What are those studios doing?
Ones making Gears games, they're basically what Epic games used to be before 10 cent bought their stock.
The other makes the 2nd best selling video game of all time, which this time next year will be The best selling videogame of all time.
If viewed in a vacuum acquiring the two biggest new first party IPs of last generation (and in Minecrafts case, this generation as well) would be considered 'above average'.
If viewed in comparison to Nintendo and Sony...we have seen no acquisitions. We have seen no AAA studios built. Sony made a VR studio that has released no games thus far and they made Pixelopus who made a poorly reviewed twinstick shooter.
Those are 2 things that Microsoft should not be chasing. VR because its a dud and Indie games because theres 1000+ indie games releasing on Xbox every year....a vast majority are exclusive already. They shouldn't be building studios to make budget games.
It should be blockbusters or nothing.
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