Kinda strange for Sega to make a streaming service considering that a lot of stuff they put in various subscription services - actually for all platform holders (Nintendo, Sony, Xbox).
At least it will run in Azure 
They still have to pay to exploit the HP universe. EA (and other publishers) also released games despite movies at Warner.
Amazon only paid a tiny portion of LOTR for its series. Warner Games had to pay for Middle-earth games. Same for Nacon with Gollum.
TT Games has announced that they are working on new LEGO games. So the rights are shared.
Cool, they are very good at Lego games.
just looked, number 14 with 7.3 million sales by the end of 2018. For battlefield probably not to impressive but compared to other frachises, really good
Yeah EA is a lot bigger than people care to give them credit for being with mountines of huge IP active and dormant granted sports games are their biggest thing but not much can match them in terms of popularity and longjevity in general
I dont see those studios stop working on their ips, I will love if dice made a new mirror edge, but I am sure they will continue working on battlefield, codemasters in f1 and dirt, maxis in the sims, and popcap on plants vs zombies
Sure there is a posibility but who knows
That was sakurai, afterall he said it was a nintendo broadcast so of course it would be weird if they told him to say that, I guess he just wanted to show his grattitude to xbox
Also namco worked on smash 4 and smash ultimate, who is better to make a smash style game than them?
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I mean EA has those studioās with great talent, franchises and potential
and if Nintendo didnāt want that they would of cut it
co developed but tons of studios can make a smash style game, hell tons are. Now you can debate quality but I am not incredibly optimistic in general without Sakuraiās lead but that is a personal thing
They do, but they dont have enough studios to bring back old ips, meanwhile namco can
I dont think nintendo control sakurai in that way, afterall he spended sometimes talking about other games history which werent on nintendo, like tekken
Nobody could make a platforming title like smash, thats why most developers have tried doing new things with it, just like rivals of aether or multiversus, I still think it will be a better idea for xbox to make a hero shooter game like overwatch with all their ips, or just try something different like powerstone
I might be mistaken but I believe EA actually has more studioās than Namco (I am not certain though). Regardless this is assuming MS cares much about bring back old namco series which I personally donāt think they will granted that is just an opinion
they chose the DLC for ultimate and controlled the directs editing and shit
really donāt see the massive difference between multiversus and smash (besides quality)
Either I got blind or the post about Bamco was removed?
Anyway if Bamco acquisition happens it is gonna be the least exciting acquisition I can ever imagine 
Personally I still cannot name a single franchise they own that Xbox can make exclusive. You canāt even use Bamco in the list wars 
More like some desperate move from Microsoft to gain any foothold in Japan (even SE is better)
Hope at least some studio acquisitions will happen then. Maybe some cool opportunity like with ABK appearsā¦
Maybe they do, maybe they dont, still it will be great to have developers that arent dedicated to one ip only, they could bring back xbox ips, they could make new ones like scarlet nexus
Well we gotta have to agree to disagree, sakurai and his team where the ones that make those directs, nintendo helped getting those ips the same way sakurai did
No offense to sakurai, I am a big smash fan but he isnt the only person that could make a good smash style game, people only prefer it because is the most popular one
Thats like saying that nobody could make a karting game with the quality of mario kart, only nintendo
Talesā¦
Ridge Racerā¦.
Tekkenā¦
Katamariā¦
Soulcaliburā¦
Ace Combatā¦
Enslavedā¦
PAC-MAN
Namco Museum/Classics
And then numerous licensed properties that arenāt guaranteed to not be allowed for exclusivity.
I get you donāt seem to care about them, but acting like they donāt own or donāt create anything worthwhile is insane.
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Tales is good. Losing final fantasy would hurt less.
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Yep! Plus Scarlet Nexus would be another one.
Then youāve got the external dev deals like Dark Souls and Elden Ring too.
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Thats why I try to see all the pros and cons with every publisher, xbox isnt going to get the one that most people ask for, isntead they will go for the one that makes the most sense
And namco has a huge history in the industry, so treating them like they are nothing is bad, I am more than sure that if tekken 8 ends being ps5 exclusive it will cause a ton of discussion
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To be fair a large element is simply who is open to being bought. We can all come up with what we think is the best possible stategy as much as we like - but it really comes down to seizing the opportunities that do arise.
That said, I would personally say there isnāt really any bad options of the well known publishers - except perhaps Konami and Embracer. Konami for a lack of internal development and Embracer I would argue is just not a good fit with their large number of small studios. I think Microsoftāll do great whether itās EA, Take two, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Sega or Capcom they end up with next.
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you mean like how every Activision studio is currently dedicated to CoD. Stuff could move around on either side of the fence
we can argue the directs (Nintendo censoured a game in Sakurais house in the min min presentation) but its confirmed Nintendo selected the DLC
It is all a matter of opinion but yet I donāt think we have seen a better party driving game than mario kart personally
and what MS wants, someone being up for sale is good but if MS doesnāt care about them it doesnāt do anything for their chance but this is stuff we have very little insight (granted I will remind people publicly traded companies only exist to maximise shareholder wealth and a sale can be forced as a result by a high enough offer or hostile takeover if you want to get into that area which probably wonāt happen)
I know, as much as I will want to see capcom joining the family, it is clear that they dont really need it righr now by the success of there games lately, same goes to ubisoft which would have been really cool to see returning to its golden age but after the news with tencent it I dont know if it is possible anymore
Even square enix which is the one that I dont like at all will be a good addition for the final famtasy games aswell the niche jrpgs, and konami could help xbox get closer to other developers in the region with its ips, specially kojima
Do you think he will pass a offer to work on mgs and possibly silent hill pt again? Sure xbox will also want developers to work on those ips in the acquisition, but still isnt like the ips alone arent worth it
The difference is that there is enough studios to continue the franchise, they could let the others work on their own things, meanwhile battlefield is made by dice only, sims is made by maxis only, dragon age and mass effect are made by bioware only, etc
I knew that nintendo selected the dlc, but they didnt made a script for each direct
Like you said, it comes to the opinion of every person, but several people could tell you that games like ctr has the quality of mario kart
Thatās the modus operandi for some though; no amount of data will convince some that their preferences are the most sensible from a ābusiness perspectiveā.
The sooner that type of thinking is shed, the sooner this thread returns to a place where more than a handful of users are able to have a discussion.
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