Rumor: Microsoft Looking to Acquire Studio in Poland - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2020 / 7,219 Views
Microsoft is looking to expand Xbox Game Studios more with an acquisition in Poland, if a new rumor from the podcast of Borys Nieśpielak proves to be true. Nieśpielak is a filmmaker who covered the gaming industry in Poland in his documentary We Are Alright.
A user on Twitter has translated a section of the podcast into English:
"This is a confirmed thing, but the [details] are uncertain. Microsoft was shopping in Poland. It's not known if they bought someone. [...] It's known they were for sure in Poland. I know for sure that they talked to one studio. It's not known with whom else [they spoke]. It's not known if they reached an agreement with anyone. I can't say who they talked to too much. But it's known that this was the case."
The question is who would Microsoft be interested in acquiring. CD Projekt RED is the most well known developer from Poland, however, they are the most unlikely as they are worth nearly $7 billion, according to wccftech.
Other possibilities include People Can Fly, developers of Gears of War: Judgment and Bulletstorm, The Astronauts, developer of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and Techland, the developer of Dying Light. There are also The Farm 51, CI Games, 11-Bit Studios, and Bloover Team.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Its gotta be CDP just for the lulz.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a small indie studio.
There are more studios there than I knew, but CDP is very different than the type of studio they bought so far, the others are a little irrelevant.
CDP would make no sense.
Next will be buying Nintendo.
Yeah i'm a bit suprised my comment got downvoted so much,like why would a company like CD Projekt RED with its own freedom and a huge amount of resources while at the moment having so much credit with it's marketbase even slighty consider being bought out by Microsoft? My main guess is this being so sensitive because people take their console of choice often a bit too personal but i wish them a merry multiplatform developer time!
@classicgamingwizzz well, it's not as if CD Projekt is such a huge studio. What did they release in the last 10 years and what's their revenue/profit? Their whole damn revenue was 80 million last year and 100 million in 2017. Insomniac may have a similar or even better yearly revenue than them and it was pretty easy to buy them for Sony. People who don't know CD Projekt's net worth may think that there wouldn't be such a huge difference to buy them. I mean, who would know they are almost as much worth as Ubisoft while Ubisoft releases plenty of games a year and has like 20x as high revenue/profit numbers?
If you only look at what they release and don't know their net worth, then the studio doesn't look that expensive.
Like I said, their revenue is only around 100 million Euro a year. May be 300 next year and then again only 100 million for some years. That isn't much. They don't make billions like Rockstar just with GTA Online. They make only the minimum you can get from games since it's all about single player.
Their net worth is gigantic but that's not something you simply know and If someone didn't read the net worth, it is just not far stretched to think they wouldn't be too expensive with their laughable revenue numbers.
Ubisoft does that in a few weeks and is still not much more worth.
No reason for you to act as If CD Projekt ist such a gigantic studio just because you read about the laughable net worth
If they pull off buying CDR, that would cause a massive storm. They did buy Minecraft for $3b so buying a studio for $7b which continue to deliver wouldnt suprise me.
I really want to see MS buy Moon Studios, small indy company injected with a bigger bugdet would make alot more sense.
I dont see CDP happening. They'd probably turn them down or ask for way more money thN microsoft would be willing to spend. But it would cause the internet to explode if it did happen.
CD Project is very unlikely, not just due to size, but also due to GOG. Techland, on the other hand, would be a possibility.
But I'm expecting People can Fly as the target of the acquisition due to their collaboration on GoW: Judgement
Everything you named but CDP makes sense. All the others are proven studios but not too pricey that would probably welcome a microsoft acquisition.
They have a relatively small revenue (like a few hundred million dollars in their best years) and only release a big game every few years but year, since they are on the stock exchange and worth so much, they are too expensive for how useful they would be for MS.
MS could almost buy Ubisoft for the same money. They are only worth like 2 billion more.
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