Xbox Acquisition |OT| - So We’re Back to Making Lists, Huh?

[OneBadMutha]

@Knottian

Sorry, but that’s not going to happen; WB Games will be sold in total, not with Netherealm as a singular entity. MK is their highest-grossing property right now so it makes absolutely no business sense for ATT to part with their cash cow before any of their other studios, unless it’s in conjunction with a total buyout. I’d really suggest looking at some more analysts before making some of the leaps that you do.

WB has some extremely talented studios. Almost all of them have been good. Would love to see most of them get to work on new IP. Just don’t think ATT is selling without deals on those IPs. Also, as much as Microsoft needs family games, TT’s 5 studios all have been one dimensional. I wonder how well they’d do working on other types of games besides Lego.

We do have to remember that Netflix borrowed Disney’s IPs for most of their rise. Now they can rely on their own. WB and a 10 year deal for their IPs might not be the worst thing…but again, outside of Batman, Mortal Kombat and a return to FEAR, I’d like to see them work on new IP if that choice were given.

Wild card will continue to be Tencent, Google and Amazon pushing in the background.

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

@MonkeyBoyFrancis

“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for timed exclusivity I can tell you I don’t have that in mind, but what I do have are a very particular set of cheques. Cheques I have acquired over a very long career. Cheques that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give me full exclusivity now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will buy you.”

[BlackheartVinyl]

@Hindle

I think MS get Netherealm and the MK IP but pass on the rest

Doesn’t work that way. You get all or nothing.

[AllianceOfficer]

@OneBadMutha

… WB has some extremely talented studios. Almost all of them have been good. Would love to see most of them get to work on new IP. Just don’t think ATT is selling without deals on those IPs. Also, as much as Microsoft needs family games, TT’s 5 studios all have been one dimensional. I wonder how well they’d do working on other types of games besides Lego. We do have to remember that Netflix borrowed Disney’s IPs for most of their rise. Now they can rely on their own. WB and a 10 year deal for their IPs might not be the worst thing…but again, outside of Batman, Mortal Kombat and a return to FEAR, I’d like to see them work on new IP if that choice were given. Wild card will continue to be Tencent, Google and Amazon pushing in the background.

The lego piece might be the biggest in their offerings for what Xbox needs.

[Hindle]

@Knottian

Sorry, but that’s not going to happen; WB Games will be sold in total, not with Netherealm as a singular entity. MK is their highest-grossing property right now so it makes absolutely no business sense for ATT to part with their cash cow before any of their other studios, unless it’s in conjunction with a total buyout. I’d really suggest looking at some more analysts before making some of the leaps that you do.

MS are not interested in the WB licenses at all. I think however they have strong interest in this particular studio due to thier need for a premier fighting dev. My analysis is about as valid as yours mate who still thinks MS are interested in teams like Asobo, or Studio Wildcard.

Time will tell who is right and I will remember this message

[Hindle]

@BlackheartVinyl

Doesn’t work that way. You get all or nothing.

If WB can’t find a buyer for all thier studios, they will have no choice but to sell independently. Doesn’t seem they are having much luck so far

[BlackheartVinyl]

@Hindle

If WB can’t find a buyer for all thier studios, they will have no choice but to sell independently. Doesn’t seem they are having much luck so far

No, they’ve pulled them from sale for now. Doesn’t mean they will forever, but they won’t sell them individually. And why wouldn’t Microsoft want them all anyway? Makes no sense.

[Voodoopeople]

Listeing to teh recent Era posdcast, one presenter (I’m terrible at remembering which…Sorry!!)…mentioned he’d heard a rumoured acquisition that left him “meh”…unless it came with “XXX”.

Now, that suggests to me a studio that he felt underwhelmed about, unless it either came with a specific IP, or an engine, or something else.

There’s some pretty unique takes amongst that presenter group, in terms of game taste’s, so I can’t really speculate as to what would make them go “meh”…but I know one presenter has taste totally opposite to me…he slags off TLOU2 constantly and spends all his time playing Fortnite, so if he thinks it’s “meh”, then this might be quite promising, from my point of view.

Any thoughts about an acquisition that could be deemed to be meh, but better with a specific IP added into the mix?

