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[SpongebobSquaredance]

They should buy Pornhub

Now included with Gamepass Ultimate

 

[the_master]

SEGA

 

[Tiamat2san]

Realistically techland, asobo...

ideally a big Japanese company like Sega, capcom, Konami or square.

the meltdown would be like Craig....infinite!

 

[trikster40]

Whoever they buy, they’re going to overpay for. They set a bad precedent by overpaying for Zenimax/Bethesda.

 

[12Dannu123]

I find it completely bizarre that people are supporting this. Buying up studios, unless they are small/medium, isn't good for consumers. All it does is limit the platforms games are available on that were previously unrestricted without any benefit.

I really hope this isn't starting a trend where every big publisher/developer gets snatched up.

The only loss is PS only gamers. Everyone else is fine, until Sony is forced to accept Game Pass on PS5, PS gamers will continue to get shafted by MS.

 

[Batiman]

But Sony Santa Monica and I won’t need a PS5

 

[Stilton Disco]

Just think how many more potentially great games could have existed with that $10b instead. They've spent a fortune and all they've done is just made the industry that bit smaller and less enjoyable for their competitors customers.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Saber interactive
Porting Halo MCC
Quake Chanpions
Halo Online
Halo CEA

It’sa bit of a no brainier

 

[Venom Snake]

Sure, let them buy even more third-party gaming studios so they can produce their third-party content as first-party, limiting the choice is all that the modern consumer needs.

 

[The Shift]

SEGA

Microsoft:
Games as a Service

Sega:
Service Games

 

[Albion]

Why don't you just show us footage of all these cool studios' games running on the next gen? I feel like ive been reading more about next gen than seeing it.

 

[Walter Matthau]

The endgame for Xbox is not XSX, it's Gamepass and xCloud services which are still in their infancy. If they don't build up their catalog now then late competitors can swoop in and eat their lunch.

 

[Birdo]

KONAMI

 

[semicool]

I'd rather MS buy a big studio than Google or Amazon so they can put them Exclusively on their Exclusively respective streaming platforms. At least we would still have the option to buy and play the IP natively.

 

[BlackTron]

They should buy Pornhub

I dunno, Xbox doesn't seem serious about VR gaming.

 

[Bryank75]

If i were Microsoft I would attack the European front, Japan has too many competitor that are very strong.
I would acquire some strong european publisher like THQ Nordic, Techland or KOCH media.

People will resent them more than anything if they buy a Japanese brand and on top of that the government can just block an acquisition of any stock over 10% for any reason.... it's not just a law, it's just what the government think is best for the country.

 

[quickwhips]

They should buy who ever owns torus games. More kid games on gamepass the better.

 

[Bryank75]

They should buy who ever owns torus games. More kid games on gamepass the better.

They do need more games aimed at a younger demographic.

 

[aries_71]

I heard Bungie did want to be acquired? But why? Didn’t they live MS to find freedom?

 

[Bryank75]

I heard Bungie did want to be acquired? But why? Didn’t they live MS to find freedom?

Where did you hear that?

 

[Fulcizombie]

Capcom would be so sweet. In Nadella and Spencer we trust.

 

[Bryank75]

Capcom would be so sweet. In Nadella and Spencer we trust.

Good luck, I don't think they sell out to western pig-dogs over there.

 

[lock2k]

 

[Roronoa Zoro]

The only loss is PS only gamers. Everyone else is fine, until Sony is forced to accept Game Pass on PS5, PS gamers will continue to get shafted by MS.

Sure if you like gamepass

 

[Darklor01]

Oh buy me buy me!

 

[DavidGzz]

Buy Nintendo to make me care about their games again.

 

[RokkanStoned]

Only purchase I could imagine accounting for their weaknesses is Square Enix. They'd grab Tomb Raider, Drakengard/Nier and Legacy of Kain for 3rd person action adventure storydriven game. Deus Ex and Thief, just ruling those immersive sim rpgs. Just Cause for sandbox game. Gex for kid game. And of course, all the great japanese titles Chrono, FF, KH, DQ, Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile.

Of course, that's HIGHLY unlikely, but would basically say "buy an Xbox". Personally I'd like them to instead manage their studios properly and get new IPs instead. Perhaps investing in a few new creative studios in Japan. Doing the work, recruiting the right talent, having a good project supervisor. That and actually using some of their nostalgic hitting IPs like Banjo & Kazooie and to an extent Perfect Dark.

A personal desire is for either Sony, Microsoft or Square Enix to buy the Shadow Hearts/Koudelka IP from whoever currently owns it.

 

[iHaunter]

Nice .. now buy Sony and put the whole thing on GamePass

Bloodborne 2 games as a service? Hard pass. I don't want Sony IPs to get Halo Infiited.

