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

[Harlow (Oggier Nil)]

@Hue

…zon has Prime and Google has YouTube and GoogleTV. In order to continue competing with the giants it’s probably best not to get shoved out of certain markets, if anything it’s quite telling that they are the outlier (why did all the others see an opportunity but not MS?). With regard to your other point a Movie/TV company very much could relate to their established business (Xbox). Following on from my point on transmedia imagine if Xbox started making games on Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel etc. The games could stay in GamePass forever as MS would own the license, currently Phil has stressed that he doesn’t like making games on lincesed property as it expires! In addition the Film/TV company could start making content based on CoD, Gears, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Elder Scrolls, Fallout etc!

imagine if Crash Bandicoot was at Warner and on Cartoon Network

Crash Bandicoot Cartoon - Unused Cutscenes

[Hue]

@Harlow

imagine if Crash Bandicoot was at Warner and on Cartoon Network

Haha thanks for sharing! I do think it would be a fantastic opportunity for Xbox to expand their IP.

[PrimeTime]

MS acquires Sega, 343 and TMS Entertainment collaborate on a animated show about the Insurrection war and the last episode should be about Master Chief and the Spartans first appearance showing their true strengths on the battlefield that only the books portrays. Now that i think about it Halo could’ve been what Gundam is now smh so much wasted potential.

[GamingFirefighter]

When Gabe Newell retires from Valve could Microsoft possibly acquire them?

[DeAd3yE]

@GamingFirefighter

When Gabe Newell retires from Valve could Microsoft possibly acquire them?

I DONT think so

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos (Jorge Alexander Acosta Duarte)]

@GamingFirefighter

When Gabe Newell retires from Valve could Microsoft possibly acquire them?

Theres times STEAM is treated as a monopoly in the PC store market. Considering MS closed the Bethesda one, have their own store and who knows what they are going to do with battle.net. I seriosuly doubt regulators are going to let them acquire a 4th one and the biggest one in the PC space.

[GamingFirefighter]

@Jorge_Alexander_Acos

Theres times STEAM is treated as a monopoly in the PC store market. Considering MS closed the Bethesda one, have their own store and who knows what they are going to do with battle.net. I seriosuly doubt regulators are going to let them acquire a 4th one and the biggest one in the PC space.

I can understand Steam raising monopoly concerns but if Microsoft were to do a divestiture of Steam and acquire the rest of Valve maybe that would work.

Valve just seems like the perfect oppuertinty to allow Microsoft a better opportunity in the VR and modding department. And Microsoft could use the hardware engineers across Valve to build their own portable handheld Xbox console.

[DeAd3yE]

@GamingFirefighter

I can understand Steam raising monopoly concerns but if Microsoft were to do a divestiture of Steam and acquire the rest of Valve maybe that would work.

Valve just seems like the perfect oppuertinty to allow Microsoft a better opportunity in the VR and modding department. And Microsoft could use the hardware engineers across Valve to build their own portable handheld Xbox console.

good thought but wont happen

[GamingFirefighter]

@DeAd3yE

good thought but wont happen

Well yeah. Not anytime soon but in 10-15 years from now I could see it being the case.

[DeAd3yE]

@GamingFirefighter

Well yeah. Not anytime soon but in 10-15 years from now I could see it being the case.

by that time many thing would be changed

[nrXic]

@GamingFirefighter

Valve just seems like the perfect oppuertinty to allow Microsoft a better opportunity in the VR and modding department. And Microsoft could use the hardware engineers across Valve to build their own portable handheld Xbox console.

Definitely, but it could also be argued that MS has a lot of this as well with their AR tech, HoloLens, and their portable hardware, Surface. They would just need to poach some of Valve’s staff to get mostly there.

Ironically I think the one thing that Microsoft really needs is something comparable to Steam, something they cannot acquire. If there is any obstacle for PC Gamepass to take off with the 1.8 billion PC gamers out there, it’s Microsoft’s own store.

[pg2g]

Steam is the only reason anyone would want to buy Valve

[Hue]

@pg2g

Steam is the only reason anyone would want to buy Valve

I could see some insanely rich person buying it just for Half-life 3

Microsoft really do need to make a better PC storefront though! Maybe they will do something with Battle.net?

[CryOn]

@pg2g

Steam is the only reason anyone would want to buy Valve

DotA and CSGO make insane among of money. Every year you see the pricepool of TI and you think the community is insane. You have successful YouTuber and Streamer who mainly open CSGO cases.

They even analyze the skin pattern of skins. Depending on the float value it could be worth thousands of dollars. The CSGO skin market is the dream of every NFT user.

Besides that both games are very popular and are still growing. CS2 is in beta and should release this year.

[TheLegendaryGamer]

MS buying Steam and keeping everything the same/hands off approach. I can see it happen.

Basically MS will just collect revenue from Steam and let Steam runs itself, AKA the Mojang Minecraft approach.

[Thickchunkypoop (Poop)]

@TheLegendaryGamer

MS buying Steam and keeping everything the same/hands off approach. I can see it happen.

Basically MS will just collect revenue from Steam and let Steam runs itself, AKA the Mojang Minecraft approach.

Valve and steam would be blocked, even with remedies.

[AllianceOfficer]

I would much prefer that Microsoft buys publishers that will deliver a lot of contents and are not primarily a store.

Id love to see them buy more independent studios that have shown consistency in releasing great, unique games and just better fund their games and give them the time they need to make dream games.

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@AllianceOfficer

I would much prefer that Microsoft buys publishers that will deliver a lot of contents and are not primarily a store.

Id love to see them buy more independent studios that have shown consistency in releasing great, unique games and just better fund their games and give them the time they need to make dream games.

Valve has an incredible relationship with Xbox and unless there were some serious divesture of Steam and other components, which is the entire reason Valve would be valuable, it would be a regulatory nightmare (did just the focus on CoD not give those people enough evidence of that fact(?)).

I’ve long said Valve wasn’t up for consideration, and clearly Xbox thought the same so…

[Shadowgasm]

I don’t often feel supremely confident in my opinions, but regulators unanimously blocking an attempt from MS to acquire Valve would be one of them. I just cannot see a scenario where MS is allowed to buy the biggest, by a mile, storefront on the PC which just so happens to be on Microsoft’s own platform.

And as Knottian just alluded to, any possible remedies MS could make to somehow get the deal across the finish line would negate the entire reason for wanting them in the first place.

MS acquiring Valve would be like MS acquiring Nintendo if Playstation didn’t exist.

[Hue]

People seem to forget Gabe Newell is 60 now, how much longer is he realistically going to work? Once Gabe leaves I suspect Valve will go through a radical change.