Smite is on the cusp of genuinely being huge, but disgustingly bad servers and constant bugs from the spaghetti code hold it back. More resources would be extraordinarily huge for them.
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Tribes was so fucking good back in the day 
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I’m with you on Sega. I’ve played every Sega console since the master system. They bring legacy and heritage in gaming internationally for Xbox. It would be a huge brand statement globally if acquired.
And that’s said with me always hating Sonic games. I think they all suck. Always have. I like the Sonic character tho.
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Is it a lot though for a child friendly game that came out on a multitude of platforms? (assuming you are talking about 2010 year game). Or you mean on a yearly basis ?
I mean you have blizzard now. Wouldn’t it be best to just make Heroes of the Storm relevant? Or start over with a new MOBA.
To me it looks like Sonic is up there with the top of the top.
Only the following 15 Sony games have sold more than Sonic Colors (according to Best selling Sony games | Video Game Sales Wiki | Fandom )
- The Last of Us & The Last of Us Remastered (24.0 million) [2]
- Marvel’s Spider-Man(PS4) (20.00 million)
- Uncharted 4 (16 million)[2]
- God of War (PS4) - 20 million[2]
- Gran Turismo 5 (11.95 million) [3]
- Gran Turismo 4 (11.73 million) [3]
- Horizon: Zero Dawn (10 million)[4]
- Gran Turismo II (9.37 million) [3]
- Gran Turismo Sport (8 million) [2]
- Days Gone(8 million)[1]
- Ghost of Tsushima PS4(8 million)[2]
- Crash Bandicoot (6.82 million)[5]
- Uncharted 3 (6.6+ million) [6]
- Uncharted 2 (6.5 million) [6]
- inFAMOUS Second Son (6 million)[2]
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But Sonic Colors was not an exclusive no?
So what does that matter at all in regards to how large of a reach or engagement that franchise has?
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Can we not bring in the “Xbox can’t acquire in Japan” argument again? Especially since that’s one analyst making the assessment.
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Our resident Xbox Era analyst (and expert on release dates) has said so as well though
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Do you mean Hindle?
I don’t think he ever said they “can’t”. He said they “won’t”. I agree with him on that regarding the publishers at least.
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I’m just talking sh*t lol
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After hearing about A44 games Flintlock Seige of Dawn how would we feel about Xbox going after them for the Action RPG/souls type of Dev? They are in New Zealand i don’t think Xbox has anyone in that area. They seem to be punching above their weight and pushing their capabilities with each game. Xbox money could help then grow and hit those goals and could probably grow them into a serious AAA developer.
I think the consensus for Xbox going forward with individual studios is to have a Undead Labs, Playground Games relationship. Work with them on multiple games through a second party relationship, then acquire.
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Speaking of Sega, they’re doing well. Cross-posting this from the Market Analysis thread to show what a great pickup they would be for Microsoft.
Sega doin well with their Sonic movies, plans for a 3rd one and a TV series.
Revenue $2.49b +15.6% YoY Operating Income $248.7m +492% YoY
Expecting an increase in revenue and new title releases in FY23.
16 titles to be released in FY23 for a total of 13.95m units, up from 13 titles in FY22 and 8.77m units.
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Out of all the big western and eastern publishers in video game industry 3/9 publishers are for sale. In terms of the west Ea and take two are not selling. Wb and Ubisoft both up for sale. In the east bandio namco, sega, capcom and Konami all increased profits from the previous year. The only company that seems like it will sell in the east is square Enix.
Out of Ubisoft, wb games and square Enix
Ubisoft will the gulimorts still want control or will they sell and let Microsoft take control. In my opnion Xbox should get Ubisoft plus on Xbox game pass.If there is a big company like tencent , apple or Amazon might be a defensive purchase if they don’t want to sell to competitor Xbox should keep strong relationship
I feel like wb is the best opinion and most likely to sell as wb discovery need money because the debt they are in. If Xbox can buy out the licenses out right that’s the move. They might have to pay a lot of money to buy game licenses out right with studios . 5 billion studios and 10 billion ip so around 15 billion
Square Enix would be hard to get because of the company being in Japan. The upside is owning a franchise like final fantasy but I believe if they buy them all there games would have to be mutiplat. I feel like the other problem if dragon quest and kingdom hearts aren’t fully owned by square Enix. Xbox might decide to buy to expand in Japan and final fantasy on mobile would be big for Xbox to break in the eastern mobile phone market
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It basically seems like the Japanese gaming industry in general is booming
and you love to see it!
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This was the sales for Sonic Colors: Ultimate during its release last fiscal year.
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Xbox should just buy Sega Sammy as a whole and then trade the Sammy side to Konami for it’s gaming side, win win for everyone 
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Don’t know if you saw, but Konami just had their most profitable year ever, and it was thanks to games… lol.