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shikamaru317 said:
I don't buy the claim that they tried and failed to make any acquisitions there, with the number of Japanese studios that were struggling financially in recent years and having to turn to Chinese investment just to survive, surely some studio would have leapt at the chance of guaranteed paychecks from Xbox if Xbox had actually tried to acquire them. |
I don't know if this is that hard to believe, the choice is selling out to an American company who has next to zero presence in Japan and has repeatedly fucked up there or take an investment from wealthy Chinese giants who are looking to expand and not having to sell your company.
And Tbh I can't really think of many independent Japanese developers. Microsoft should have nabbed a few in 2018 but the climate is a lot more competitive over the past few years to the point that even new studios are propping up and getting huge investments easy.
Should have got a few in 2018 when it was relatively early but if they started looking for Japanese studios later than that, I could buy that it became a lot harder to acquire them, NetEase and Tencent are being very aggressive.
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