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landguy1 on 01 September 2013
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Goddbless said:
bananaking21 said:

 

@OT: i get what these guys are saying, that MS shouldnt just buy devs for the sake of buying. and i agree, its better for a publisher like MS/Sony/Nintendo to get work close with a dev and help develop their talent and increase their teams, then buy them if their working relationship works. thats what Sony did with GG, sucker punch, and many more and they seem to be doing so with quantic dream and ready at dawn. MS seem to be doing the same with Remedy as well


The thing is there are many people that feel MS isn't doing this quickly enough not realizing that it took time for Sony and Nintendo to do the same.

I agree that is a method that can be used and M$ has used it.  I think that their experience with many different things leads them to outsource a lot of things.  From a shareholder perspective, I would want them to outsource.  They are not locked into anything if they don't like the game or how the studio is working = a lot less risk.  Better to spread the money around to many developers and see if it works out = safer investment.  Because we don't have ANY knowledge of the actual contracts that M$ signs, we don't know if in a number of cases that they have options to buy the IP if they want or even the developer.  All of these are things that could be happening, we just don't know.