They seem like another classic example of a studio that has been limited by budget/resources, and with Microsoft’s backing could make some really special things. I personally rather enjoyed Rime as a nice Fumito Ueda-like experience. I haven’t played Gylt yet (the Stadia exclusive) but I have heard good things about a lot of their projects, and apparently they have a history with Microsoft - their first game, Deadlight, was published by them.
Sega
IoI
Smilegate
Asobo
Crytek
Wb
And with what’s left maybe Capcom.
Microsoft needs an Asian hub.If they buy tt is because in asia no one wants to sell, they have so much money that they don’t know how to invest, or there is someone else in negotiation that could make tt games exclusive (amazon? sony?)
tt makes sense only for rockstar and at most civ but the rest we want to talk about?
You’re underestimating how massive T2 franchises are. GTA by itself sold more than all main Capcom franchises combined(Resident Evil+Monster Hunter+Street Fighter+DMC+Mega Man+Dead Rising).
These Capcom franchises sold around 300 million copies combined, GTA sold 350 million. T2 also has other massive franchises like NBA(110 million unities sold), Red Dead Redemption(60 million), Civilization(50 million) and Bioshock(38 million).
what if gta 6 flops? focusing on one big ip is not good.
not everyone likes gta…
a gta inside game pass, exclusive from a blow to Sony but also hurts microsoft because it would not sell so well. at least that microsoft is not going to insert-leave the microtransitions in his “mmo”
tt has a profit of 400 million in how much it repays 60 years?
tt’s sports games have ridiculous quality.
93 because they are publishers; it is not said that they all end up in the game pass and exclusive. licensed games will never be removed from playstation
That’s true for every game. Not everyone likes Capcom games. Not everyone likes Sega games. Not everyone likes Warner games. The thing is, GTA V sold 150 million copies, so there’s plenty of people that like the IP…
GTA would probably double the number of Gamepass users and I’m not exaggerating . GTA V sold more than 150 million copies, this is more than entire big franchises, like Resident Evil. When GTA V was on Gamepass it was the most downloaded game every single month, and that’s 7 years after the game release.
Rockstar games would repay T2 costs by itself. The exodus of peopling leaving PS to Xbox if GTA was exclusive would be massive. It is probably the only franchise capable of doing that.
don't get me wrong i would be happy if tt was bought by microsoft but i would like to see bought studies capable of diversifying the catalog. they say they want to buy in asia d not have games and then they buy take two for what 30 billion?
Would prefer a Japanese acquisition. But denying the value of a Take Two acquisition is silly to me. Not that I think a Take Two acquisition is in any way realistic.
Gta would probably be the best franchise to make the casual audience migrate to Xbox and Gamepass. Your average super casual gamer that only plays COD, MADDEN and GTA won’t care about most Capcom, Sega and Square games. But if GTA 6 were to be exclusive I could see a lot of casual gamers migrating to Xbox and maybe using Game Pass.
Absolutely. GTA is a mega franchise. its like Disney owning the Marvel and Stars Wars IP on top of all their classic Disney movies. It would bring in tons of subscribers.
How many Game Pass subs would GTA VI alone pull? 10-15-20 mil? Add the rest of the Take Two franchises like RDR… They could get a million subs for every billion spent.
I know you didn’t ask me but I think GTA 6 could easily bring 50% or more of the people that want to play the game to Gamepass. People would come in to play GTA for 10-15 bucks for a month then when they see all the other cool shit on Gamepass they will stay subscribed.
I dont actually know anyone that is going to buy Halo Infinite. I know my circle of friends are gamers. But I just think casuals will look at the value proposition the same way. Most people that will actually buy Halo are probably uninformed/unaware of Gamepass or really against subscriptions.
They do seem to love making new features and giving us cool services but then just forget about them or just keep them alive and that’s all. The GP:U perks have been pretty and you would think they would be doing cool stuff for their own games but yet here we are.
So when are we going to start a countdown to September 21st?