Xbox Acquisition |OT6| If this is about competition, let us have competition

[Hue]

@Madumbrella

I will love to see activision returning to make transformers games, they where fun

Also hasbro owns peppa? I though the ip was owned by some russian company

I think you may be referring to the Russian copycat which was sued by Hasbro? Prior to Hasbro it was owned by a Canadian company.

[Hue]

@AllianceOfficer

I think an underrated publisher that would create a number of synergies for Microsoft Gaming and expand their product portfolio is Hasbro. Start to expand their gaming IP into what Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro does best. It also brings the Transformers IP in house for Activision to work on. They also have massive family friendly IP that appeal like Peppa Pig.

Theyd be an interesting studio to add in conjunction with Jackbox Studios.

I think a Rom game would be awesome (which Hasbro own)!

I’m not sure if they would acquire Hasbro unless they also wanted to get into TV/Movie and Toys tbh. They are similar to Bandai Namco in many ways.

[Madumbrella (Mad)]

@Hue

I think you may be referring to the Russian copycat which was sued by Hasbro? Prior to Hasbro it was owned by a Canadian company.

Wait really? I dont know why I always though that the show was made in russia

[Madumbrella (Mad)]

Just like asobo, certain affinity is a must for xbox

Halo Infinite API Updates

[Knottian (Daniel)]

Modified the title to be more accurate to the statement made

[Hue]

@Knottian

Modified the title to be more accurate to the statement made

[Deus (Encyclopaedia Ludica)]

Dreamt that Certain Affinity was bought by Tencent because MS was still dealing with ABK.

Not happening folks.

[howlingmosquito (mosquito)]

Satya

[Cayde4Ever (Cayde)]

@Deus

Dreamt that Certain Affinity was bought by Tencent because MS was still dealing with ABK.

Not happening folks.

That picture makes me sad

[Boosted_Gear]

Giant Bombcast 756: Emulation Hose

Apparently Imran Khan said he heard about talks of acquisitions between MS and major Japanese publishers, as well as smaller studios, but obviously he doesn’t know where these talks are right now.

[Deus (Encyclopaedia Ludica)]

@Boosted_Gear

Apparently Imran Khan said he heard about talks of acquisitions between MS and major Japanese publishers, as well as smaller studios, but obviously he doesn’t know where these talks are right now.

[Cayde4Ever (Cayde)]

@Boosted_Gear

Apparently Imran Khan said he heard about talks of acquisitions between MS and major Japanese publishers, as well as smaller studios, but obviously he doesn’t know where these talks are right now.

An Xbox acquisition

[NierlyCrazy (Alex)]

@Boosted_Gear

Apparently Imran Khan said he heard about talks of acquisitions between MS and major Japanese publishers, as well as smaller studios, but obviously he doesn’t know where these talks are right now.

I mean, Brad Sams essentially confirmed they were talking with Platinum at some point. I’m sure most of us aren’t surprised here. I’ll have to listen to the podcast though. Thanks for sharing bro!

@Deus

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I like your taste in memes.

[BigM_Milk4 (Big m milk)]

The sega sammy shareholders when Phil drops the bag

[OD62]

Let’s dream a little… If Microsoft really wants to expand massively in Japan and is legally able to buy 2 Japanese publishers:

• SEGA
• Capcom
• Platinum games
• CyberConnect2
• Arc System Works

[howlingmosquito (mosquito)]

Sega and Capcom are the best choices. They are well run with a variety of titles and monopolise the 80s arcades.

[TheBrightestSun]

@howlingmosquito

Sega and Capcom are the best choices. They are well run with a variety of titles and monopolise the 80s arcades.

Yeah, I agree. But I don’t see Sega happening and Capcom is a question mark. But they are cheap (and market caps are tanking heavily). Just look at it

• Sega - 2.9b
• Capcom - 5.3b
• Bandai Namco - 14.3b
• Square Enix - 5b

Certain publishers (worldwide) are just crazy cheap these days. If we look at other cheap publishers

• Paradox - 1.5b
• Ubisoft - 3.6b
• CDPR - 2.1b

And they haven’t reached the bottom yet.

[KakkaKarrotKake]

@Harlow

…y games, like Flight Simulator. It exemplifies, at least for me, what uniquely we can do by bringing together the power of all of Microsoft tech stack, right, from Azure AI to Bing maps, and even spatial computing, which came together to create essentially literally a digital twin of the entire planet. And as you know, Phil, we’re also seeing tremendous traction when it comes to game development on Azure with companies like Pearl Abyss scaling their gaming, using the power of our cloud. And of course, game development doesn’t stop when the game is launched. In fact, one of the things we have learned from all of the work you all have done is in some sense, it starts after the game is launched because you want to be able to experiment, learn through analytics and continuously change gameplay.

I have no idea what I just watched lol but it looked very ambitious, I can see it being a massive hit

As for acquisitions, I’m really not sure MS would be allowed another one of the major publishers in the west like EA or T2 and personally I hope that’s the case, they have no need for another western publisher

Phil pretty much said it himself, they are extremely well positioned in the west now, time to look elsewhere where they don’t have teams

[JDBsw67 (J.D.)]

@OD62

Let’s dream a little… If Microsoft really wants to expand massively in Japan and is legally able to buy 2 Japanese publishers:

• SEGA
• Capcom
• Platinum games
• CyberConnect2
• Arc System Works

Just curious why not Koei Tecmo for Team Ninja and bring Ninja Gaiden back home along with a few more.

[Charga]

Capcom would be such a crazy acquisition, the question of course remains is if they want to get bought. Koei Tecmo seems extremely likely that they would be willing to sell and I wouldn’t be surprised if MS acquired them.