This forum has been kind of dead so I just threw something together, you are Microsoft and can spend $100 on companies to acquire from this tier list. Which ones do you pick up and why
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I will start I guess, I would pick up the following if I was incharge of Microsoft/Xbox:
Capcom-$30-$30
SEGA-$20-$50
SQUARE ENIX-$20-$70
KOEI TECMO-$10-$80
ARC WORK SYSTEMS-$5-$85
IOI INTERACTIVE-$5-$90
LEVEL 5-$5-$95
SQUANCH GAMES-$1-$96
BLOOBER TEAM-$1-$97
REBELLION STUDIOS-$1-$98
FACE PUNCH GAMES-$1-$99
MERCURYSTEAM-$1-$100
Valve - Capcom - SEGA
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Sony - $75/$75
And done. No reason to acquire anyone else because by acquiring Sony, you basically get the bigger brand name, all the favoritism and already look dominant by selling 75m consoles plus the 30m or so that Microsoft Xbox Series X/S has sold. Combine them for next generation as the X-Station or PlayBox and off they go.
I’ll throw in an extra dollar for Nintendo. For real though I’d go with:
Valve - $50 (Huge steal with Steam and the massive appeal of Counter-Strike)
EA - $40 (Massive IPs + A sports game division)
Kadokawa - $10 (Don’t know what they’d do with the rest of it but getting FromSoftware is worth it here)
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You might as well spend the rest though, even if its on a collection studios to bring back dead sony IP or to help speed up production of sony games
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Valve $50 - default PC store, loads of revenue and profit, 2 strong live service games, you become the biggest gaming company.
T2/EA $40 - either works, strong ever green titles like GTA and the yearly sports titles means constant revenue and huge boost for gamepass to go alongside another yearly giant COD.
Larian $5 - high quality, GOTY competitor with their releases,.
Bloober $1- portfolio gap filler, getting into their groove with horror, does well sales wise.
Facepunch $1- good studio with strong IP.
Bohemia $1 - good IPs with arma and dayz, has potential to become a hit maker.
Ember labs $1- could possibly work on existing kid friendly IP from Xbox.
Jackbox games $1- good speed of releases, can work well on game pass.
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I will go with a value add stradegy with gamepass as my top priority.
SEGA -20
EMBRACER- 40
Koei Tecmo- 50
CDPR- 60
FOCUS-65
ASOBO-70
LARIAN- 75
SUPERGIANT- 80
PEOPLE CAN FLY -85
CRYTEK- 90
HAZELIGHT-95
SQUANCH GAMES-96
MERCURY STEAM-97
PLAYFUL-98
CERTAIN AFFINITY-99
EMBER LAB-100
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