| shikamaru317 said: Shame they didn't acquire Techland, 2 more AAA teams would have really bolstered their 1st party output. MS really needs to act soon on acquiring more studios, especially AAA. There are very few AAA indie studios left these days, and they can't really afford to let Sony, Google, or Amazon beat them to the punch on acquiring those that remain. If they truly want to hit 4 AAA's a year like they claim, they need more AAA capable teams than they have currently, which either means expansion of more current AAA 1st party studios into multi-team studios, creating more new AAA studios from the ground up than just two (Playground RPG and The Initiative), or acquiring some of the remaining indie AAA studios. Acquiring more AA and A studios certainly won't hurt either, if they really want Gamepass to be a good value worth paying $15 a month for, they'll need plenty of exclusive content paced evenly through the year; ideally they should be working towards having 1 AAA and 1 A or AA exclusive every 3 months. |
Tbh, I don't think it's really necessary to buy more studios just because you want more AAA content. Even the smaller devs MS now owns, those people will get more experienced, and ambitious over time, and they'll make bigger games. What's important is that you have strong foundations. You can always grow a studio to meet new goals.
That said, I obviously wouldn't mind seeing MS make another big splash, but I definitely think they're in a good place right now.
