| Scisca said: Kinda makes me wonder if they may actually bail out of the whole console business after Xbone (killing it long before Sony kills PS4) and turn into a 3rd party game studio. I know that Live subscriptions earn them crazy money, but the whole Xbox brand is still bringing in loses and it doesn't seem like Xbone is gonna change that trend. I mean, bringing Halo, GeoW and their other franchises to PC and PS4 could actually get them more money with less risk, since they wouldn't have to bleed cash to entice people to buy an unwanted console. |
This is exactly what I thought when MS acquired Mojang and the Minecraft IP. The impression I got from MS when they did that was that they're going 3rd party. The PC market is really huge and is already there for MS to cater to. The PS3 and 360 userbases are also already big and the PS4 has already sold 11 million. That's a ton of consumers for the taking. Debate of whether it was worth $2.5 billion aside, it was a very smart low-risk, high reward acquisition. I would not be surprised if down the line, MS starts going 3rd party with their other huge IPs.
