Microsoft’s CEO say it’s ‘doubling down’ on being a game producer and publisher | VGC

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, you don’t spend 70 billion on a market sector you’re going to deemphasize.

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *70 billion this year alone.

    2021: Zenimax for 7.5B
    2018-19: Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, Obsidian Entertainment, inXile Entertainment, Double Fine Productions (all unknown amounts)
    Earlier: Rare for 375M, Mojang for 2.5B

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    • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh shit, Double Fine too? Psychonauts 3 here we go!!!

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• Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  By basically just buying it existing publishers?

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s how it works now. You can’t get results in a quarter or two by spinning up your own production company.

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  • Knusper@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Microsoft has rarely innovated themselves…

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think Windows was built in house but on top of DOS which Bill Gates bought off someone

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• ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now let’s all pretend that MS and Phil aren’t buying up publishers to have another monopoly full of Xbox exclusives. Tbf though, I think Sony started this whole exclusives thing and really pushed hard for it. They do, however, seem to be relenting now by publishing their games to steam.

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sony buys up studios for their talent not their IP. Bungie/Destiny is the only exception. They have a strong history of empowering their developers to release better games than they did before.

    Microsoft is the opposite. They buy up studios / IPs and run them into the ground.

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    • RolyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can’t agree more. I don’t think there’s a studio under MS that’s done better under their leadership/portfolio than they’d done prior to their acquisition. The studios created to shepherd Xbox franchises that original studios move on from generally have never matched the highs previously seen either.

      I also don’t appreciate them hoovering up franchises, via acquisitions whilst failing to develop much new that’s if any note. All it does is condemn a growing back catalogue to mediocrity or have them disappear into the vault.

      Sony aren’t perfect but their studios tend to produce top tier games that look and feel like they’re a tier above most, making the most of their “exclusivity”. Most (all?) their major releases are their own franchises developed in house too, and it feels like there’s a steadier turn out of new, quality IP to boot.

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tomato/Tomato. They get the IP and keep them exclusive. Sony shouldn’t get a pass just because their games are better.

      The “exclusives-game” these companies play is bad for the consumer and Sony plays it just as hard as anyone else.

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• elouboub@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I bet you they'll start pulling their games from stores in 2-3 years or release new ones exclusively to their own. The games will be made as difficult to run in wine/proton as possible. Probably they'll introduce some new graphics layer that's windows only and since they own huge game publishers, they don't have to worry about any other platform ever.

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let’s offer a sacrifice to GabeN, preventively.

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• Xanvial@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  By publishing to PS5?

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• Aquila@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then why nuke stadia? F for doubt

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  • dsemy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stadia is Google

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    • Aquila@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lmao I’m retarded

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  • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There goes Microsoft, killing another Google product smh

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll never forgive Allstate for killing off Play Music.

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