 

[Fulcizombie]

Bloodborne 2 games as a service? Hard pass. I don't want Sony IPs to get Halo Infiited.

Agreed, endless walking in games (trying to finish TLOU2 and the walking sections and cut scenes.....oooof) is so much better.

 

[LazyParrot]

MS didn't buy Bethesda so Xbox would have more games. All their games were coming to Xbox anyway. They bought them to take games away from Sony (and, therefore, potentially, a ton of players). It's kind of a dick move.

And yes, it would have been just as much of a dick move if Sony had done the same thing.

 

[12Dannu123]

Only purchase I could imagine accounting for their weaknesses is Square Enix. They'd grab Tomb Raider, Drakengard/Nier and Legacy of Kain for 3rd person action adventure storydriven game. Deus Ex and Thief, just ruling those immersive sim rpgs. Just Cause for sandbox game. Gex for kid game. And of course, all the great japanese titles Chrono, FF, KH, DQ, Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile.

Of course, that's HIGHLY unlikely, but would basically say "buy an Xbox". Personally I'd like them to instead manage their studios properly and get new IPs instead. Perhaps investing in a few new creative studios in Japan. Doing the work, recruiting the right talent, having a good project supervisor. That and actually using some of their nostalgic hitting IPs like Banjo & Kazooie and to an extent Perfect Dark.

A personal desire is for either Sony, Microsoft or Square Enix to buy the Shadow Hearts/Koudelka IP from whoever currently owns it.

Building up studios takes lot of time and effort and takes years of investment. The subscription shift is happening right now, there simply isn't enough time to build new IP and studios. So to retain their competitive advantage, Microsoft is aggressively acquiring as much publishers and studios as possible, this will keep Amazon and Google at bay in the streaming wars, while also removing third party support from Sony in the console wars.

 

[martino]

Only purchase I could imagine accounting for their weaknesses is Square Enix. They'd grab Tomb Raider, Drakengard/Nier and Legacy of Kain for 3rd person action adventure storydriven game. Deus Ex and Thief, just ruling those immersive sim rpgs. Just Cause for sandbox game. Gex for kid game. And of course, all the great japanese titles Chrono, FF, KH, DQ, Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile.

Of course, that's HIGHLY unlikely, but would basically say "buy an Xbox". Personally I'd like them to instead manage their studios properly and get new IPs instead. Perhaps investing in a few new creative studios in Japan. Doing the work, recruiting the right talent, having a good project supervisor. That and actually using some of their nostalgic hitting IPs like Banjo & Kazooie and to an extent Perfect Dark.

A personal desire is for either Sony, Microsoft or Square Enix to buy the Shadow Hearts/Koudelka IP from whoever currently owns it.

i don't think it will be easy for them to buy the studio owning Dragon quest

 

[BRZBlue]

I hadn't thought of Kojima, which someone mentioned up above.

That relationship would actually be incredible. Kojima is a developer who has spent his entire career trying to just do what he wants to do, but has kept being pulled back to blockbuster AAA. Death Stranding, one of my favourite games of the last year, was incredible, but got mixed reviews and was only just profitable. Now imagine the compromises he made to get it to appeal to even that market. Then he struggled to get funding for his next game.

Now give him Microsoft money and the ability to just make the games he wants, because of Gamepass. No need to convince someone to purchase a game, so just go wild. The barrier of entry doesn't exist.

Of course that might just lead to a Norman Reedus dating sim (Troy Baker as DLC), but if that's what he wants to make, Gamepass is the way to go.

It's not going to happen. I'm not sure Kojima wants tose his independence again, and I don't blame him. But out of Sony and Microsoft right now, I think Microsoft probably would suit him better.

Kojima has, atleast anecdotally, a dislike of MS. He really disliked their management style, and it was supposedly one of the reasons he sided with Sony after leaving Konami. Rumor was he turned MS down cold on any offers.

 

[Corrik]

Sega is worth less than half what they just paid for Zenimax.

Sega Sammy Hldg · Market Cap
360.21 billion USD

Sega is a part of Sammy.

(I see this in Yen and USD so not sure which it is. If in yen, then in USD it is 3.29 Billion USD)


Konami Hldg · Market Cap
617.05 billion USD

(I see this in Yen and USD so not sure which it is. If in yen, then in USD it is 6.15 Billion USD)


Capcom · Market Cap
809.97 billion JPY

(This converts to 7.67 Billion USD)

Bandai Namco HD · Market Cap
1.73 trillion JPY

(This converts to 16.38 Billion USD)

Square Enix
7.909 Billion USD


You are going to pay a premium though likely over their market caps though.

 

[CatLady]

All I want to know is why haven't they bought Asobo yet.

 

[VincentMatts]

GOOD

 

[IntentionalPun]

I find it completely bizarre that people are supporting this. Buying up studios, unless they are small/medium, isn't good for consumers. All it does is limit the platforms games are available on that were previously unrestricted without any benefit.

