Xbox Acquisition |OT4| It's Acquisition Season for Xbox with $69 Billion deal, NICE!

[DARK-PARADISE]

@Butters

He isn’t exactly best friends with Microsoft.

Yes he is

[Roronoa_Zoro90]

@Butters

Don’t know if Tim Epic would agree with that tbh. He isn’t exactly best friends with Microsoft.

He is when it’s convenient for him, he is not the most consistent person of Earth, lmao. Anyway a console exclusive would not be good for his hope to get XGS/Zenimax games (which are a big deal) on EGS. XD

[Paxton]

@AllianceOfficer

This take on take 2 is wild. It takes time to make big games and GTA7 is certainly one of them. Anything that’s come out is a rumor.

They’ve been putting out very solid content recently with RDR2. Firaxis is also phenomenal studio. They also have put out solid civilization games. They’re working on a brand new Bioshock. They put of a great title in mafia 3 and likely have mafia 4 on the way.

On top of all of that, they are publishing games left and right, they have something like 90 games they’re publishing over the next 5 years.

RDR2 Online is very criticized, and Rockstar North has entirely creeped the whole division, no more spin offs, Midnight Club, Bully, Manhunt, Max Payne, Smuggler’s Run, Agent or another original IP because all studios are now serving solely for one game at the time. The very variety that Microsoft would want.

Mafia 3 was a mess, Mafia DE is great and a better deal compared to GTA DE, but Hangar 13 got hit by a cancelled game a week ago.

And regarding the titles, I think most of them will come from Private Division, which means most of these games aren’t even owned by them, when Double Fine was acquired the publishing division was shut down because there was no more space there and only published the remaining games, I think Samurai Gunn 2 ended up switching publishers.

@ChuckeRearmed

I would like to remind that Bethesda’s quality issues were legendary.

They were still unfolding, while Take Two case it is reaching the worst levels.

[Friday]

@Paxton

RDR2 Online is very criticized, and Rockstar North has entirely creeped the whole division, no more spin offs, Midnight Club, Bully, Manhunt, Max Payne, Smuggler’s Run, Agent or another original IP because all studios are now serving solely for one game at the time. The very variety that Microsoft would want.

Mafia 3 was a mess, Mafia DE is great and a better deal compared to GTA DE, but Hangar 13 got hit by a cancelled game a week ago.

And regarding the titles, I think most of them will come from Private Division, which means most of these games aren’t even owned by them, when Double Fine was acquired the publishing division was shut down because there was no more space there and only published the remaining games, I think Samurai Gunn 2 ended up switching publishers.

Looks like they need MS resources for the polish .

[redd_sun]

Its friday before big celebrating monday, and i’m thinkin…how long this thread going to sustain itself till next acquisition. They keep teasing about acquisitions,so who knows what really is happening, i doubt it be take2 it has to fit feel like family. There is only one so annointed Asobo. My bet is on tthem.

[Roronoa_Zoro90]

@redd_sun

Its friday before big celebrating monday, and i’m thinkin…how long this thread going to sustain itself till next acquisition. They keep teasing about acquisitions,so who knows what really is happening, i doubt it be take2 it has to fit feel like family. There is only one so annointed Asobo. My bet is on tthem.

Yeah, I agree they should stop teasing/speaking about acquisitions if they are not close, it only causes controversies among the community. On the other hand I understand they do it to generate excitement.

[AllianceOfficer]

There’s always a lot of discussion about publishers and which would have the biggest impacts. Here’s my publisher rankings based on impact to Xbox:

1. Nintendo
2. Sony
3. EA
4. Embracer
5. Take Two
6. Valve (with steam)
7. Square
8. Sega
9. Capcom
10. WB
11. Activision/Blizzard
12. Ubisoft
13. Bandai
14. Valve (without steam)
15. Focus Home
16. Paradox Interactive
17. Koei Tecmo
18. Nexon
19. Necon
20. Konami
21. Thunderful
22. Annapurna Interactive

[KirthGersen]

So XboxEra acquired Xbox? Or maybe we’re getting a Phil interview by our mods

Celebrating Twenty Years of Xbox - XboxEra

[Tpieman2029]

@AllianceOfficer

There’s always a lot of discussion about publishers and which would have the biggest impacts. Here’s my publisher rankings based on impact to Xbox:

1. Nintendo
2. Sony
3. EA
4. Embracer
5. Take Two
6. Valve (with steam)
7. Square
8. Sega
9. Capcom
10. WB
11. Activision/Blizzard
12. Ubisoft
13. Bandai
14. Valve (without steam)
15. Focus Home
16. Paradox Interactive
17. Koei Tecmo
18. Nexon
19. Necon
20. Konami
21. Thunderful
22. Annapurna Interactive

Embracer over valve? Bold

[redd_sun]

@KirthGersen

So XboxEra acquired Xbox? Or maybe we’re getting a Phil interview by our mods

probrably phil or aaron or maj nelson or sarah or mat but phil be awesome hope they read out thread out here…hey phil if your not goingbto buy se get us please on xbox ff14, ff7remake,ff16, and dq12

[KirthGersen]

@redd_sun

probrably phil or aaron or maj nelson or sarah or mat but phil be awesome hope they read out thread out here…hey phil if your not goingbto buy se get us please on xbox ff14, ff7remake,ff16, and dq12

Hey Phil just buy Sega already! Sarah, are you reading this? Acquire Sega! You have BIG MONEY!!

