Runa216 said: You clearly haven't been paying attention. I've said repeatedly that acquiring studios is good for the company and should result in success and exclusives...but that in the 20-ish years of them doing it, the best they've done is Rare. you know, that company who used to be a mover and a shaker in the industry but is now mostly a joke and only had one 'hit' over the past 20 years...a hit that was critically panned and hated as a garbage game for almost a year after its launch due to lack of content. 23 studios is good in theory. In practice it's done nothing for the company. It's done nothing to attract gamers. It's done nothing to appeal to me or many others. |
It takes time to build and release a game.
In the last couple of years Microsoft has acquired:
* inXile Entertainment.
- Wasteland.
- Bards Tale.
* Obsidian Entertainment.
- Outerworlds.
- Pillars of Eternity.
* Ninja Theory.
- Hellblade.
- Devil may cry.
* Undead Labs.
- State of Decay.
* Compulsion Games.
- Contrast.
- We Happy Few.
* Playground Games. (Although was a MS developer before purchase, we can kick this off this list.)
- Forza Horizon.
- Fable.
* Bethesda Softworks.
- Elder Scrolls.
- Fallout.
- Starfield.
* id Software.
- Doom.
- Rage.
- Quake.
* Arkane Studios.
- Dishonored.
- Arx Fatalis.
* Machine Games.
- Wolfenstein.
* Tango Gameworks.
- The Evil Within.
* Zenimax Online.
- Elderscrolls Online.
* Roundhouse Studios. (Former devs of Prey.)
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* Alpha Dog Studios.
- Mobile games.
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Older acquisitions before 2018 was:
* Mojang.
- Minecraft.
* Twisted Pixel Games.
- Splosion Man.
- The Maw.
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I think Microsoft's spending spree (And there are more acquisitions coming!) definitely changes things significantly, the same criticisms that "Xbox has no games" that was leveraged during the Xbox 360/Xbox One era is probably not going to be applicable going forwards.
And if it ends up being a criticism, Microsoft will just likely buy more developers/publishers.
I don't think we can enter generation 9 with the same mindset it's going to be a carbon copy of prior generations, the acquisition list really does say differently.
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