shikamaru317 said:
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Sega would be another 6-8 months to close, I think it would close but maybe even longer in account of the fact that they've just done a major Activision-Blizzard acquisition. Definitely think they need to snap up any individual studio they can first before going for another publisher, all those that want to sell and are important to Xbox (Certain Affinity, Skybox Labs, Asobo, IO Interactive).
Don't know why Microsoft is allergic to minority stakes, especially when their competitors (Tencent, Sony) do them often in gaming, stakes in Epic and From Software for example, Microsoft could take out a minority stake in Sega for now. Maybe they could put minority stakes in a few Japanese companies, would hardly cost them a thing, Lol.
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