SPLINTER CELL BABY !
Buy IOI…let them do their thing. That ‘‘one more thing’’ where you see a black screen that suddenly lights up 3 green lights and you hear the sound…that would set the internet on fire. The reactions of Xbox fans would be insane.
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Amazon reportedly paid $250 million for the rights to do a Lord of the Rings TV show. I.P. ownership is really important. The shows you named only exist because of existing I.P. that has had a lot of time and money invested to build. Amazon and HBO had to pay to use them.
Big question is whether WB has continued plans for MK either as movies or tv shows. If they do then it makes sense for them to continue to own the I.P.
This is what made the Bethesda deal so good, even at 7.5 billion. Incredible I.P., awesome tech, massive back catalog of beloved games and a lot of talented teams.
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They should buy SE west and all the IPs which come along with it: Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Hitman, Just Cause, etc…and then IOI and Avalanche. XD
I don’t see MS going to a big publisher and buying an IP without a studio attached, then they’ll have the KI problem.
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The only issue there is Square does not let go of IP easily.
But you could get Square West - without the IP. Which is also a positive.
Castlevania by Ninja Theory is an amazing idea.
I want them to purchase Dark Horse comics and get the Hellboy IP. Hellboy IP created by Coalition would be amazing. Continue Guillermo del Toro’s series, and complete part 3 with a game.
I am also not sure who owns the Spawn IP. Spawn seems to be tailor made for a studio like Ninja Theory or Arkane.
Edit: Spawn is owned by Image Comics.
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MS would never buy SE west without IPs attached. Now we only need to see if GotG will be another bomb, then I suspect the higher-ups in Japan would freak out, their western endeavour is a long streak of failures, they simply don’t understand western market imo, they are only capable of releasing an endless number of FF, FQ an KH.
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From what I’ve seen of Guardians, I don’t think it will set the world afire
To me it looked fun.
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It was ok for me, not bad, but also not outstanding. Anyway, it’s always bad when a game bombs, but like Avengers, it would be in Xbox best interests, all the Avengers failures are directly linked to Sony deals and it’s good pr for Xbox and Guardians is another Sony marketed game considering the gameplay demo.
Turok ip (or Dino Crisis)? Feel like machine games or id software could make a mean turok game. Also Shinji Mikami who created Dino Crisis is now with Xbox
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This is exactly the conclusion I come to every time.
As long as Xbox has a studio ready to go (internal or external) to work on said IP, then awesome! If they don’t then it’ll be just like you said, KI again (and several other IP people want to see come back).
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Yep, 100%.
The fact that they bought the publisher added a tonne of value. If you buy the developer you get the IP for future games, but you don’t get publishing rights to their past games. Zenimax deal was for the entire operation, so they get all income from all past games, and can just drop the entire catalogue onto Game Pass “for free”. It was a great deal.
I do face palm when people say ‘MS overpaid for Zenimax, look at how much Insomniac cost’.
Insomniac came with no IP Sony didn’t already have exclusive rights to (bar Sunset Overdrive and some old stuff no one has heard of), no publishing rights to games. They bought the Insomniac Engine, which is very cool tech. They also – in the short term – get some talented staff. But they didn’t buy the staff. They can leave whenever they want.
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In terms of IP the only stuff that makes sense to me either has to be very big and important (such that you’d assign studios to it or create them), or something that already is associated and is sort of “bringing it home” like Alpha Protocol. Companies typically won’t let go of IP unless they’re either getting paid bonkers numbers or the IP is not lucrative, so I think something like AP is at least “plausible”, although I wouldn’t think it’s a priority of any sort for MS. And you’d want publishing rights on the previous games for something like that too, obviously, so you could release the back catalogue titles, especially if it’s something you’re not likely to actually task a studio with a followup to.
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On Grubb’s show today - wb is saying that these studios that are together contribute to their IP, wb did not say they are not selling them.
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Wb without IP zzzzz
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Id take them, just means they cost less.
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Not many people are aware that Dying Light outsold any Resident Evil game
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I don’t think anyone is doubting the value of the IP.
Personally, I’m just very hesitant when it comes to the management of said IP and of the employees involved.
I’m constantly reminding people of the overvaluation they often give to Capcom and their games 
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Capcom games have peak gameplay for me, nothing comes close.
Dying light is pretty good though.
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