[dinkeytom]

@Voodoopeople

… teh recent Era posdcast, one presenter (I’m terrible at remembering which…Sorry!!)…mentioned he’d heard a rumoured acquisition that left him “meh”…unless it came with “XXX”. Now, that suggests to me a studio that he felt underwhelmed about, unless it either came with a specific IP, or an engine, or something else. There’s some pretty unique takes amongst that presenter group, in terms of game taste’s, so I can’t really speculate as to what would make them go “meh”…but I know one presenter has taste totally opposite to me…he slags off TLOU2 constantly and spends all his time playing Fortnite, so if he thinks it’s “meh”, then this might be quite promising, from my point of view. Any thoughts about an acquisition that could be deemed to be meh, but better with a specific IP added into the mix?

For me it sounds like IOI or Crytek or even Kojima Productions

[Voodoopeople]

@dinkeytom

For me it sounds like IOI or Crytek or even Kojima Productions

Crytek popped into my head too, with Cryengine sweetening the deal. Not sure though.

[foxlife]

Maybe MS could buy konamy’s IP

[AllianceOfficer]

Konami is closing its gaming division, likely means that they will be selling their IP.

[beastmode10]

@AllianceOfficer

…n a position where the majority of their focus is on steam and rightly so. They’re still headed by Gabe Newell who reportedly is pondering retirement. If that’s true, he may want to cash in before retirement and hand the IP over to someone he’s comfortable with and he’s close to xbox and Phil. He could sell off that portion of the company and those IP and retire a multi billionaire while leaving his company in good position still (steam), the IP and studios in good hands and him and his family secure forever (pretty much).

Valve has some of the biggest IP of the, comparable in size to what Bethesda brought to the table. There’s no other private company that would come close in terms if IP and even a slight chance they’d sell.

IP Counterstrike Team Fortress Portal Half Life Left 4 Dead Dota

Valve acquisition needs a sufficient gap before and after. So that the regulators don’t get too alarmed.

[Witchilich]

After watching this I hope the polish studio rumour referred to The Astronauts.

Witchfire Teaser

[Boosted_Gear]

@Voodoopeople

… teh recent Era posdcast, one presenter (I’m terrible at remembering which…Sorry!!)…mentioned he’d heard a rumoured acquisition that left him “meh”…unless it came with “XXX”. Now, that suggests to me a studio that he felt underwhelmed about, unless it either came with a specific IP, or an engine, or something else. There’s some pretty unique takes amongst that presenter group, in terms of game taste’s, so I can’t really speculate as to what would make them go “meh”…but I know one presenter has taste totally opposite to me…he slags off TLOU2 constantly and spends all his time playing Fortnite, so if he thinks it’s “meh”, then this might be quite promising, from my point of view. Any thoughts about an acquisition that could be deemed to be meh, but better with a specific IP added into the mix?

An acquisition for MS ?

[NierlyCrazy (Alex)]

@Voodoopeople

… teh recent Era posdcast, one presenter (I’m terrible at remembering which…Sorry!!)…mentioned he’d heard a rumoured acquisition that left him “meh”…unless it came with “XXX”. Now, that suggests to me a studio that he felt underwhelmed about, unless it either came with a specific IP, or an engine, or something else. There’s some pretty unique takes amongst that presenter group, in terms of game taste’s, so I can’t really speculate as to what would make them go “meh”…but I know one presenter has taste totally opposite to me…he slags off TLOU2 constantly and spends all his time playing Fortnite, so if he thinks it’s “meh”, then this might be quite promising, from my point of view. Any thoughts about an acquisition that could be deemed to be meh, but better with a specific IP added into the mix?

To me it sounds like Gearbox with the Borderlands IP or Platinum with the Bayonetta IP.

I don’t see people going “meh” to IOInteractive since they constantly release high quality content.

Crytek doesn’t make sense because you know they would come with CryEngine, The Hunt, and Ryse IP. Just not sure if they’d come with Crysis (EA?).

[Voodoopeople]

@Boosted_Gear

An acquisition for MS ?

That’s how I read it

[Boosted_Gear]

@Voodoopeople

That’s how I read it

It was on the XboxEra podcast ?

[Voodoopeople]

@Boosted_Gear

It was on the XboxEra podcast ?

Yep.

[Boosted_Gear]

@Voodoopeople

Yep.

Thanks !