MS looks to Gaming and Cloud (no not THAT Cloud VGC) plus $81bn IN CASH to weather PC storm

[DirtyP2002]

Seece said:

DirtyP2002 said:

MS is as healthy as ever. Actually they have more money, bigger headcount, more revenue than they ever had. And this is in a time, when people keep repeating the "MS is doomed" phrase.

When MS keeps on buying companies like in the past years:

2011: Skype for 8.5 billion USD
2012: Yammer for 1.2 billion USD
2013: Nokia for 7.2 billion USD

you clearly see how EASY Microsoft could win this minor console war thing. Let them invest just 50% of the money they spent on Skype for the Xbox brand and it is game over for Playstation and Nintendo.

Just for comparison, here are some videogame companies and their market cap:

Capcom: 1.3 billion USD
Konami: 3.5 billion USD
Square Enix: 1.8 billion USD
TakeTwo: 1.6 billion USD
KOEI Tecmo: 1 billion USD
Activision Blizzard: 8.7 billion USD

Indeed, it'd be interesting to see what MS would do if they started losing serious ground to playstation again.

EDD made $1b~ last year, if they managed to get TT for 1.6b then it'd more than be worth it.

let them invest 3.5 billion USD and buy Capcom + Take Two.

Resident Evil, GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, Bioshock... soooo many IPs.