Acquisition seems more secured in compare to before and other type of news.
They donât really need to buy it, they should be able to create an event of their onw. Would be better also.
Itâs simply a âgut feelingâ. I consider myself pretty good at reading the room of the game industry⌠To gloat for a bit I correctly predicted Ghostwire selling 10k in Japan and Babylonâs Fall getting a red metascore. I have some reasons:
I just donât think MS wants to deal with dismantling all the non gaming stuff out of any of these publishers. Buying these Japanese publishers is a way different process than a Western one. That only leaves Capcom and Koei Tecmo. Now is the worst time to buy Capcom. The premium would be immense. I donât think MS wants to pay it. I think theyâre fine getting all Capcom games multiplat which they have been since SFV with the exception of MH Rise which is a unique sort of case. Koei Tecmo I donât think MS is interested in. Xbox still misses like half their games even. For all of these publishers I think MS will be fine with getting their multiplats.
Itâs also the case that Zenimax and Activision were crazy good opportunities. A lot of Zenimax games were underperforming and it was a private company. Activision, well, you know the story there I think.
For Sony, none of them seem to provide the content they are looking for. At least not for the billions of dollars they would cost, and for Sony, thatâs basically the entire acquisition budget.
Capcom doesnât have a lot of non-gaming stuff, I guess itâs all gaming.
While true, I would like everyone else join in, publisher speaking. But if they canât do that, then create their own. Make Xbox Fan Fest into their actual E3.
I mean everybody knews that Ghostwire will flop and Babylonâs Fall will flop 
That should rule out a Take Two, and I even highly doubt Sony could even do that. CDPR is what Iâd consider big too, or would they be under the same category as Obsidian, Ninja Theory etc? I donât think so, right?
Yeah for sure but I went for the jugular on Babylon and said red metascore. That was a year before it was out. âYellow score/medicore gameâ seemed to be the common sentiment before the truth hit.
Ghostwire was obviously primed to underperform but I went for a straight number and said 10k in Japan. It sold 10k in Japan.
Nonetheless this is just all my âgut feelingâ stuff. Iâm not a certified analyst or anything 
Iâll eat crow if either of them snatch a major Japanese publisher or Kadokawa/FromSoft.
CDPR has a market cap of around 5 billion, so yes they are rather big.
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Not sure why Ghostwire Tokyo would be assumed to sell well in Japan.
Thatâs like assuming a game based in America would automatically be flop proof in the American market. Itâs just another game to the Japanese market, they probably donât give 2 shits about it being set in Japan.
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So what is Sony going to have on their PS Plus Premium Extra tier then???
Tomorrow is not within this Month. 
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Who wants to bet they are falling for April Foolâs day pranks
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Well, Craig Miller did mention something big earlier this week, so Iâm not sure itâs April fools.
Also, we have to remember that Geoff said some big deals were yet to be announced. He said that after Bungie. He could mean Xbox too or someone else but knowing him he meant Sony. I donât think itâs nothing.
On the one hand we should expect the news because Sony said it themselves when they acquired Bungie. But on the other hand, whatever this rumour is, it seems like loads of people know, even Benji has heard of the name lol, so it could be a case of whispers going on.
History shows that Sony is very good at keeping acquisitions very close to their chest bar that time they leaked Bluepoint themselves lol.
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playstation insiders lmao
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Yep, and Geoff Keighley said big deals were still being made. Doesnât confirm acquisitions necessarily, could be game deals too, but since he said this after Bungie I think itâs acquisitions. This time around thereâs quite a few people now talking about it.
But on the other hand⌠Gregg Miller delayed his podcast for this, yet we still know nothing and tomorrow is April fools. Maybe in the weekend then?
So whatâs your prediction?
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