Yes - that event seems partly mysterious. Hoping there will be some content and gamepass app announcemts, ideally.
Sony isn’t “national security blocked”. As block refers to a level of prohibition. Sony was put on a list with over 500 other japanese companies where if you invest more than 1% the government is going to review the transaction prior to it being approved.
No where in the document does it say anyone is blocked from acquiring or investing in any japanese company. While its a bit more restrictive on the surface as its any investment greater than 1%. If someone was going to acquire Sony the change means nothing. As if american company A was going to buy sony outright. That would require approval by government bodies in japan and other territories regardless.
We saw this play out when the EU along with other territories had to approve zenimax acquisition. This isn’t some new thing. It just creates extra steps, the process might take longer. However, its 100% inaccurate to say Sony is “national security blocked” as they aren’t. Anyone can make an investment in sony, anyone can make a move to acquire sony. It would just require approval by the governing body. The previous threshold was 10% investment and now its a 1% or more investment.
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Sorry, I was only summarizing an older post of mine and doing that I was imprecise. This is what I mean:
Phil: I’ll take a Sega, a Square & a WB Games to start - how much change do I have left? 
Get draconian on that idle cash Biden lol.
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Wouldn’t they announce that type of thing on a Monday?
I don’t know, I was asking to the forum. XD
Generally speaking, big announcements are announced the beginning of the week so the news cycle lasts longer
I agree, but they dropped the MLB bomb on friday, so nothing is guaranteed nowadays. XD
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If you are referring to the jeff grub rumor could be anything. Could be game pass on steam, could be an aquisition, could be a revamp of the Microsoft store for pc.
How did they announce zenimax? They said this would be a post or article probably
They announced Zenimax with a Phil Spencer blog post on Xbox Wire the day before Xbox Series preorder.
It seems that Paradox has some problems. Vampire new developer, canceled/delayed projects and now this broken DLC. Wouldn’t surprise me if Paradox is the rumoured PC centric acquisition.
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Paradox would not a good choice for PC Gamers: It hasn’t very good IP. Europa universalis and Crusader Kings are not a masterprice. Sega Is much Better: Total war and Football manager, Company of Heroes
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I disagree, they are a very good pc focused publisher, obviously SEGA would be a bigger get, Paradox is also valued roughly half (21 billions SEK -~ 2,5 billions USD) of SEGA (~4 billions USD) and has much less baggage (no strange media side business, much less employees, located in EU and not in Asia, etc…).
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Paradox is more than 2 billions and they don’t have any seller IP, they also have problem to manage their project (Vampire, new Europa Universalis DLC…), they are not worth
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Paradox would be a good get if you ask me. As Paradox has to walk that line of making ends meet. They aren’t a Ubisoft-sized publisher/developer. Where if they had Microsoft funding and could be afforded that extra time. That would mean alot.
Plus if you look historically studios also grow and improve overtime. When Sony first acquired naughty dog they weren’t the naughty dog you see today.
I also don’t think its an either or situation.
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They have a big PC offering and drop games on xbox also. If the price is right its a great strategic get.
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They have no mainstream IP and they worth more than 2 billions, it’s just not a good deal, even Gearbox was a better deal
Mainstream IP is not always related to console game IP, Paradox games are mainstays of pc gaming since early 2000s and if they were able to be worth more than Gearbox, it should mean something, no?
Anyway, almost all their games are already on GP, so I don’t know if it would make sense for MS to acquire them, because in the console space exclusivity would not make any sense (they are a very small niche over there) and on pc, it’s Tim Sweeney plan to snatch games off Steam, not Phil’s plan.
Gearbox is literally Borderlands, Duke Nuken and a bunch of garbage.
Acquiring Paradox is a sign of intent of Microsoft also delivering PC Centric content.
I agree completely, but, as I was saying, MS already gets all their games on GP (more than Bethesda before acquisition) and in the console space Paradox is not really that important, so spending 2-3 billions might be a little stretch (and we know for a fact that MS values both console and pc).
It’s always SEGA, it makes so much sense: pc, console and Japan all-in-one.
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