Microsoft Has No Plans to Acquire More Studios - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 March 2020 / 5,046 Views
Xbox Games Marketing Manager Aaron Greenberg speaking with Twinfinite at Gamescom 2019 was asked about Microsoft acquiring more studios to increase its lineup of first-party developers. He said Microsoft was done acquiring more studios.
"It’s been exciting and it’s been great getting to know all these teams, going out and sitting down with Ninja Theory, or the team at Obsidian or inXile, and seeing the stuff that they’re working on now that people know about and the secret things they have in the works that people don’t know about yet. We’ll in time be sharing more about those," said Greenberg.
"I think we feel good about the level of content we have coming from our internal studios, but we felt good about that and then the opportunity with Double Fine came and that was a perfect fit.
You never know, but right now I think where we are, with our 15 internal studios, we feel really good about the amount of content we’re getting from that, whether it’s supporting Project Scarlett, or supporting Xbox Games Pass on PC and console, we feel like we have a healthy set of content across multiple genres, multiple game types, that will excite our fans."
Microsoft most recently, at E3 2019, announced it had acquired Double Fine.
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In his response he doesn't actually say they have no more plans, just that they feel good about the 15 they currently have. He says they previously felt the same way when they had 14 but then the opportunity came around with Double Fine so they went for it, so it sounds like if they have other opportunities in the future they may go for them as well if the studio fits what they're looking for. Either way I doubt they're done tho tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if another is announced at X019 or later.
Yeah it's a Clickbait title just like the Gaming Bolt one from yesterday. Gotta get them clicks and keep the hamsters fed.
New studio acquisition incoming...
Would be good if they built up some studios from the ground up, then they can have studios targeted to specific genres that tend to be neglected on consoles.
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Not sure about there PC branch, they might have afew littler ones aswell. I believe they created a new Studio for the Age of Empire series.
I know the site has click bait ads all throughout the website, but I didn't think the articles were going to turn into click bait too.
He doesn't say anything about Microsoft having "no plans" to acquire any more studios...
Microsoft saying something isnt saying anything.
If they could stop buying exclusives from third parties as well that would be great.
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