RUMOR: Sony in discussions to aquire Take-Two Interactive

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ArchangelMadzz said:

dx11332sega said:

They would Because the uproar from taketwo will have Microsoft thinking twice .Satya nadella doesn't wanna get embarassed that Sony just made a big move so satya nadella green lights microsoft to buy big 

Xbox is such a small division of Microsoft. I highly doubt it would bother him that much as long as the Xbox division can still bring profits. 

Microsoft invest in Xbox, but the money it would take to buy EA, I doubt they'd allow such a huge investment, especially as they already got quite a lot of money for the Minecraft purchase which I doubt they've seen a full return on yet. 

You are thinking way to small.  If MS decided to purchase EA it would not just be for the Xbox division.  MS is already in a transition to move gamepass and their other online gaming services to everything they can get it on.  Purchasing EA or any other big time publisher would be an investment for all of their products.  From Azure to PC, to Xbox and cloud services.  Ultimately MS is looking to own the gaming space as much as possible because its another area for huge profit margins if you can lock all type of consumers to one platform.