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gtotheunit91 said:

shikamaru317 said:

Apparently Take-Two has turned down Embracer Group's sale offer on Gearbox. Take-Two doesn't want them, Xbox is locked up on ABK still for the next several weeks and may not want to rock the boat by announcing any new acquisitions for at least several months afterward. Embracer Group is so screwed, I doubt anybody else will offer them anywhere near the overvalued $1.3b Embracer paid for them.

They should sell Crystal Dynamics and Eidos to Xbox in a few months instead, far better grabs for Xbox than Gearbox, especially since both are currently assisting on 1st party games, Crystal on Perfect Dark and Eidos on Fable. 

Definitely. Especially before Embracer does further damage to CD and Eidos

They also come with IP's that are actually worth acquiring. With Gearbox, their biggest IP is Borderlands, which Take-Two already has partial ownership of, so Xbox wouldn't be getting any exclusive or even multiplat but day one Gamepass Borderlands games from the deal, so the only IP they would get would be Duke Nukem (dead and pretty much unrevivable without losing it's identity as a franchise, because even in 2011 people found Duke offensive, and they'd find him even more offensive now in the 2020's), Brothers in Arms (dead, was never particularly popular to begin with, as the biggest game in the series only sold like 2m copies), Homeworld (fairly niche RTS series), and Battleborn (dead and flopped the first time around).

Crystal and Eidos, in addition to already assisting on Xbox 1st party games, come with two relevant, fairly popular IP's in Tomb Raider and Deus Ex, as well as dormant but possibly revivable IP's Thief and Legacy of Kain. They're just a much better fit for Xbox.  

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 22 September 2023