Microsoft might acquire IO Interactive

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Barozi said:

Bristow9091 said:
I wish the big three would just open new studios instead of buying developers and dividing the fanbse... the only time I think it works out is if it's a second party developer that has mainly made exclusives, such as if Sony were to buy Insomniac.

You can't just open a new studio, aqcuire all the devs that currently don't have a job (likely the bottom of the barrel) and expect that they'll make a decent game. You need experienced personnel for that.
You will always "steal" employees from other studios that way to fill your dev team. So there's no difference between buying a whole studio or acquiring a couple of employees from a dozen of other studios each. Obviously it makes more sense to buy an already winning team.

It's the same reason why we shouldn't care that once famous developer studios close down. It just doesn't matter as these employees will get picked up by other studios and improve their games.

The easy part is to get all the employees and contractors like graphic  artist's and software engineers that go toward making a good game from the technical side,the industry is full of good competent people.  the hard part is getting the creative side right, it's like listening to a great band  before and after adding  great songwriting and production , you need that yang to go with the ying.