That’s a lot of us, here.
I realize that this horse has been flogged to death but I do want to add one thing that I don’t think has been mentioned so far, but I think with SEGA you have an opportunity of a partnership that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Microsoft has been loud and clear that they believe in preserving the history of games. Their efforts in backwards compatibility have been out of this world. Once MS owns SEGA, they may have a vested interest in offering their entire back catalog to Xbox gamers, perhaps? We see the original Xbox and the Xbox 360 being emulated on the One and on the Series consoles. Who’s to say they won’t make the same effort for the Master System, Mega Drive, Saturn, and Dreamcast? This sort of initiative wouldn’t come from SEGA, but MS would be interested.
And with SEGA’s experience in arcade games, who’s to say that they could introduce Xbox and Gamepass to the world of arcades? You could say that arcades are dead, but arcade games still live on in bowling alleys, movie theaters, entertainment complexes, etc. I don’t want to get into this too much but I actually have written notes about this idea and maybe I’ll post a thread about it in the future. So if anyone has any thoughts on this topic please hold until I create that thread, I don’t want to be responsible for derailing this one. 
But I think they are ingenious ways of marketing Gamepass with arcades and leveraging the Xbox Network and the Xbox App on people’s phones with arcades. Again, I’ll get into details in a future thread.
The other area where this relationship could blossom is that SEGA would have much better insight on breaking into the Japanese market with xCloud. SEGA might convince MS that a handheld streaming-only device is needed (hey I’ll make a thread for that too I have a couple thousand words written on that already heh). MS clearly isn’t interested in such a device but if SEGA is convinced this is needed to break into Japan, MS would at least take the proposal seriously. My point is that their input is extremely invaluable and when it comes to the Japanese market they could be in the co-driver’s seat.
So whereas all of these other partnerships between developers/publishers and Microsoft are pretty straightforward I think one with Sega creates many new opportunities and a cooperation that’s on another level. It’s not as simple as “we’re publishing your games now” like you could see with Capcom, but rather a partnership that brings two innovators together.
All that said, SEGA of Japan doesn’t have the best track record so I’m not going to pretend that they’re equal partners. But rather they’ll have a strong voice.
#MakeSegaFirstPartyAgain hehe
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