Rumor: Microsoft Acquiring Playground Games and other Unknown Studios

[DonFerrari]

CGI-Quality said:

Bandorr said:

And i'd consider the purchasing of Quantic dream to also be fairly foolish without reason. You are already getting the games, with no competition. So why spend time/money/effort on getting something you've already gotten.

Feels like there is a "reason" missing. Why now? Did they want to stop making Forza games (IE bungie). Did they want to go third party (like Remedy). Did another Company offer them something?

Then again what is the name of the studio that makes the other Forza games? Is that first party, or third party? Maybe Microsoft wants to combine them.

There is a reason - and without that reason I think it appears foolish.

Not foolish at all. Growing your Team Base makes a lot of sense when the company and its properties are synonymous with your brand. We can speculate on the reason, but that's pointless. There's currently not outward negative apparent to it. Playground already makes games for Microsoft, as you noted. The acquisition is the next logical step.

To me it would make sense only if they invest a lot in the studio to increase it and the output, otherwise perhaps a 5 year contract would be better.