| NobleTeam360 said: Yeah, agree that MS will have to stick with WAY cheaper targets if the deal gets blocked. Probably stay away from publicly traded companies in general. Not really sure what can be had for that "cheap" of a price though. |
I would imagine they would still be able to get any of the relatively cheap publishers, even those publicly traded. Activision-Blizzard is $69b and adds a pretty significant amount to Xbox's software marketshare, there are quite a few publishers that are worth less than $10b and would add a much smaller percentage to Xbox's software marketshare which Xbox should be able to get past the regulators; Sega, Koei Tecmo, Square Enix, Capcom, Konami, Warner Bros. Interactive, even Ubisoft would have a good chance I'd say. EA or Take-Two/2K they would struggle with, just like ABK, Nintendo and Sony as well of course.
Plus any independent AAA studios could be targets, Crytek, CD Projekt, Avalanche, IOI, etc.
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