You need to either nurture newly born studios, buy them while they're young and relatively cheap due to not being famous or lure existing developers with big sums of money so they will develop exclusively for you.

Buying something like EA would probably mean an aggressive takeover, since they would reject being bought. And afterwards, the enormous money loss from not selling multiplatform games would nullify the purpose of buying such a big gun for exclusive games making. The value of that company would also decrease immensely.

I'm sure they could buy a few mid-size studios here and there. Bungie, From Software, Rocksteady, etc. But then they would need to convince players to buy their console for those exclusives games, which is hard if the following isn't large or enough of a fan. It can happen, but they would be bleeding money until it started being a profitable endeavour.

So, really. The solution is to nurture your own studios. But that takes patience, creativity and money over a long period of time. Hence why they bought their way into gaming, to set a quick foothold.

Microsoft wouldn't work with level 5 at all cuz level 5 was making a xbox1 exclusive title forgot da name of it and microsoft canceled it ban in the day and I thought microsoft own the ip of gears of war but anyways their many studios that microsoft can go to me personaly think if microsoft were 2 buy a studio I think it would be epic and their get chair entertainment makers of shadow complex cuz epic owns chair I would want that to happen but anyways I would wish mgs would change and get studios it would help them in different regions and for us gamers and fans

And besides rocksteady is a part of eidos and it's now new owner square

I heard about that Level 5 project. It was a Xbox1-exclusive MMORPG I believe. Microsoft lost patience with them because Level 5 didn't have much MMO experience and there were setbacks. Level 5 blamed the breakdown on Microsoft not understanding Japanese culture and way of doing business but who knows what really went on back then. Itagaki and Sakaguchi were very pleased with their relationship with Microsoft so the fault could just be on Level 5 IMO. Still, if Level 5 couldn't do the job, Microsoft deserves part of the blame for hiring them. Microsoft should have known prior to hiring them whether they could have done the job to satisfaction or not.

I don't see why M$ shouldn't try again with Level 5. But this time they should collaborate on a game that Level 5 has more experience with (like a single-player RPG or a non-massively multiplayer online rpg like WKC) so that they don't run into the same issue again. It's been a long time since that incident so unless Level 5 is the type to hold a grudge, I don't see why not. And with Microsoft having more experience with Japanese developers these days compared to back then, things may be different now.

Yea true their disagreements could just be water under the bridge but who knows do you think microsoft presence as the console of rpgs and jprps will this help them further in the furture with japense developers for the next console like in 2007 capcom had used to think microsoft 360 was the console that was goin dominate they use to thought and for the incoming years and for the 720 or whateva they call it will microsoft have more studios or will they have the same plan and buy time exclusives next generation