If Xbox really acquires two more studios, hope they at least have a game that releases 2021. I love all the studio acquisitions but its annoying having to wait 3-4 years to see what they're making. All the games releasing soon from the new studios are either multiplatform or exclusive to playstation, lol.

Ryuu96 said: Pls don't acquire Ubisoft.

If I were the decision. maker at Amazon, or google, I wouldn't try to compete with physical consoles. I'd acquire Ubisoft or any other publisher and let them work normally like they always did. They will still releases their games on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC. The only difference would be the exclusivity of those titles for our own cloud service. The franchises will keep on growing on the current huge userbase and when the cloud business is mature enough in 5-10 years, I have a huge advantage. 

I would have this advantage over Microsoft and Sony. Amazon might force Microsoft hand to decide whether they want to focus on a console or a cloud service. Microsoft will risk losing both if they decided to fight both fronts. 

When Amazon buy a publisher and go with that strategy, they won't lose money. They can actually make more money with the enormous reach they have around the world. When Microsoft buy a publisher and decide that the games won't be released on PlayStation, then they lose more than half of the value of the company they just acquired.

What’s even 2021?

Psychonauts 2
Grounded
Forza
Halo
Hellblade 2 (possibly)

This is an amazing way to secure Japanese content on Xbox. think of how many Japanese devs there are out there that develop these small titles for 3DS/Vita/Switch, if MS shows them love and support those studios will see Xbox as legitimate and welcoming platform where they can develop their games on.

MS need to put ID Tech on Gamestack ASAP too.

Speaking of Japan MS needs to quickly realize that Tango Gameworks could very well be the key to expand their presence in the Japanese gaming world, Shinji Mikami is one the most respected Japanese devs of all time and still has connections in the game dev scene, he was also the guy responsible for the Infamous Capcom 5 deal as the head of Capcom production studio 4.

MS could expand Tango to have multiple development teams and maybe even a local publishing arm to secure Japanese Exclusives and putting Mikami as the Head Honcho. It's possible that he could even convince Platinum Games to jump over to MS since he was with them since the Capcom days and was a founding member of Platinum too.

Amazon is the real competition in the long run and only Microsoft seems to be equipped to atleast remain marketshare whenever Amazon buys itself in big time.

Really hope it's Kiwami 3.

Phil Spencer saying the P word.....  

Nice pic.twitter.com/uyOniPP5XO

— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) September 24, 2020

He is repeatedly doubling down on this, I don’t think that he would be risking his reputation on something this big without him knowing something.

Either way this better be true and I hope that Phil makes the right choice.