I really hope this isn't starting a trend where every big publisher/developer gets snatched up.

Since we are in the age of "purchase wars" it seems I'm trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel here.

There are some positive outcomes of Sony or MS buying studios, even large ones.

- Cash injections
- For MS consumers get more games day 1 on Gamepass (no I do not want to have the 'but gamepass turns every game into live service' argument again)
- For Sony consumers get.. well.. a studio managed by Sony, they clearly know what they are doing
- Better access to internal developers / expertise
- Less platforms = more focused projects from a technical perspective

But overall I'm negative on consolidation.

 

[johntown]

From Software

 

[Mmnow]

Kojima has, atleast anecdotally, a dislike of MS. He really disliked their management style, and it was supposedly one of the reasons he sided with Sony after leaving Konami. Rumor was he turned MS down cold on any offers.

After the team up with Sony, Kojima said:

“It’s thanks to Sony that I was able to make a splash in the global market. It’s been 10-plus years since then and the working relationship at Sony, the people at Sony, we gel well…. I got several offers from many different companies, but with Sony it came to a point where I know these people, they know me, we know each other well.”

Which is all well and good until Sony stop funding his games or start to expect a degree of editorial control.

I've never heard he's got any problem with Microsoft before. I'm sure that'd soon disappear if they agreed to fund his circumcision serial killer game sight unseen.

Nah the real reason Kojima will stay independent is because he was tied to Konami for forever and look how that turned out. I'm certain 50 publishers want to fund his games just to say they did.

 

[MrFunSocks]

Sega Sammy Hldg · Market Cap
360.21 billion USD

Sega is a part of Sammy.

(I see this in Yen and USD so not sure which it is. If in yen, then in USD it is 3.29 Billion USD)


Konami Hldg · Market Cap
617.05 billion USD

(I see this in Yen and USD so not sure which it is. If in yen, then in USD it is 6.15 Billion USD)


Capcom · Market Cap
809.97 billion JPY

(This converts to 7.67 Billion USD)

Bandai Namco HD · Market Cap
1.73 trillion JPY

(This converts to 16.38 Billion USD)

Square Enix
7.909 Billion USD


You are going to pay a premium though likely over their market caps though.

Not sure where you got all that from, but it’s not right. Maybe you’re looking at yen?

Sega Sammy Holdings Market Cap Analysis | YCharts

In depth view into Sega Sammy Holdings Market Cap including historical data from 2008, charts and stats.

ycharts.com

SGAMY Stock Price | Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. ADR Stock Quote (U.S.: OTC) | MarketWatch

SGAMY | A complete SGAMY overview by MarketWatch. View the latest market news and prices, and trading information.

www.marketwatch.com

Their market cap is not even USD$3bil. There wouldn’t be talks of MS buying them if they were $300bil lol.

 

[Three]

Better than Sony too, because Sony would make them all playstation console exclusive, meaning no PC versions.

All Sony games are coming to PC and all Sony games are not coming to PC!

 

[VincentMatts]

They will probably focus on a Japanese purchase, but I would get Bungie if I were them.

WB aren't worth it as you don't get any of the DC, LOTR, Lego licenses with that, EA, Ubi, take2, activision all cost too much.

 

[Redlancet]

Sure, let them buy even more third-party gaming studios so they can produce their third-party content as first-party, limiting the choice is all that the modern consumer needs.

You dont get the memo? According to us games media and podcasters is amazing an brillant and brave when microsoft does, the same exact people who a month ago were doing drama about Spiderman being exclusive on the Avengers game and doing boicotts to the game

 

[Redlancet]

Which is all well and good until Sony stop funding his games or start to expect a degree of editorial control.

I

So another what if scenario

 

[Mmnow]

So another what if scenario

In this thread about what if scenarios? Oof. Well spotted.

 

[Captain Hero]

Bloodborne 2 games as a service? Hard pass. I don't want Sony IPs to get Halo Infiited.

I was joking

 

[Redlancet]

In this thread about what if scenarios? Oof. Well spotted.

so you want to do to kojima what microsoft did to bungie or the coalition? why?

 

[Aggelos]

Typical Microsoft strategy, buy the competition and ruin the industry

They've been doin' that since the '80s, so why change now?...

 

[Mmnow]

so you want to do to kojima what microsoft did to bungie or the coalition? why?

Haven't there been enough bans lately? Lazy trolling ftw.

Listen man, Kojima could release his next game on a piece of cheese and I'd spend whatever he asked for it. But the Gamepass style of entry suits his non-MGS output better than having to charge $70 for it. And he hated being tied to MGS.

 

[Fulcizombie]

From Software would be nice. No Kojima though, he can stick with Sony for all eternity.