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Playstation_awaiter on 04 June 2017
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mountaindewslave said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
This could work: buy Capcom and make the next Monster Hunter games for XBOne, Windows Mobile and PSV, but neither for Switch, nor for PS4, nor for Android, and port to Windows PC one year later to avoid damaging XBOne sales. Same thing for all the other Capcom games. This should attack Switch from every side, every possible competition direction, but without making other MS competitors stronger where they could be or already are dangerous for XBOne or Windows.
Same thing, if possible, with another publisher of games that usually sell very well on Ninty or Sony platforms.

yeah.... spend probably over 5 billion dollars on acquiring Capcom just to essentially TAKE AWAY Franchises from their competitors. Capcom is probably just not worth acquiring at this point for their IPs or someone would have attempted it in the last bunch of years where they weren't doing great imo

Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Mega Man- they're all stellar franchises but don't justifiy taking over Capcom. Not that a move is even possible most likely , we've been over Japanese law on foreignors buying their companies 

I do agree that moneyhatting for a bunch of third party exclusives can't hurt though. They honestly should get Resident Evil exclusive on the Xbox. get some Square Enix games exclusive (the Tomb Raider game was a mistake obvs, but anyone could have seen that coming). maybe get a window of exclusivity for some giant game (lke a 2K game or some EA sports game).

The problem is MIcrosoft is too cheap with their video game division. They're unwilling to invest heavily into first party development and won't moneyhat third parties. I'm not sure what their longterm plan is beyond, again, just transitioning to a platform where Xbox is directly connected to their PC software/programming 

Terrible idea, they need their own Ips not take away from the others. How does it benefit xbox fans? They would get the game either way. Fortunately, the playstation marketshare is so much bigger that it makes that very unlikely.