Polygon: Microsoft's Current Dilemma With Games

[DonFerrari]

Azzanation said:

MS buying Valve out seems too perfect as a buisness deal. Valve is one of my all time favourite companies next to Blizzard however there old and they dont make games anymore. MS can merge there Live Store with Steam and every Windows user will have Steam built in. It would be expensive but Valve is a small company and not housing many staff. They probably want to retire now. A big enough pay check might convince them and the future of Windows/Steam will remain safe. 

That would hurt Apple.

A good match on the not making games.

vivster said:

DonFerrari said:
Because creating is very hard to do, so let's shop around.

That seems to be an epidemic nowadays. No one creates and everyone is just buying stuff. I heard that even Nintendo is just paying people to make games for them. It's really sad.

Yep market on the last 5 years or more have looked to be all about mergers and acquisitions.

jason1637 said:

KeithC1990 said:
Am I the only one who thinks buying the PUBG developer is a terrible move, firstly pretty much 90% of the profits of that game will have already been made, and it's not like they have a string of big games, they have one.

They did well hitting the Battle Royale market right at the start, however it's very likely that Activision, EA, Ubisoft and every big developer out there has some form of Battle Royale game on the go right now so personally I think it would be a terrible purchase.

People said that about Minectaft but Minecraft has sold more since MS bought Mojang than before.

Have Minecraft profit after MS acquisition passed 4B already?