[NierlyCrazy]

@redd_sun

Its friday before big celebrating monday, and i’m thinkin…how long this thread going to sustain itself till next acquisition. They keep teasing about acquisitions,so who knows what really is happening, i doubt it be take2 it has to fit feel like family. There is only one so annointed Asobo. My bet is on tthem.

If we’re going by “family”, the closest studios would be:

• Asobo

• Bungie

• Moon

Other ones that are “on the cusp” of family I’d argue are:

• Avalanche Studios Group

• Studio MDHR

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Failwood

Warner without IP’s is still worth it. Studios like Netherrealm, TT games and Rocksteady are hella talented, so I would love to see them not weighted down with IP’s that have been overdone to hell.

Yeah certainly worth a couple billions less with much more risk involved.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@AllianceOfficer

There’s always a lot of discussion about publishers and which would have the biggest impacts. Here’s my publisher rankings based on impact to Xbox:

1. Nintendo
2. Sony
3. EA
4. Embracer
5. Take Two
6. Valve (with steam)
7. Square
8. Sega
9. Capcom
10. WB
11. Activision/Blizzard
12. Ubisoft
13. Bandai
14. Valve (without steam)
15. Focus Home
16. Paradox Interactive
17. Koei Tecmo
18. Nexon
19. Necon
20. Konami
21. Thunderful
22. Annapurna Interactive

Ubisoft off IP’s alone and games (irrelevant of how people feel about them) is above 95% of the list.

[Shakez]

@AllianceOfficer

There’s always a lot of discussion about publishers and which would have the biggest impacts. Here’s my publisher rankings based on impact to Xbox:

1. Nintendo
2. Sony
3. EA
4. Embracer
5. Take Two
6. Valve (with steam)
7. Square
8. Sega
9. Capcom
10. WB
11. Activision/Blizzard
12. Ubisoft
13. Bandai
14. Valve (without steam)
15. Focus Home
16. Paradox Interactive
17. Koei Tecmo
18. Nexon
19. Necon
20. Konami
21. Thunderful
22. Annapurna Interactive

Capcom lower than Square… I expected more from you…

[Friday]

@AllianceOfficer

There’s always a lot of discussion about publishers and which would have the biggest impacts. Here’s my publisher rankings based on impact to Xbox:

1. Nintendo
2. Sony
3. EA
4. Embracer
5. Take Two
6. Valve (with steam)
7. Square
8. Sega
9. Capcom
10. WB
11. Activision/Blizzard
12. Ubisoft
13. Bandai
14. Valve (without steam)
15. Focus Home
16. Paradox Interactive
17. Koei Tecmo
18. Nexon
19. Necon
20. Konami
21. Thunderful
22. Annapurna Interactive

Put Embrace at 13 and is WB with licenses or without ?

[AllianceOfficer]

@Friday

Put Embrace at 13 and is WB with licenses or without ?

WB with licenses. Embracer is so high because of the pure amount of games that they would enable Xbox to make and the amount of growth Xbox could sustain through them. They also would drive extremely high value in the mobile space for Xbox and position them extremely well for the future.

[Friday]

@AllianceOfficer

WB with licenses. Embracer is so high because of the pure amount of games that they would enable Xbox to make and the amount of growth Xbox could sustain through them. They also would drive extremely high value in the mobile space for Xbox and position them extremely well for the future.

WB with licenses should be at 7 then .

[redd_sun]

@AllianceOfficer

WB with licenses. Embracer is so high because of the pure amount of games that they would enable Xbox to make and the amount of growth Xbox could sustain through them. They also would drive extremely high value in the mobile space for Xbox and position them extremely well for the future.

i don’t see embacer my list be like not in pref order, asobo, se, bandai namco,sega, koeii tepco,kojima, from, capcom, jpgames, pearl abyss,io,ubisoft, wb interactive,bungie, yellow brick games,casey hudson’s studio, bioware, valve…also cd red keeps poping up i know they close to bethesda…just maybe. I know people are hating on them, don’t rule them out they make award winning games accept forftheir last they will make a comeback. I,want to say ea but they like take2 and even ubisoft, i think wantmultiplat and independence and Microsoft doesnt loose to ps. Thats the thing these big companies. Have relationships with nintendo and ps to, they like being multiplat so list to choose from really small.for phil.and gang

[BlackheartVinyl]

If they bought Embracer, they could release a game everyday!