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EpicRandy on 26 March 2023
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Ryuu96 said:
Spade said:

Chill for a couple of years until they get a pubby? or anything all together? They can still and should go for smaller ones now. Especially if Sony will respond. Would lol if Sony f'ed themselves over for future buys. 

In the meantime Sony will definitely be buying up more 3rd party games to take away from Xbox. Meltdowns in here will be funny though  

Once this deal closes would love to see another interview asking Patriarch Philly of any news on buying any more studios. 

Publisher...Unless it's a defensive move.

I don't see MS going for another publisher for a very long time. $70B is a one of a kind aquisition for MS to date so I think they would want to get some data on the impact of the move over a sufficient large timeframe and see wether it meet expectation first. Then they would likely analyze whether another aquisition of a similar size can be expected to produce less of, a repetition of or more of an impact.

The most important metric on which they would measure this is probably in Gamepass sub counts, MAU and time spent by those subs in ABK content. And since CoD may well be kept out of gamepass for some years due to those marketing deal witch, correct me if I'm wrong, should end at the end of 2025, getting data on the impact might be an exercice in patience.

Also I think they might have some significant diminishing returns aquiring another publisher. They should already have like 50 studios by that point able to produce like 8-9 AAA/ years on a 6 years cycle not counting 2nd party initiatives. At some point there's not much increasing this will do to increase the appeal of GamePass. 

Last edited by EpicRandy - on 26 March 2023