Legend11 said:
They should just purchase Take-Two and then they'd have Grand Theft Auto, Bioshock, Max Payne, Civilization, Red Dead Revolver, etc, franchises. In one swoop they would acquire 18 development studios as well as gaining exclusivity to many games in development including Bioshock 2, Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire, Max Payne 3, Borderlands, Mafia 2, as well as several other big games that are also likely in development. I'm sure that would end the attacks on Microsoft's upcoming lineup and would make Microsoft's first party development abilities far more formidable. |
that is certainly possible. with the economic downturn take two is pretty vulnerable right now. They are only valued at about 750 million, so if microsoft threw a billion dollars at them that would probably do the trick. Thats quite a bit more than 200 million though, and while it would give microsoft tons of exclusives, take two isn't exactly the most profitable company. Microsoft would probably have to do some major downsizing to take two to make them profitable. I just don't think microsoft would see a ROI for a long time and microsoft doesn't need to saddle their entertainment divsion with more debt. I don't see it happening.
