What Studio Acquisitions have really paid off for a publisher so far?

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PotentHerbs said:

Dulfite said:

I mean, the one that has by far produced the most profit has got to be Mojang. They just keep selling an already made game with minimal updates and release games with graphics small teams can make, pure genius move by Microsoft.

I think that is debatable.

Sony got Insomniac for 220M or so, a massive studio with 3 - 4 development teams, and as part of SIE they already pumped out Miles Morales (20M+ seller), R&C (5M+ seller), with SpiderMan 2 (30M+ seller potential) & Wolverine (20M+ seller potential) scheduled to be released in the next couple of years. Unlike Minecraft, or any of its spinoffs, the Marvel properties Insomniac is working on can move hardware and drive subscription rate growth. 

Moving hardware doesn't mean much when you have +700 million players of minecraft(more than total Playstation HW sold) and almost 150 million monthy active users. Became a top Japanese video game publisher thanks to Minecraft sales alone, Became the most watched video game on youtube + 1 trillion views.