A list of suggested acquisitions from Microsoft

[the-pi-guy]

SEGA gaming studios from SEGA Sammy, Thunderful, Supergiant Games, Niantic, Playrix, Zynga, Bungie, IO Interactive, and Scopely are named as pitches from Spencer to senior leadership.



The Verge

[Legend]

IO interactive could have been a good fit. Small studio with a great gamepass game.

[the-pi-guy]

Looking at this list, I'm really hoping that Sony still has strong plans for expansion...

[BananaKing]

IO interactive could have been a good fit. Small studio with a great gamepass game.

I really don't want them to buy IOI because I recently played hitman and loved it.

They also have a Bond game on development, which can turn out to be amazing.

But they are definitely a studio worth buying as I feel they have so much potential

[the-pi-guy]

Housemarque too.

[Legend]

Housemarque too.

lol gotta get those devs that ported Angry Birds to xbox 360! (that's the last game housemarque worked on that released on xbox)

[kitler53]

keep your motherfucking hands off of larian. 

[the-pi-guy]

lol gotta get those devs that ported Angry Birds to xbox 360! (that's the last game housemarque worked on that released on xbox)

[the-pi-guy]

So MS started with a list of ~100 developers + ~10 (small) publishers, then filtered the list down by a variety of factors such as:

- whether they made a new IP
- whether they cater to a new audience
- whether they are expensive

This list of 17 developers is the outcome.


Some of the developers that didn't make the cut:
CD Projekt
Ember Lab (Kena developers)
From Software
Gearbox
Hello Games
Team Cherry

[kitler53]

I still wish Sony would grab ember labs.  oh what those guys could do with a AAA budget would be awesome inspiring.