rocketpig on 31 August 2007
MS stated awhile ago that buying up third parties is not their long-term strategy after picking up Rare, Lionhead, and a few others. They purchased those to round out their first-party offerings.
If MS was going to purchase anyone, it would have been Take Two when they were on the verge of outright sale about 6 months ago. Their market value at the time was around $1.6 billion, about 1/2 of SEs by the OP's estimations.
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