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[Friday]

@Ruthwik_Rao

they have

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Ruthwik_Rao

they have

I laughed

[AllianceOfficer]

I’m so aboard that Nordisc train you all are going on about. Xbox has so many great IP they could use. Especially their shooters.

[ProgStopper]

Curious if Nordisk really is selling, does Microsoft go piece-by-piece or by the whole thing?

MercurySteam is a fantastic studio, but without a great IP behind it, I think the talents would be wasted.

Maybe sell MercurySteam to Nintendo.

[AllianceOfficer]

@ProgStopper

Curious if Nordisk really is selling, does Microsoft go piece-by-piece or by the whole thing?

MercurySteam is a fantastic studio, but without a great IP behind it, I think the talents would be wasted.

Maybe sell MercurySteam to Nintendo.

I’m sure they’d do great with Ori

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@AllianceOfficer

I’m sure they’d do great with Ori

heresy

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@ProgStopper

Curious if Nordisk really is selling, does Microsoft go piece-by-piece or by the whole thing?

MercurySteam is a fantastic studio, but without a great IP behind it, I think the talents would be wasted.

Maybe sell MercurySteam to Nintendo.

Make a Halovania

[ProgStopper]

@javycane

Make a Halovania

it could work !!

[AllianceOfficer]

@Ruthwik_Rao

heresy

Ori is the better IP anyway

[redd_sun]

@AllianceOfficer

Ori is the better IP anyway

Xbox needs to buy moon, moon is ori.

[anon74828371]

@AllianceOfficer

Ori is the better IP anyway

I want a new Ori !!!

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@AllianceOfficer

Ori is the better IP anyway

Than what

[andrew_schmidt (HaloGaming08)]

@javycane

Make a Halovania

I’m down

[batman14]

@redd_sun

Xbox needs to buy moon, moon is ori.

I would love for them to do that but Moon doesnt want to sell as of right now

[Hindle]

Mercury making a 2D Banjo game

[Paxton]

I think Mercury is on Nintendo hands, but as Grubb said over investing and trying out, reminder that Sony and Nintendo did it for years with Bluepoint and Next Level Games. My guess is that MercurySteam will be bought if they can handle an Nintendo IP with them being only on a more supervision level as it happend with the latest Luigi’s Mansion. Maybe Microsoft decides to step faster and buy these studios before their games are released, maybe not.

And regarding Bloober and why Microsoft doesn’t buy shares, my guess is that they become target of interest where other companies in other fields look at these publicy traded devs as likely being bought by MS, it has been a very long time where you had console makers owning shares of companies who worked exclusively for them, Sony had up to 15-20% of Square Enix, Nintendo had 51% of Rare.

[ParkerPetrov]

@Paxton

…as Grubb said over investing and trying out, reminder that Sony and Nintendo did it for years with Bluepoint and Next Level Games. My guess is that MercurySteam will be bought if they can handle an Nintendo IP with them being only on a more supervision level as it happend with the latest Luigi’s Mansion. Maybe Microsoft decides to step faster and buy these studios before their games are released, maybe not. And regarding Bloober and why Microsoft doesn’t buy shares, my guess is that they become target of interest where other companies in other fields look at these publicy traded devs as likely being bought by MS, it has been a very long time where you had console makers owning shares of companies who worked exclusively for them, Sony had up to 15-20% of Square Enix, Nintendo had 51% of Rare.

MercurySteam is part of nordisk games. seems odd they would just sell off one studio. If they were going to sell you think they would do it all or nothing. But who knows.

[Callangoso]

@ParkerPetrov

MercurySteam is part of nordisk games. seems odd they would just sell off one studio. If they were going to sell you think they would do it all or nothing. But who knows.

MercurySteam isn’t part of Nordisk. They are a big shareholder(40%) but they don’t own MercurySteam.

A similar situation happened before. Nordisk owned a minority stake on Raw Fury and the company was later acquired by Altor Equity Partners.

Anyway, I don’t see Nintendo acquiring MercurySteam, but it is a possibility.

[anon74828371]

Tencent buying 22% of Bloober for $19M means that they are valuated around $80M, right ?

[ParkerPetrov]

@Callangoso

MercurySteam isn’t part of Nordisk. They are a big shareholder(40%) but they don’t own MercurySteam.

A similar situation happened before. Nordisk owned a minority stake on Raw Fury and the company was later acquired by Altor Equity Partners.

Anyway, I don’t see Nintendo acquiring MercurySteam, but it is a possibility.

that makes more sense then.