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Gonna be tough when they own literally all the gaming studios now

the_snooze 1y ago
They own a bunch of AAA gaming studios, which have been producing flop after multimillion-dollar flop. All that while random indie darlings produce high quality cross-platform hits for a fraction of the budget.
- pjmlp 1y ago
  True, and while quite sad for everyone involved, they had one of the best years in gaming, with all their gaming divisions combined.
maxsilver 1y ago
They just fired a lot of the gaming studios they used to own. (Tango, Arkane), and cancelled most of their major upcoming projects (Everwild, Perfect Dark, the new MMO, etc) And - while there are rare examples otherwise (like iD software), many of their studios haven't made a well received game in over a decade. It's not necessarily a great thing for the industry, but Microsoft leaving gaming entirely would not be that terribly tough. If anything, it would probably have the least amount of impact now, then it would have at any other time since 2001.
- staticman2 1y ago
  Microsoft bought the Call of Duty studios for a lot of money and likes to say they are succeeding at video games by pointing to Call of Duty revenue in a vacuum without counting the cost to aquire Activision. They certainly aren't going to stop releasing Call of Duty games.
lupusreal 1y ago
Not any of the good ones though. The long-tail of game developers are where most PC gamers are at these days, the AAA slop have large numbers on a per-game basis, but aren't very large compared to the whole gaming market.
chmod775 1y ago
Not even close? Tencent and Sony likely have (indirectly) more game developers on their payroll, and even the top 3 (MS, Sony, Tencent) combined aren't that much of the market. Nobody seems to control even 10% of the 500 billion dollar video game market.[1] Also note that for MS and Sony this revenue may also contain sales of third-party games through their stores. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_video_game_companies_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_video_game_com...

They own a bunch of AAA gaming studios, which have been producing flop after multimillion-dollar flop. All that while random indie darlings produce high quality cross-platform hits for a fraction of the budget.

pjmlp 1y ago
True, and while quite sad for everyone involved, they had one of the best years in gaming, with all their gaming divisions combined.

maxsilver 1y ago

They just fired a lot of the gaming studios they used to own. (Tango, Arkane), and cancelled most of their major upcoming projects (Everwild, Perfect Dark, the new MMO, etc) And - while there are rare examples otherwise (like iD software), many of their studios haven't made a well received game in over a decade. It's not necessarily a great thing for the industry, but Microsoft leaving gaming entirely would not be that terribly tough. If anything, it would probably have the least amount of impact now, then it would have at any other time since 2001.

staticman2 1y ago
Microsoft bought the Call of Duty studios for a lot of money and likes to say they are succeeding at video games by pointing to Call of Duty revenue in a vacuum without counting the cost to aquire Activision. They certainly aren't going to stop releasing Call of Duty games.

lupusreal 1y ago

Not any of the good ones though. The long-tail of game developers are where most PC gamers are at these days, the AAA slop have large numbers on a per-game basis, but aren't very large compared to the whole gaming market.

chmod775 1y ago

Not even close? Tencent and Sony likely have (indirectly) more game developers on their payroll, and even the top 3 (MS, Sony, Tencent) combined aren't that much of the market. Nobody seems to control even 10% of the 500 billion dollar video game market.[1] Also note that for MS and Sony this revenue may also contain sales of third-party games through their stores. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_video_game_companies_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_video_game_com...