Microsoft might acquire IO Interactive

[COKTOE]

smroadkill15 said:

COKTOE said:

If this buyout happens, and IO's next project is a Hitman game, it will almost certainly be on the next gen consoles.  Just for fun though, where I come from, Canada, we reward courage. Also the XBO S is $300. So hypothetically, if the MS exclusive Hitman came out next month, it would cost me over $400 ( console and game ) with tax for the cheapest option available. And running it on the S, it would be a substantial step down from the Pro. The original XBO as well as the S, weren't attractive hardware to me years ago, let alone now or in the future. Buying an X and the game would run me about $775. Score! Ha. :)  My faith in PS has been shaken, so maybe, maaaayyybeee, by that time I will have at least partially migrated over to PC gaming. I need to diversify somewhat. I've put so much into PS, that even if things go south for the brand, at least as far as my own interests are concerned, jumping ship will be a huge hassle. It's not at that point yet, but PC has become an increasingly attractive option.

So there is absolutely nothing else that interest you on Xbox ecosystem? Even now with the huge investment in 1st party studios, and likely more to come? 

Ahhhhhhh. I gotta quit posting on Saturday. I'm usually way too gone by the end of the day to recognize basic shapes......It's not so much a matter of Xbox having "absolutely nothing of interest" as it is not needing to buy into another platform. I have well over 1000 games on PS3, PS Vita and PS4. So many games that I will absolutely never be able to play them all between now, and the time I die. To say nothing for the "ecosystem bump' that 10 years and so many games is apt to produce. PS is where all my gaming friends are. It's my only online gaming identity.  I HAD 2 XBL accounts, and if they were still accessible, I may have already re-upped into XBL on a lark. But that's not how MS operates. There are XBO exclusives that interest me, but I'm already in retard territory in terms of overbuying. Also, it's the wettest games collection ever in terms of water. In addition to this, in spite of the solid hardware and software offerings from XB, even if my library were a fraction of what it was, and I could more easily justify another platform purchase....I don't like MS. It's not something I've hidden on this site over the past decade. I don't want to, and won't, buy into what they're selling. So, buying another console, for the privilege of playing a handful of games I wouldn't otherwise have access to, from a company I also don't want to support, is tantamount to madness. Which like my game collection, I also have in spades on any given Saturday.

Last edited by COKTOE - on 26 November 2018