Kotaku- Microsoft is close to buying Obsidian Entertainment

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EspadaGrim said:

Pemalite said:
This is kinda' the entire industries fault.
People complained about the lack of games, so obviously Microsoft is going to go shopping to rectify said criticisms.

IMO it has more to do with the the rising cost of developing games, big independent studios nowadays are being bought up by Outside Investors/Parent Company's. It's getting hard to survive out there and next gen being around the corner won't help those studios either.

Not every game costs a few hundred mil to make, and even then a lot of those AAA games end up spending a lot more on merch and marketing than the game itself.

 

Also, I'd rather not every single IP known to man be snatched up and locked behind each of the big 3 either, let alone PC IP's.