Microsoft has a history of buying new studios, but how long do they last?
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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group
Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform
Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal
I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.
Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."
You can't make this crap up lol
Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base
In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release
“Of the 10 studios we profiled that Microsoft has acquired over the past 20 years, five have been closed, two are still around but separated, and three are still active members of the Microsoft family.”
I don’t like those odds. Having a 3/10 chance of thriving under Microsoft doesn’t sound comforting.
In fact of those three remaining devs that didn’t try to separate from Microsoft or got shut down.
- Rare turned into a shadow of its former self
- BigPark works more on Microsoft apps than games
- Mojang still has yet to show it isn’t a one trick pony
Lord only knows how this will affect Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Compulsion, or Undead Labs in the long term. I wish them the best though.
Sony has shut down just as many studios, with Zipper Interactive and Evolution Studios being the two most recent.
Here we go trying to make ms into the devil again like Sony havnt ever done the same.
I mean it has taken a very long time for Sony to gather the remarkable studios they have but do not forget about the fodder that was put into the pit of doom also and there have been alot along the way.
remember this is business as much as it our enjoyable gaming industry and if these studios are not pulling there weight they are dispatched as if it were head first on the chopping block like medieval days.
These studios have to work hard to keep the attention of the console developers they are under and it's a pretty poor survival rate now days but everyone goes off surprised.
These dev teams do take special kind of nurturing as if they are a baby that needs feeding all the way till they are grown to adult where they can stand on there two feet, it just so happens Sony managed to do this more successful than ms. MS can learn this as well and like many of you said it does requires X amount of money thrown at them, patience and creative freedom as well as risk but it can pay off but not always.
Remember exclusives are a risky business and only one out of a good amount get serious sales numbers, Sony have had a good few games sell well but there have been alot of games which havnt too. You also have alot more thirds being made than firsts and it would take all the console developers to change that state of play for first to over come thirds.
I do love how the Sony side or the haters gave ms stick constantly now they did what the fanboys and haters thought they wouldn't do, the new lame crap thing coming out of there mouths is these studios will be dead soon or they won't make anything decent. I mean seriously get off your high horses and stop being a bunch of arrogant idiots before making yet more assumption you will most likely get wrong for the millionth time. You bunch of Muppets do know no one is interested in the negativity, the hate or your fanboy crap, all were interested in is what these studios will be getting on with and what they are doing just the same as what every other devs out there are developing, same as sony and as nintendo.
Personally I think we will see some great games, there maybe one or two that make there first game and it will be on par but that's just it isn't it these studios could take a while to shine or they could be instant hits either way good job MS and welcome aboard to the new talented dev teams..