If Microsoft gets Take2 and a few game development studios in the next few years… It would genuinely feel like gaming has came full circle for me.
Xbox One era was just so flat until the Xbox One X released, but even then Ubisoft and EA were putting out the same shit every other year.
The thoughts of Xbox with 30-40 development studios and multiple teams within each studio, utilising Microsofts bank balance to drive creativity both in games and behind the scenes with game engines etc, is just monumental.
Not to mention Xbox financally backing independent 3rd party game devs to fill Gamepass as well.
I wouldn’t normally be the type to fanboy or console war… but you’d have to imagine Sony head honchos looking at Playstation and going, how do you reply to this?
We all know Satya Nadella has his bonuses tied to Xbox gaming revenue now as well… You have to speculate to accumulate.
When an offer per share is made to a board of directors. The company holding the shares must obviously notify the shareholders and advise them whether to sell or not. But they must also notify the stock exchange at some stage is my impression… insider trading etc.
Here is text from the press release where Microsoft announced the intent to acquire LinkedIn
“The transaction has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both LinkedIn and Microsoft. The deal is expected to close this calendar year and is subject to approval by LinkedIn’s shareholders, the satisfaction of certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.”
Sounds like it needs to be approved by board, shareholders, and go through all the regulatory stuff. They announced it as soon as the boards approved though, so there is no need for it to go public just because there are talks.
I didn’t mean they had to release a press brief saying they were in talks to sell/merge.
I was saying that the board has to notify shareholders to sell the company or to hold off on a offer as they feel the shares are under valued etc.
At some stage the stock exchange where the shares are listed has to be notified for regulatory reasons…whether a press release is notification I don’t know.
Yeah, I’m just saying that in this scenario the shareholder approval came after the board of directors reached a deal. So nobody outside the board of directors needs to know before announcement.
There was rumors about Microsoft acquiring EA in 2018 and I think those rumors were true but then they decided to wait for GP growth and in 2020 they acquired Bethesda. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they acquire T2 or any other publisher, Satya loves big IPs because they bring millions of fans and subscribers.
Can we just have one studio please? Forget about a publisher, I just want some kind of forward movement.
I’m 100% sure that Sony is announcing Bluepoint acqusition this week, either Tuesday before the show, or during/after the show on Thursday, but Sony is getting another studio this week/coming week.
So even if it’s just “Microsoft had talks with X/Y/Z” I’d take it.
Yeah I know Satya and Phil blah blah yadda yadda yadda, but man it’s so strange how we went from “X number of studios in talks/finalization” right before E3, and now crickets.
They’ll announce one when they are ready to. For all the talk of “strategic/counter announcements” in these threads I can’t actually recall a single strategic announcement from neither Sony nor MS of any acquisition, conference, game announcement, or anything.
