Microsoft overtures to Yahoo aren't exactly "hostile", since hte major shareholders are all for it, and if it came down to a vote, Yahoo's mgmt will lose badly and embrassingly. The only thing to be worked out is fine tuning the final price for this to happen, over the next few weeks and months.
As for the subject of this topic..it's pretty huge news for the 360. Epics...let's see:
- Unreal engine, which is in a TON of games out on the market, and which will allow the 360 to get an even stronger foothold on the 3rd person market.
- Microsoft will have some pretty nifty data on programming on the PS3. think of it as one country getting their hands on another weapon systems data.
- Microsoft makes money off PS3 games...since all these developers are using the Unreal engine to make games.
C'mon...look at the list of people using the engine:
http://www.epicgames.com/
holee cow...and with the financial backing of M$$$...work can get started on improving the Unreal engine to keep the competitive edge, while squeezing every bit of capability out of the system. This is a huge win for Microsoft, if Epic agrees to the deal.
"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."
- From By Schism Rent Asunder
