Whay doesn't Microsoft buy more companies?

[waron]

scottie said:

ultraslick said:
In my personal opinion, Microsofts lack of 1st party devs is their biggest weekness.
Both of their competitors put out many many great 1st party games, and most Microsoft "exclusives" become multiplat to PS3 down the line.

Just imagine if MS bought EA or Acti-Blizzard. It would be game over!
even if they could pull devs like bethesda or ubisoft away and make them 1st party, it would be incredibly valuable.
I like the idea of the exclusive though.

I wish every game was exclusive.

This comes up every now and again.

 

EA CANNOT BE A FIRST PARTY DEVELOPER!

 

The majority of EA's licensed games (all their sports games for example) are licensed to them with the term that they must publish them on "all viable platforms" If MS bought EA, they would either have to give up all their IP, or continue to make games for the PS3, Wii, DS, Iphone, PSP. Hardly ideal for a purchase.

no, they would just need to make them timed exclusive for xbox platforms and PCs which would kill other consoles. 4-6 month exclusivity for all EA games would kill sales of sonys and nintendos home consoles since MS would pretty much own North America and Others market.