IP acquisitions are still acquisitions so yes i imagine. Ah Alpha Protocol. I remember that game and I would like to see an espionage type story in the realm of that from Obsidian.
Would be cool to see it with the technology in these consoles and PC’s fully utilised.
It is owned by Sega right?
That’s correct, SEGA had to stop selling it though because of the music rights to the game
When i saw the article about xbox needing mobile game devs, i do hot think so. If xbox had wanted to do that, they would not of gone the route they did, this way gives them console games. Otherwise gamepass would not of been a play anywhere etc.
and in fact they allied with tencent to bring Age Of Empires to mobiles so I doubt they will think of buying studies for the mobile market at least in the short and medium term
What would be the most realistic acquisition?
Lunch
Nothing is out of question except platform holders.
Well if we look at the graph in this post about where the customers are, it’s pretty clear the priority should be in mobile games. That’s where the majority of their growth will come from and it’s always better to start sooner rather than later.
They have much to grow on the console/pc market still to just shift priority to mobile.
They shouldn’t divide attention and I’m sure they won’t, mobile focus will come WAY later.
Why do people assume a 2 trillion dollar company is only capable of pursuing one thing at a time? I think it’s safe to say MS is currently pursuing solutions to all of the perceived “holes” in their gaming portfolio as well as several that aren’t.
Because Xbox itself isn’t MS whole, they can only focus their efforts on so many things before being spread too thin for management and planning.
Focus on console/PC should be imperative until they can handily feel safe and trusted in it. Otherwise they’ll just try everything and not be great at anything.
Also, mobile doesn’t really need to have their onw games right now when Xcloud and touch controls are doing wonders for it.
Because xbox is one segment that still needs to grow in its core market and diverting resources to shift to mobile is not a good idea? Idk something around that.
Xbox just bought a major publisher with its own management chain and has continued to hire M&A people. I think they have more than enough resources to multi-task.
They bought Nuance recently. They will be fine.
They have the money, they’d still have to build core mobile management from the ground up, their whole structure right now already supports the publisher they bought.
With Bethesda, they were just adding something that was already their goal from the beginning.
I’m not against mobile, it’s just that there are more pressing matters right now.
A mobile studio to make touch controls or fix text on first-party games would be cool but a publisher or mobile development studio Nah.
I think they are already able to add touch controls to the gamepass anyway. BTW does Hades is on Cloud too?
Yeah and with touch controls
When you have the CEO of MS saying they’re fully into gaming, I would expect that mean almost all the resources they need are there ready for them to use. The fact Satya keeps saying this means they’re into gaming and want it do be a big part of MS, Phil will be telling Satya what he needs and what he thinks is the #1 goal.
Xbox buying studios, whether it be mobile, PC or console has really nothing to do with spreading Xbox thin. Xbox and Microsoft have teams dedicated to acquisitions, in fact I’m pretty sure last year or so they were hiring a few people to expand the M&A team. Microsoft has their own lawyers and M&A team that Xbox would be able to tap into, with Xbox having their own too.
MS could easily tackle multiple targets at once with ease, I highly doubt they could only work on a SEGA deal and be all tied up. They would be literally talking to almost everyone and I wouldn’t be shocked if studios are knocking on Microsofts door saying hey you can buy us.
MS/Xbox isn’t some small indie company that has 500 people working there, they probably have enough lawyers and M&A staff to make a few AAA studios 