Letting First Party Studios go...Is Microsoft Planning Something BIG?

[MontanaHatchet]

dsister44 said:

MontanaHatchet said:

bRoKeN said:
they better not buy take 2 and ea

Just so you all know, systematically buying 3rd party publishers doesn't send a good message. Imagine the following:

EA Rep #1: "Due to the high sales of Grand Theft Auto IV on the 360, as well as the incredible sales of the downloadable content for it, Microsoft has purchased Take 2."

EA Rep #2: "Holy hell! We better not develop for the 360 anymore and give them any ideas!"

Believe it or not, 3rd party developers and publishers don't like being bought out. Nintendo probably could have bought dozens of companies already, but they didn't because they wanted to improve their relations with them. Microsoft may have bought a lot of developers when they entered the market with the Xbox, but thats only because they were going up against stiff competition and they knew it was the only way for them to survive.

I doubt Microsoft is going to buy a major company, and if they do, shame on them.

 

 

 

lol that is hilarious,a third party company is not going to stop making games for one of the major systems just because one of their competitors got bought out(especially ea).especially in these economical times 

It was a dramatized example, unless you thought I was being entirely realistic.