For example once Rocksteady is done with Suicide Squad and they are motivated for another licensed game, maybe Xbox can get them to do Deadpool in partnership with Marvel of course.
Just an example.
Only downside is that all these studios are busy on multiplats right now, but that’s the same if it’s Take Two or any other, really.
WB makes sense in many ways, plus we already know MS was interested before
I guess the two biggest issues with that right now is…
The discovery merger, if they do end up selling it’s not going to be until the merger completes, at least that seems to be whats been said
The DC IPs and what rights MS would have to use them
LOL , What ???
Most of the people here make general predictions for studios they wish and what is useful for Microsoft
I don’t know how you came to this conclusion that People want this A or B publisher to harm Sony
yep and microsoft has a crap ton in the bank to spend before it loses its value
WB Gaming would be a good acquisition. Rocksteady, TT, Netherrealm and Monolith are amazing studios. WB Montreal(Gotham Knights) and Avalanche(Hogwarts Legacy) are untested but their games look great.
usually it is multiplat by default, and they can get converted to single plat by official diktat. So, don’t worry about that.
wb montreal did arkham origins for ps3 360 and wii u in 2013
plus console versions usually come last
Yeah I found it old that AT&T put the wb games up for sale for two months and as soon as Microsoft entered the fold they took it off the market maybe Microsoft told them just deal with us we have the money.
yea it was odd
they can just buy AT&T’s part/full shares in the new entity and get the studios as a part of that transaction. When the merger completes, they will own the studios.
IP licensing is a different ball game altogether. Unless they are going for the entire wbdiscovery.
There are still two big games unannounced, the Monolith one (last was LOTR in 2017) and the NR one (MK11 in 2019), so they could lock down two big ones in the immediate. Then, yeah, the others will be really materialize far ahead in the future, but still GP day one for big WB games next yeat could be huge, B4B is the smaller of them all arguably.
Harming Sony is a consequence, “harm” is a strong word, I just want them to stop moneyhatting Japanese games, if they want some fund them or acquire some stuff.
But above all else, what I want to see is the potential these studios have with full creativity freedom and full support from MS.
Don’t mind that they are currently making multiplats as those games will be negotiated to release on gamepass. The quality of the studios are just that impressive of a get
also isnt it odd that arkham knight was supposed to leave gamepass last year but NEVER did
Yeah, but all announced games so far have platforms announced too. Doubt MS will cancel that, they’ll Honor it.
Thankfully it seems WB doesn’t have any timed deals with Sony, not that we know of.
Having TT would be good. Imagine having all Lego games on gamepass. This would certainly cover the E Rated market that Phil was talking.
possibly suggests that they were easily the largest bidder among them, EA, Take2, Activision and whoever else was joining the fray last year
Yeah that is peculiar, considerigng the older ones left.
yea