When they will target T2 ? Microsoft waiting for T2 stocks to do down?
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Come on, Nintendo would never be allowed and cause a shitstorm. MS wouldnt even try.
2024 or 2025.
With them acquiring Zynga it may be a while 
, as much as I’m not bothered with GTA when they eventually announce the next one it will be huge.
I know nobody could have predicted ABK but for anyone to think Xbox will get EA or T2 in addition is going to be near impossible.
With M&A’s we know that it’s not necessarily about market share but about creating an unfair advantage which it would.
I still think it’s possible for Xbox to get some smaller publishers with Ubisoft/Square being the biggest around that 5B market cap (considering it will likely go for closer to that 8-9B price point).
Everything will be multiplatform, GTA etc. It will be the same as ABK. The FCC are not as problematic as you think.
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I’ll make my wink emoji bigger next time!
I’m sure they would try again if they could (they can’t), as we already know they tried to get them years ago.
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It comes down to MS major competition buying Take 2 or EA and thus having a serious foothold in the industry to rival XGP.
MS cant allow it as its detrimental to thier aims
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Microsoft cannot go after each and every publisher
I stick to the opinion that one of the japanese publishers - Sega / Capcom / Square Enix - will be the next acquisition. And also WB maybe (or NR at least).
They wont, just Take Two thats it. Maybe EA once the dust has settled.
I cant see them ever getting a Japanese publisher.
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Just saying the games will be multi-platform won’t be necessarily enough, especially when your also pricing the competition out by having a cheap subscription service with all that content included (which they can’t offer). That would be pretty much the definition of antitrust.
Even then it’s not just the FTC/DOJ.
These larger publishers have locations all over the globe, even if they could get another big publisher like EA/T2 past them after ABK (which I feel is very unlikely), you then have the regulators from any other relevant territory for example UK, Europe and Asia.
China recently cracked down on Tencent merging Huya and DouYu.
Also if I am not mistaken it wasnt just the US regulators which blocked the recent Nvidia Arm deal, it was regulators in the UK, US, Europe and China!
EA makes no sense for them, T2 could be an interesting case but stuff like NBA and rumored Lego games are third party licenses, and that GTA (online and 6th is probably a platform game) is highly likely to be “available” on other platforms I am not sure if they worth to Microsoft that much. How many games do they have in pipeline that can become exclusive?
The games will be on every single ecosystem known to man just like Minecraft is. MS want to make money from everywhere, not destroy any competition.
Why people bring ARM deal though? It was a completely different case.
Nah, you have to prove that somebody is being priced out and it is difficult to do. There is no problem in offering a superior service. EA Play Pro costs the same amount of money as Game Pass Ultimate, same with Ubisoft+. But it is hard to argue that EA Play Pro and Ubisoft+ have a fair pricing or not. Same with Spartacus. You can easily say that EA and Ubisoft and Sony (especially after GT7) are just being greedy.
Some games will stay available (like released ones or some remakes), but new games will be exclusive.
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MS would release the likes of COD or GTA, Apex on any rival subscription service as they want to make serious $$$$.
The FCC I doubt care about the games industry either.
The funny thing is the next purchase will probably end up being “something” nobody expects or has speculated about much.
Ok let’s phrase it a different way…
A regulator is looking at if (using your example) T2 should go through and MS agrees to keep all the games multi-platform.
One supplier can now offer Call of Duty, Overwatch, Forza, GTA, Red Dead, WWE, NBA, PGA, Doom, Wolfenstein, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Minecraft, Gears, Halo, World of Warcraft etc etc for $14.99
On the competition’s platform you can still get them for $70 each (where they are not exclusive) and they can’t be offered in a cheap subscription service like Xbox, even though before they potentially could have been.
You still can’t see the issue a regulator might have with that?
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I was using it as an example that it’s not just the FTC/DOJ that reviews these big mergers.
As I stated above the UK, Europe and China also blocked that merger which could be the same for a big publisher considering EA/T2 also have locations across the UK/Europe and Asia.
Ya … Arm deal was equivalent to acquiring all of xbox, PS and Nintendo
The competition’s platform can still have everything you listed, its just they choose not to as they dont want to work with MS. In this instance its the fault of Sony.
No, because there are millions of people, who generate billions of profits for the companies and haven’t played a single game from the list. Candy Crush generates more money that most of the games in the list (even combined) while being available only on mobile. Gaming is so so big. Genshin Impact generates billions without being available on a subscription service and even Xbox.
The gaming is huge, subscription services is not the only way to consume the games and a new F2P game that is available everywhere can pop up any moment.
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