Microsoft's long-rumoured plan to acquire SEGA never came to pass because Bill Gates was sceptical the company had "enough muscle" to stop Sony, according to the company's former VP of Windows Sales.
Uncover the spending behind Xbox's Game Pass subscription. Discover how Microsoft invests a billion dollars annually in securing third-party games for the service.
Good.
Now that you´re releasing games and making big money from every gaming platform, you should double that amount and give us even more day one third party games!
I like how they twist cannibalising game sales into "invests".
No lifetime sales with MS, they'll F-up gaming the same as streaming services have done to the movie industry and it's workforce.
we know this, we have known this since last year.
this is not new or news.
Phil Spencer has sent a letter out to employees informing them that 650 jobs would be cut from Microsoft's gaming division.
The original story is from IGN as they are the ones who got the memo.
https://www.ign.com/article...
Still sucks!
A combined $80 billion spent on consolidating a massive part of the industry, thousands fired all to line the pockets of the already wealthy and turn the gaming industry into a rental service.
FU MS.
Not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Brazil we have a say that goes like this:
'May the last one to leave please turn off the lights'
What the heck is MS even doing right now?
Yakuza Wars, registered by SEGA in August, is not an action RPG or open-world game, but a mobile strategy game revealed on social media.
I guess Bill was more of a Mario kid. I would have bought Sega without questions.
Thank God Ms never bought Sega.
Personally I think he was short sighted he wanted a one hit K.O win against Sony but as in fighting games there's no one hit win in real life if bill would had purchased Sega Microsoft would have a better chance to bested both Sony and Nintendo but that's history now and there's no chance of Sega been sold now or in the next generation . Mark my words Sega will rise again for the generation after next with a new console .
super glad that didn't happen.
I love reading/watching about these kind of back room deals/decisions. You never realize just how close some of these seemingly crazy buyouts/mergers come to be.