Yes could be good for xbox if they buy it, but at what longtearm cost ?
Is the studio competitive else alot of cost for a 800 Staff.

Nah Street Fighter should remain between Microsoft and Sony both. Street Fighter games been on Sony consoles longer anyway (Alpha series, VS series, etc). Dead Rising should certainly go to Microsoft though. I do agree that if any of the big 3 got Capcom, it will certainly tarnish the morale of the gamers on other systems. They should just remain 3rd party.

Imo those companies are not worth buying whole dismantle them and buy the intellectual property... Maybe...

At this point, M$ can't win. They could buy 10 studios and the anti-M$ people would still complain that they don't have enough. Even if they developed the most beloved franchises from each studio they own or buy, people would still complain.

OT : they should go for it.Get the IPs and the engine.

Since when is crytek for sale.i don't think they want ms to buy them

I'd rather they buy one or the other, not both. Preferably Capcom, as I don't see much value in Crytek, especially since most of their games are shooter: Homefront, Crysis, Time splitters.

You don't actually think that counts do you?  It's the country of origin of the company, not whether it has a branch.  

It woud do exactly jack squat for Microsoft in Japan. Outside of a very small following of loyal Japanese dudebros, reverse weeaboos, or whatever you want to call them, the Xbox brand is a non-starter in Japan. On the other hand, such a move would kill both Monster Hunter and Resident Evil in Japan. In the case of the former franchise, that franchise would be completely dead because MH's western audience is only a sliver of what the Japanese audience is, and I don't see the Japanese following Monster Hunter to a platform family they've repeatedly and pointedly rejected. Furthermore, Monster Hunter is primarily a portable franchise, not a console franchise, so unless Microsoft wants to try to build Windows Phone 8's reputation in Japan, forget it. Resident Evil might survive but at a fraction of the fanbase it had as a multiplat.

Microsoft could benefit from buying Capcom, and releasing their old games as apps in the Windows store, Since buying it once will allow you to play across all of their devices. they could make a good amount of coin that way. Eventually porting the whole library to iOS and Google play store. Japan has moved on from even portable handhelds to playing on smartphones. If they have phones capable of playing Monster Hunter, and resident evil. Why not? As far as Crytek, I agree with the other people saying just buying IP's, and even grabbing their talented programmers. They were more than capable of making a beautiful game, they just needed a better writer, and director. Crytek is the perfect example of choosing graphics over gameplay is a bad idea.

Windows Phone 8 is in even worse shape in Japan than the Xbox line and Monster Hunter ain't gonna raise that corpse from the dead.