Xbox is Still Open to Acquiring More Publishers and Developers - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 December 2024 / 2,664 Views
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer speaking with Bloomberg revealed Xbox is still open to acquiring more publishers and developers.
"We definitely want to be in the market, and when we can find teams and technology and capability that add to what we're trying to do in gaming at Microsoft, absolutely we will keep our heads up," said Spencer.
Spencer added no deals were "imminent" and any that might happen won't be on the scale of Activision Blizzard.
China is a potential area for acquisitions, according to Spencer.
"It’s been a good area for us to learn from creative teams that have real unique capability," he said. "The real opportunity is to partner with creative teams in China for global."
Xbox in recent years has acquired Activision Blizzard, Bethesda parent company ZeniMax, and over a dozen other studios.
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Of course they are. It's about control of IPs after all. Don't create, buy!
not even Banjo Kazooie is popular enough to the higher-ups at Microsoft. This company is the LAST one I would want acquiring studios! They'd all get shelved.
Sony the same. Where's sky cooper, infamous, resistance, killzone, socom, heavenly sword, order 1866 sequel. This just a tiny fraction lol
What does Sony have to do with anything? Lol. I agree with you that Sony has this problem...but we're talking about Xbox rn.
Right and why do you think Sony and Nintendo did that in the past? For control. To make their system more appealing, get consumers into their economic system.
Difference is, they paid for exclusive games to make their systems more appealing. MS is paying to own the IP rights of massive franchises from companies who already built up a big reputation to control where you get those IPs. If MS wanted to, they could remove all their IPs from any competing service, Steam, Nintendo and Sony in an instant (even CoD, although they'd get sued out their arse) and say to consumers "You come to us for these games now."
If it wasn't for some regulators, I doubt MS wouldn't have even shared like they are. But in the end, they spend 80 billion, more than the 2 main rival companies profits combined for like a decade and need to make it back. You don't get it back from giving these games for £15 on a monthly service.
Well Sony owns the IP from first party studios. No one else gets to play them right?. That sounds very similar to Xbox strategy. Owning ips is a way to make the platform appealing right? At least Ms shares unlike Sony or Nintendo. We all knew cod would have been shared. Most of cod profits come from ps. Ms not that stupid lol.
They have made the money spent on acquisitions already.
Ms loves and won't do that. Plus the future with exclusivity will end as budgets are getting way too big to be sustainable.
Someone should have told them Tango Gameworks was just up for sale. They missed a golden opportunity!
Puke. Haven’t they done enough damage?
The bear that keeps on devouring.
What is the point? if they closed studios and mass layoff people.... only to buy more publishers?
They close what isn't making money.
Please no more
I think this is the reason why they release their games multiplat. They want to be able to show regulators that they are not hoarding the games so they will be allowed to buy more publishers and developers.
MS alone fired like 8k devs over the last few years, so let them buy more.
Yes buy Chinese products don't buy anymore big publisher devs lol
They should buy big japanese publishers. They need some
Don't understand why the biggest software company in the World needs to buy other software companies? they should instead try to make good games. There's only one good game made by M$ and that's Flight Sim.
There's more then that lol. Sony didn't have those first party by creating . They paid for them during ps1-4 days
I hope they buy Sega and Ubisoft next. If they can buy Japanese one then capcom or atlus or both
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