>Microsoft is actually pretty good at games This is the second thread I've seen this take and I'm really curious why it's a popular statement. They completely

>Microsoft is actually pretty good at games This is the second thread I've seen this take and I'm really curious why it's a popular statement. They completely dropped the ball with 343 Studios and Halo. Ruining their own tentpole franchise should ding them a few points. They haven't done much with Minecraft. Apparently games titled 'tell me why' and 'bleeding edge' were published by Microsoft in 2020, the latter being a multiplayer title abandoned 10 months after release. The Goldeneye remake was mediocre. Crackdown 3 took forever and was mediocre. They release so few games I am already in 2019 on their wikipedia page. And this is all after they've spent huge sums of money acquiring studios and publishing rights for games already in development. They've certainly had some solid releases with games like Psychonauts 2 and the Forza Horizon series, and I'm thankful that their money got us Pentiment. But especially when it comes to the AAA titles you'd expect from a market leader with their own hardware platform, I don't personally see how Microsoft is that good at making games. TBH, from my armchair expertise I might also agree that this acquisition isn't going to give MS unfair control over the market - but mainly because I don't expect MS could effectively manage Activision.