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vivster on 30 January 2018

EA would certainly be interesting. I'd not be necessarily opposed to that. And while I do not like the concept of exclusive games I would love to see the reaction from a certain faction about how it feels to be deprived from a lot of AAA games.

The acquisition of Bluehole seems extremely likely though. Then again, it might be so likely that anyone could've dreamed that up and spread it as rumor.



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DonFerrari on 30 January 2018

Because creating is very hard to do, so let's shop around.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

vivster on 30 January 2018
DonFerrari said:
Because creating is very hard to do, so let's shop around.

That seems to be an epidemic nowadays. No one creates and everyone is just buying stuff. I heard that even Nintendo is just paying people to make games for them. It's really sad.



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jason1637 on 30 January 2018
KeithC1990 said:
Am I the only one who thinks buying the PUBG developer is a terrible move, firstly pretty much 90% of the profits of that game will have already been made, and it's not like they have a string of big games, they have one.

They did well hitting the Battle Royale market right at the start, however it's very likely that Activision, EA, Ubisoft and every big developer out there has some form of Battle Royale game on the go right now so personally I think it would be a terrible purchase.

People said that about Minectaft but Minecraft has sold more since MS bought Mojang than before.



JamesGarret on 30 January 2018

Even if there is some truth to this rumor, I doubt MS would be shelling almost 40 billion, which is an insane number, just to make Xbox exclusives.No, I think it´d be the same situation as Minecraft.



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DonFerrari on 30 January 2018
Azzanation said:

MS buying Valve out seems too perfect as a buisness deal. Valve is one of my all time favourite companies next to Blizzard however there old and they dont make games anymore. MS can merge there Live Store with Steam and every Windows user will have Steam built in. It would be expensive but Valve is a small company and not housing many staff. They probably want to retire now. A big enough pay check might convince them and the future of Windows/Steam will remain safe. 

That would hurt Apple.

A good match on the not making games.

vivster said:
DonFerrari said:
Because creating is very hard to do, so let's shop around.

That seems to be an epidemic nowadays. No one creates and everyone is just buying stuff. I heard that even Nintendo is just paying people to make games for them. It's really sad.

Yep market on the last 5 years or more have looked to be all about mergers and acquisitions.

jason1637 said:
KeithC1990 said:
Am I the only one who thinks buying the PUBG developer is a terrible move, firstly pretty much 90% of the profits of that game will have already been made, and it's not like they have a string of big games, they have one.

They did well hitting the Battle Royale market right at the start, however it's very likely that Activision, EA, Ubisoft and every big developer out there has some form of Battle Royale game on the go right now so personally I think it would be a terrible purchase.

People said that about Minectaft but Minecraft has sold more since MS bought Mojang than before.

Have Minecraft profit after MS acquisition passed 4B already?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

KratosLives on 30 January 2018

They won't dare buy EA. Sony would buy out take 2 or get the rights to future rockstar titles.



LudicrousSpeed on 30 January 2018
KratosLives said:
They won't dare buy EA. Sony would buy out take 2 or get the rights to future rockstar titles.

Microsoft should just buy Sony!



Angelus on 30 January 2018
KratosLives said:
They won't dare buy EA. Sony would buy out take 2 or get the rights to future rockstar titles.

Not saying MS will necessarily buy EA, I really have no idea, but if they want to pursue a Netflix style service for gaming in the near future - which is something I believe every major publisher needs to work on in the next 5 years or so - then such a purchase would make a lot of sense. Also, a corporation doesn't make acquisition decisions based on fear of "oh if we buy out these guys, our competitors might buy out these other guys, etc." That's just nonsense.



Blad3force on 30 January 2018

They can have EA, that company has gone down the drain in the last decade