All three are great choices.
Being first party would also allow Falcom, Vanillaware and NIS to grow their companies too.
Umm, I’m pretty sure he was joking. “Expert in Japanese culture” is literally from that funny Neogaf rant from when FFXIII was ported to 360.
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We’ve already been over this. Others that have regurgitated a type of gatekeeping argument have not been joking.
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Yeah, if they finally start working on a single project only and fix their internal matter - they would be fine. Though they again feel like a single person studio basically. Also they seem to work better if the plot is written by other guys.
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I’d like more “aptly ready” studios or publishers to be bought rather than some who needs more work from the inside, but beggars can’t be choosers…
I am not sure if Microsoft is a beggar. Especially after ATVI.
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Now I don’t think we need CDPR, however have you played those old Fable games? Unless MS is going to fundamentally shift what Fable is, then it’s not a 1 to 1 comparison between Witcher and Fable.
There’s many arguments to be made against CDPR mainly their price and also their work culture and the fact that they run a DRM free store… but this argument of yours is just SOO not it, I’m sorry.
I played and my favourite one is Fable 1. We already know that Fable is gonna have some open world so I think it won’t be far away from whatever CDPR makes. A lot of people love specific studios too much.
I wouldn’t wish the assimilation and decimation of an entire studio upon anyone. That would be horrible as Amazon doesn’t acquire they assimilate. Double Helix doesn’t exist anymore as it was assimilated into Amazon Game Studios Platinium would be the same way.
Amazon Game Studios is like Borg from star trek. We are One. Everything unique and special about platinum would be stripped away and you would just get a sterile game that twitch streamers are paid to play to boost numbers and then be dead in 2 to 3 months.
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Oh wow, that is the kind of thing I was hoping to see from Tango. Distinctly Japanese stuff (not knocking The Evil Within, they’re great games). I wonder if someday, Tango could actually handle making a JRPG in a style similar to this? (obviously with a much higher budget of course)
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But seriously, I hope that shuts those people up over at Gematsu comments (it won’t 
) who say “Microsoft would never allow Platinum Games to make Bayonetta under an acquisition!”
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We are the beggars lol.
Exactly. You get my point entirely.
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I wonder if Amazon might acquire something in Korea. Like Nexon or Pearl Abyss, considering their desire to make MMOs.
Facebook isn’t much better. They bought Ready at Dawn and the company hasn’t been the same since.
For all of its faults, The Order: 1886 still looks good today and it is sad to see all they do now is Oculus games.
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Im not sure CDPR would even want to join PS when its possible to wait for the bigger companies be it MS, or Amszon etc
Bigger doesn’t really matter, it only depends on who is willing to spend the money and as we saw with Bungie - Microsoft isn’t just going to spend money just because the opportunity arises.
I think being independent is what made Microsoft pull out of the talks.
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Sure, but that’s my point. Bungie was a pretty high price at 3.6billion when they retain indepedence and their IPs. It wasn’t worth it to Microsoft but it was worth that money to Sony to secure a major FPS dev with GaaS experience (and it doesn’t hurt that they want to expand to other mediums that Sony can cover). It wasn’t about a bigger company just waltzing in and offering more money. It’ll be the same if CDPR is looking to sell - Microsoft and Sony aren’t just going to try and outbid each other arbitrarily they both could just see different value in the company.