Microsoft Won't Announce Any Studio Acquisitions At TGS, Sega Or Otherwise [Update]

@walbo: they might be looking for more but they ain’t spending billions again. Sega is worth at least a few billion if Minecraft was worth 2.5bn and King Mobile was worth 5.9bn. MS buys anything else big the industry will start to step in. MS has tried to shit with windows and got busted. MS has bought a lot of studios and buying more like Zenimax would be have them starting to corner the market. There is only a few really big 3rd party companies. I think MS overpaid for Zenimax. Especially since WB was going for almost half that at 4.5bn rumored. But I think Zenimax was bought to help Xbox get revenue. Spencer can say all day it’s not about the money it’s about the games and that he isn’t touching Zenimax. But those are all pr bs. Buying Zenimax is like buying WB, EA, or Activision. You don’t buy a company that makes many titles that make a shit ton of money on many platforms to just add games to game pass. Zenimax will be 3rd party with MS getting timed exclusives or exclusive games here and there. Hines said that Bethesda would make and publish its own games still. That Xbox was there to help them grow. So I don’t see Xbox or MS spending any more big money. Sega or Capcom will probably see Nintendo and/or Sony step in. Freaking Capcom helped developer the Switch.

@face76: na nowhere near that level yet plus ms are going to put these games out everywhere they can they aren't a closed system like sony anymore. At the most they will be 1 year timed exclucive to xbox pc.

@Barighm: Sony’s Game Division make up a big chunk of Sony’s revenue, Sony needs to spend less so the revenue from the Game Division is more.

@thegreatchomp: Oh good, somebody said it. I thought I missed the memo that Sony was suddenly a mom and pop company.

@thegreatchomp: They have the money but buying Rockstar would be crazy expensive. We're talking about a developer who made the most successful piece of entertainment in history. A developer who's games sell like hotcakes no matter what it is. Last I checked Sony was like a $90 billion company? Rockstar would likely be like $15 billion or even more. Or maybe I'm grossly overestimating. Point is, Sony would have to throw away a HUGE chunk of their worth towards it. I don;t see it happening.

@thegreatchomp: Revenue does not equal cash reserves. SONY is not exactly cash flush, regardless of the PS4's success. SONY can in no way afford such a purchase.

@thegreatchomp: Playstation could probably cover the sale on Playstation revenue alone, but it would take a few years, and, like Bethesda, would not be worth becoming exclusive due to the massive market on other platforms. It's just not worth it.

@Maize84: You're an idiot if you think that is why the Dreamcast failed. The people who did that was minimal and had little effect upon their bottom dollar. It was more the idiotic decisions by Sega of Japan and SONY's aggressiveness in keeping certain franchises from Sega.

@Maize84: Sega should have have secretly put rootkit on their Dreamcast video games creating a backdoor so hackers can Trojan horse consumer’s Dreamcast consoles like Sony did in an attempt to stop music piracy on computers. Stupid Sega not taking more invasive action on consumers privacy an attempt to stop piracy...