I know a lot of people there I live not far from Bordeaux and they want to remain independent they have signed several contracts with Microsoft for HoloLens and 10 years of Microsoft Flight Simulator monitoring so I can assure you that before 2030 nobody will acquire Asobo Studio
The idea of Take 2 selling to Xbox doesn’t make sense from the point of view of its share holder and member of boards
It is not a struggling publisher. And it’s success is probably guaranteed. So why sell to microsoft when they can reap profit for themselves
It’s good for Microsoft I can understand… But why for take 2?
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Last year there were rumour about Tencent: if the chinese are interested, clearly MS should act defensively, moreover with a media company so big, many red flags at Washington would be raised, people already didn’t like chinese investments in Hollywood…
It all comes down to the offer. That stuff just means you’re paying a premium.
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For Gamepass I don’t think it’s content has to be full AAA all round. I would love to see them get rights to a heap of retro games like Daytona, Sega Rally, Sonic and alot of arcade classics like 1942 etc. It would be dirt cheap to get the rights to those games yet they are great just to pick up and play. If you look at Netflix and co, they are going for those old classic shows as much as they are new content. I assume they could get maybe 20 old school games like Daytona, Sega Rally etc for the cost of one new game like The Medium or The MBL show. I would get a ton more fun out of those old arcade games.
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I actually think Microsoft should buy a studio that can juat work on remakes and making games from existing yet not used for a while IPs. Kinda like Sony did with Bluepoint. There is a ton of dormant IPs that they could work on.
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didn’t Rod Ferguson join the last 10 months to assemble and fix whatever was done with Infinite? That was an excellent job btw.
No. He’s at Activision Blizzard since February 2020 and overseeing Diablo.
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Bioshock infinite not Halo lol.
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Back in 2012 I mean, Bioshock Infinite development was a disaster and the game was vastly different from the E3 2010 and 2011 showings, Rod joined the final phase of development to assemble whatever they had done into a coherent game.
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Yeah, he came in late to wrap it up. It’s my least liked Bioshock, but considering the problems during development he did pretty good I would say.
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Yes the articles I was quoting also make mention that several employees believed the game never would have shipped without him coming inboard.
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I don’t have time today to give a lesson on valuation. (I have done that before, so maybe anyone who is interested can search my old posts.)
However, I just want to point out the the quantity of games produced/published/etc is not the sole (or even main) driver of valuation. If that was the case then Roblox would not be worth $60+ billion nor would Minecraft be worth $40+billion.
With that said, I personally agree that Microsoft’s money would be better spent elsewhere than on Take Two.
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If they are considering Take 2 for 30 billion, why not just consider EA or Nintendo. I know they were initially laughed at by both, but times have changed.
I know Nintendo would be a big stretch because the relationship is entirely there.
EA though, they have strong IP, casual games, a strong mobile presence. Sounds like what Xbox wants. Plants vs Zombies on mobile is massive and can help their engagement and reach to more gamers.
I’ve actually been thinking about Monoloth Productions…
So let’s say Microsoft acquires WB (or at the very least Monolith). If Microsoft is not able to make an agreement with the Tolkien Estate (tbh, I find this hard to believe) I could totally see them building a brand new fantasy world IP or possibly making a deal with Disney for Eragon or Narnia.
Heck, maybe a Cyberpunk/Shadowrun-like game?
Man, I’m really curious who Microsoft is talking too right now.
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I hope Xbox stays as far as possible away from the IP’s Narnia and Eragon. If they can’t get a popular IP, try to create something new and exiting. Not even Disney is touching them anymore, so why would MS?
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If they did that and wanted to license an existing IP, maybe they could work with Sega and revive one of their great dead RPG series
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Eragon came with Fox, so might be too soon to judge on that front. Plus the author has been really pushing for Disney to startup a show or something.
Would make sense to strike when the iron is hot (if something is in the works).
Just trying to think of licenses that would make sense with Mordor’s current formula.
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Ah dammit, now i really wanna reread the inheritance cycle for the 5th time, lmao
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New rumors, who dis?
