Intrinsic said:
Or they could have just bought sega and own franchises like Bayonetta, vanquish, virtua fighter, yakuza...etc. Or the could have done a squreenix and ended up owning IPs like duex ex, hitman, tomb raider..etc. So much more and better things they could have done that would resonate more with gamers and the Xbox brand than what they did. Whats really funny, is that sony is making more games and more new IPs than MS and sony supposedly has less money to throw around. Don't wanna make this a sony ms thing, just pointing out that teher were much better ways to have spent that $3B than the way they chose to do it. |
Oh I completely agree that they could have spent that 3 BILLION with a "B" on better things than Minecraft or the NFL as you mentioned. I am actually shocked that they turned down a game like Bayonetta since those game developers were asking for someone to invest money into the franchise. The last company that I expected to shell out money would have been Nintendo. The only problem with owning franchises like say...tomb raider might be a bad decision.
I say this because everyone here saw the backlash that Microsoft got when they announced that Tomb Raider was "exclusive" to the XB1 come holiday 2015. Everyone was in outrage! But then we later found out that it wasn't exclusive exclusive...
