If Sony is really making another Street Fighter stunt, MK is bigger, it would be the perfect way to revitalize the genre on Xbox.
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licenses are not expensive btw. Surely an acquisition would give them 100x cash immediately than licenses over a period of 10 years.
The value in WB to me is in the licensing. Lots of billions of difference in between included or not included lol.
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Get that nether realm second team going with a killer instinct revival 
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Ms wouldn have to deal with Lego licensing too as WB don’t own Lego.
Microsoft already works on licensed IP’s to certain degrees and who cares if they dont own the full rights to a green lantern game or a flash game if it brings 15m people to game pass.
Yeah, one team working on MK and the other on Killer Instinct. It would be amazing.
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Just let it be WB with a licensing deal just to see what good old Hindle would say PLEASE.
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Or change the current one to Mk vs killer instinct but it’ll be played like killer instinct
MK is big, but GTA is humongous. TES is also big but as there wasn’t any game for a long time, I think it is kinda declined while GTA is constantly on top in the charts beside Fifa and CoD and Fortnite lol
Indiana Jones aside, what licensed games MS is making?
Why do people want NR on KI? Consistently have read over the past years how they would be a terrible fit for the series.
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third or fourth team, if Ed Boon gets what he wants. He wants to continue with MK, Injustice, a Marvel fighting game, and I think he mentioned somewhere that he wants to do an arpg/action-adventure game too.
Dude, I’ve gotta be one of the pre-eminent supporters of a WB acquisition. I think those are four high-quality AAA studios, and my personal belief is that Game Pass will live-and-die based on putting out AAA games on Day 1 as part of their service.
Acquiring those four studios essentially serve to add one additional Day 1 AAA title to Game Pass for 4-of-5 years into perpetuity (assuming 5-year dev cycles, which seems increasingly standard in the AAA space). That’s a huge deal.
My point about the super hero stuff was simply that I don’t think MS has to “respond” to these Sony Marvel licenses. Xbox just needs to focus on making the best games it can.
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Microsoft already works with Lego, Hot wheels, Pirates of the Caribbean and others inside of their own IP’s.
Has anything happened?
They should make MK vs All Xbox Franchises. It would be amazing to see Doom Slayer vs Master Chief or Scorpion kicking Banjo’s ass lol.
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If there is one studio that would turn alot of heads , that would be Nether Realm for sure. Seems like Ed has a liking for killer instinct as well
You obviously missed the crabcakes…
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If MS purchased WB Games, do you think they would give them creative freedom (like every other studio) or would they be forced to work on DC licenses.
Would be low key hilarious if they bought them and they chose to no longer work on superhero games.
Those are collaborations and not the licensed IPs in a sense where studio dedicate years of development to make the game the rights to which they don’t even own.
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