Xbox Acquisition |OT2| Something, Something, Snowball Effect

[johancruijff]

i love TT

[Searsy82]

NRS should hire a second team for KI and call it Ultratech

[CristianTheWriter (Cris)]

Just got off of work Did I miss anything guys?

[DHorizonX]

MK vs Killer instinct ?

[Sydle]

@Searsy82

NRS should hire a second team for KI and call it Ultratech

Doesn’t NRS make MK and Injustice? Is that one team that alternates on those two series, or two teams?

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

@Wi11iaM

after zenimax acquisition absolutly no one is safe, the xbox division having direct support from the microsoft CEO could not result in another scenario

Edit. First post here, i love this community, my greetings to you all straight from Brazil

Welcome! or better: Seja Bem vindo!

[Searsy82]

@Sydle

Doesn’t NRS make MK and Injustice? Is that one team that alternates on those two series, or two teams?

Well if NRS gets sold they likely wont be making Injustice games anymore.

[PsyDec]

@DHorizonX

MK vs Killer instinct ?

You mean Killer Kombat

[BRiT]

@Proven

If this all turns out to be a bunch of nothing like E3 was then I’ll have some trust issues.

We got you, no worries…

Edit: sorry, didn’t catch the last second of the first one on first posting.

[Shpeshal_Nick]

@power

The Touryst was good. Maybe Shinen? They’re Nintendo stans but maybe they would sell and could do something cool with a bigger budget.

If you go back to earlier episodes of the podcast, I stan for Shin’en so often lol.

I would love for MS to acquire them. Incredible talent.

[power]

I’m going to shoot my shot: If Xbox acquires TT along with the ability to license Lego games, they’ll be knocking at Nintendo’s door as a causal oriented juggernaut of games soon enough.

It doesn’t matter if Lego would remain multi-platform like Minecraft—they’d inherently be Xbox games as day one Game Pass titles. They’re also two of the biggest accessible properties in the world.

Now you factor in the revitalization of Rare, the massive franchise that is Sea of Thieves, and you have another big title under your umbrella that is family-friendly and bordering the line of iconic.

Get a few more quality studios under your belt, bring back Banjo and Viva Piñata, and Xbox in parallel to xCloud will be a threat to the Switch. TT is by far the most important acquisition to make out of all of WB in my opinion.

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@Doncabesa

The news here is “yes they are looking as they already said, and these companies are possibilities”. Acquisitions take a looooong time so just sit back, relax, and enjoy the games in the meantime.

[BadNews]

I want a lego Halo game because I am sure I am not the only person that was intrigued by Halo Mega Block that leaked

Mega Bloks Halo | Unreleased by N-Space (2013)

[AllianceOfficer]

@power

… shoot my shot: If Xbox acquires TT along with the ability to license Lego games, they’ll be knocking at Nintendo’s door as a causal oriented juggernaut of games soon enough. It doesn’t matter if Lego would remain multi-platform like Minecraft—they’d inherently be Xbox games as day one Game Pass titles. They’re also two of the biggest accessible properties in the world. Now you factor in the revitalization of Rare, the massive franchise that is Sea of Thieves, and you have another big title under your umbrella that is family-friendly and bordering the line of iconic. Get a few more quality studios under your belt, bring back Banjo and Viva Piñata, and Xbox in parallel to xCloud will be a threat to the Switch. TT is by far the most important acquisition to make out of all of WB in my opinion.

TT Games is awesome, they add one more on top of that and they’ll be close. Nintendo is just a freaking beast with those E rated titles. They especially don’t have anything in the party game aspects which is why I’ve suggested Jackbox in the past.

[GucciGaropp]

Ah so Jez said he doesn’t think acquisitions are happening soon

[BRiT]

They take time to work out all the details. Also, what’s the definition of “soon”?

[power]

@GucciGaropp

Ah so Jez said he doesn’t think acquisitions are happening soon

He also said that he doesn’t have the evidence to neither confirm nor deny that Microsoft is actively in discussions to acquire these teams. Given the rumors spanning a year ago now, I’d say it’s likely they’re poking around at minimum.

Considering we just saw a mobile studio sold off to EA a week ago, and it seems that some of the bloat as it were wants to be trimmed prior to this merger between Discovery and AT&T if I understand correctly, we could see acquisitions relatively soon if discussions have been ongoing since last year.

Other companies will be looking to acquire these studios. Xbox wants more studios. The parent company of TT and NR want to sell them off seemingly with haste. Xbox won’t let either studio go, both that fill a niche missing in its portfolio, without making an effort.

Again, Satya doesn’t get on camera with Phil to talk about how invested Xbox is in gaming, as well as Matt Booty talking about strategic acquisitions, if they don’t have purchases in their sights if not in the pipeline. Jeff Grub said he’s heard that Xbox was looking at NR and Rocksteady.

I will be shocked if when everything is said and done, Xbox doesn’t come away with at least one studio and within the next six months. There’s too much smoke.

[Boosted_Gear]

@BRiT

They take time to work out all the details. Also, what’s the definition of “soon”?

Who said “soon” ?

[Hindle]

Expected NR but not TT

[BRiT]

@Boosted_Gear

Who said “soon” ?

I asked about “soon” from the following post, as that’s the key to knowing what he meant:

Ah so Jez said he doesn’t think acquisitions are happening soon