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WB up for sale
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Umbasaborne
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Please dont cancel hogwarts, i need that game
Topher
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Apologies.
ChorizoPicozo
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I mean... it is also a very different bussines as well. I dunno if all of those TV/Film executives are going to be able to stomach AAA game development.
Fart Knight
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Salty Popsicle
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Once companies are aware of the blank checks that parties like Microsoft or Tencent have at their disposal and their willingness to buy, most anything becomes available for sale. It wasn't too long ago that Ubisoft and WB were stating that they were uninterested in being bought out, but money talks and it's very persuasive.
Topher
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ChorizoPicozo
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that game is basically done. Rocksteady's in the other hand.
Pilgrimzero
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Yet Konami continues their death grip on their gaming properties they do nothing with.
Salty Popsicle
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If Sony offers $4 billion, Microsoft would offer $8 billion and end any further need for negotiations.
DeepEnigma
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onnextflix5
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Unless they give up game rights to batman etc. No one is paying that kind of money with no ip.
Stuart360
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Would anyone really care about that Suicide Squad game?. I mean i know its Rocksteady so the game could end up good but even if its amazing, does anyone actually care?.
Salty Popsicle
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The tweet reads as if WB is looking to sell their studios piece-meal and not all at once. If this is the case, Microsoft can buy two or three studios without issue.
ChorizoPicozo
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who knows? they take so damn long to make games..
remember_spinal
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Rivet
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It's not the way it works here. MS can't buy another publisher while the FTC still decides about Activision deal.
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Salty Popsicle
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They can if WB decides to sell their studios individually and not the whole publishing house in one package.
remember_spinal
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MrMephistoX
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Wait just WB games without the whole of WB? If it’s a carve out of WB studios and the DC and Netherrealm IP including film rights that seems more like a Disney level or MS acquisition not something Sony could really afford. The IP from DC to Lonney Toons is lucrative but just the studios that made the games that no longer own the IP is still cool but it would just be RockSteady and Netherealm and a few others that churn out games using WB IP.
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Rivet
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Just WB Games, and it could be sold studio by studio...
Stuart360
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So Microsoft couldnt agree a deal 'in principle' while this Activision thing is going on?, then finish the deal officially when the Activision deal has been sorted either way?.
I honestly dont know how it works. I would of thought Microsoft would be able to agree deals in principle with other companies though.
ChuckeRearmed
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Microsoft will get NRS 100%. Everything else is up in the air. Microsoft has a lot of former WB execs and Matt Booty was Midway's CEO too. Not to mention Ed Boon being friends with both Matt and Phil.
MS announced ABK while having other deals in progress and since the announcement they acquired a bunch of companies too.
They can. Nothing stops Microsoft from that. ABK deal is 70b deal, WB with 4-5b would be nothing.
MS announced ABK while having other deals in progress and since the announcement they acquired a bunch of companies too.
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onnextflix5
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They cant do shit until acti deal closes, only small studios, or it will threaten the acti deal. That rules out ms if wb needs to sell asap.
Mister Wolf
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Time for the WB to bend the knee.
onesvenus
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Is there some law I can read about this?
AFAIK Microsoft has bought multiple companies while other deals were finalizing before
nominedomine
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Seems like a terrible time to sell, why not wait for Rocksteady to release their game first? Are they afraid it's going to flop?
Hogwarts Legacy looks promising but looking at the list of studios I'm not impressed at all.
If I was a platform holder I would not want to be associated with NetherRealm and Mortal Kombat at all, that franchise got stuck in the 90s hard and what was once funny and edgy became grotesque and tasteless.
Rocksteady makes sense for Sony even without the Batman IP because Sony has their partnership with Marvel going, but if they had to acquire them all, I don't see it making sense.
Hogwarts Legacy looks promising but looking at the list of studios I'm not impressed at all.
If I was a platform holder I would not want to be associated with NetherRealm and Mortal Kombat at all, that franchise got stuck in the 90s hard and what was once funny and edgy became grotesque and tasteless.
Rocksteady makes sense for Sony even without the Batman IP because Sony has their partnership with Marvel going, but if they had to acquire them all, I don't see it making sense.
I agree, Batman going exclusive would be pretty cool, maybe Phil could also fund a Superman game and a Green Lantern game.
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Rivet
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Good question. I don't know if it's possible.
Craig of War
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You still believe in that fake news lol
BusierDonkey
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If Phil Spencer even opens up Amazon on his phone before the Activision deal goes through he'll go straight to jail.
ReBurn
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They can. They probably won't.
ChorizoPicozo
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Or bend over.
We literally have Schreier's article saying that the regulator has gotten stricter and Microsoft won't close the deal as easily as it did with Bethesda.
Do you really think that they are going to risk such a huge asset even for a second for the sake of a couple of studios that already have games in development for all platforms?
R3claimer117
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There is no law against this at all whoever is saying this is just not informed at all. Microsoft can continue to buy as much as they want to some will go through and some might fail but nothing is stopping them from making purchases or buying other studios while they wait to close the activision deal.
Ghost of Caelid
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MS only cause they need super hero games of their own. But probably not them off the fact they seen as monopolizing rn. So imma go with Nintendo.
SLB1904
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Too late
SoloKingRobert
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I think Microsoft will just acquire the studios, it fits their strategy, expecially with Xbox Game Pass.
DukeNukem00
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of course they can. What you are reading here are fans hoping they wont get another buy. But of course they can buy anything they want.
ChuckeRearmed
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There is no law. People are just saying nonsense just like usual
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Do you understand that Microsoft will have to announce a buyout of the studios from another conglomerate if the deal goes through? Do you really think that while the regulators are checking Activation, they will abruptly close their eyes and not notice yet another cunning maneuver by Satya Nadella? Don't be an idiot
ChuckeRearmed
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So? Any deal above 100m is gonna be checked. In case of WB - without IPs especially (NRS will go with MK though) - it is just a bunch of studios. Embracer bought 40-60 last year or something
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Kdad
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So SONY offer 200 billion and Microsoft bankrupts itself leveraging 400 billion?
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Craig of War
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They will they have said many time that they are always on the look out for more studios
WB Games is huge and they have some great Studios and plus they were intrested in WB before they bought Activision
Report: Microsoft interested in buying Warner Bros. games division
Microsoft is reportedly interested in buying WB Games, but it probably won't spend $4 billion.
www.tweaktown.com
Where are you taking it?
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