah
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It's had a really slow start, and you have no idea whether any of the announced games will be any good - we've barely even seen anything from most of them.
That's why I feel much more secure on the PC side as I'm not tied to a company that has a history of promising big and delivering little.
prinz_valium
Member
Can't be a publicly traded company. You have to announce as soon as you reach a deal. So no Sega or CDPR.
iJudged
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what GPU/CPU do you have?
Smoke6
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Undeniable at what? At the end of all this they’ll be publishers bro! With data caps that don’t make sense and people internet not equipped to handle streaming, they’re a long ways off from being where Sony and Nintendo are!
Let’s see who these studios are first as like I said before, it’s gonna be next gen before you really get to see what these studios are doing exclusively and y’all don’t buy games anymore like y’all used to on Xbox so therefore those gamepass numbers have to be close to if not more than 100mil at full price
Look at this point 26 studios aren’t releasing 26+ shitty games. 5 of their studios already product consistently good games Zenimax games aren’t bad either so it’s kind of impossible to say “we don’t know if they’ll be good”... we know some will already. It’s the unknown that we can’t judge.
ResilientBanana
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It's odd to me that people only care about data caps when talking about gaming, yet, they stream everything else.
hemo memo
Gold Member
Well, I am a Sony fan but I am still happy. The more pressure to Jimbo and Sony to act the better.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
erm they will still make games on disc you know and game pass you download the game and not stream it. exactly the same as sony does
Smoke6
Member
Dude none of Xbox even chart and haven’t for a while! I remember back in 360 they used to do box office numbers if not better with their games and nothing from them since they started this gamepass mess!
please name off all the games that’s been platinum or sold as well as they have before on the 360 til now?
I’ll wait…
John Wick
Member
Shit! Nintendo and Sony should just pack up now because MS is gonna give a free SX and VRR capable TV with a GPU prescription
Hezekiah
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Lol is this supposed to be some sort of test?
Saucy Papi
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hemo memo
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Actually Microsoft is genius and this IS the future of gaming. A reliable gaming service. You don’t need to stream. You can download from a large library. It is not the shitty 3 games monthly from Sony PS+ that make no sense to a new subscriber and doesn’t offer access to a full library and PSNow is not reliable and Sony can’t keep doing big releases forever and increasing cost because that’s unsustainable.
iJudged
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no, I am just curious, i am running the older i7-8600k with GTX 1080ti, hunting for rtx3080/AMD 6800XT, whichever i run into first, now, ANSWER MY QUESTION!
phil_t98
#SonyToo
digital downloads are a thing you know.
also games on gamepass dont need to chart do they. if halo infinite is on gamepass there will be enough sales still and gamepass subs to play it
Raphael
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I would trade larian for paradox and ms can sign me up for life
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vaibhavpisal
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I hope they are not Bethesda sized.
Smoke6
Member
Yes games need to chart on games pass dude so therefore you can get an idea of what the forecast looks like for DLC and shit since y’all games aren’t gonna sale since it’s on gamespass day 1!
you have dev costs like halo infinite that’s over $500mil (rumored)
Marketing which would be another $100mil
And so on!
that’s just one game dude we can go into the $7.2bil acquisition and I’m sure that’s not counting funding for fames that are in dev right now that you may or may not see this gen!
So tell me if this was outta your own pocket, how many games would have to sell and how many subs would you need to just recoup that to break even?
Fredrik
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My take. I can’t find a PS5 anyway so the more studios MS secure for the Xbox and PC the better it is, for me. No idea which studios this could be though, probably something small since the big ones are already taken or there would’ve been smoke.
Topher
Gold Member
Microsoft has their own fair share of "big releases" coming so I don't get why you are saying that is unsustainable. Either way, Sony is doing very well with their business model. I keep reading people saying such and such is "the future of gaming". The games industry is not a "one way or the highway" business . There are a multitude of business models currently in gaming and Microsoft's future isn't the only future
Bethesda didn’t have any smoke. We just knew another acquisition was on the way.
I may have lost touch with what people who play games are hoping for these days, so can anyone explain how buying studios is a mic drop moment?