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  • JayS 🦄
    Jan 18, 2021

    Google and Amazon about to ruin gaming.

    gamesradar.com/microsoft-google-amazon-buyouts-report

    A new report claims Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are all actively seeking studio acquisitions.

    The report comes from Brad Sams, a journalist with a track record of accurately reporting Microsoft-related news ahead of time. "I’ve been hearing a lot of conversations behind closed doors about acquisitions in the industry. There’s a lot of moving things going on right now," Sams says in the video below. “ It’s hard to see which companies are going to get snatched up and by what vendors… but I can tell you there are some big industry names out there being approached by Microsoft included, but then you also have Amazon, and you also have Google," he continues.

    Sams goes on to add that Sony is very much part of the group pursuing studio acquisitions, but nowhere near as aggressively so as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. The journalist also names EA as a publisher going after new developers to acquire, as with the recent Codemasters deal.

    2020 saw the blockbuster purchase of Bethesda by Microsoft, in a move that saw the latter acquire a number of Bethesda-owned studios, including Arkane and Tango Gameworks, among others. More recently, Nintendo purchase Luigi's Mansion 3 developer Next Level Games earlier this month, a noteworthy move from a publisher that typically holds off on acquisitions.

    According to Sams, we've hardly seen the end of studio acquisitions by big-name publishers. If the claims are accurate, we could be seeing some big-name purchases throughout 2021.

  • Jan 18, 2021
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    need these companies to be split up and burned

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    imagine a company like Naughty Dog being bought by Amazon and then half way through the game they try to offer you Nathan Drake clothes with 1 day shipping

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    None of these bother me because all the games from the studios will buy will still go to other platforms. And I don’t see them buying them really doing much to the actual product Google and Amazon probably just buying to make sure games are on their cloud gaming platforms.

    Sony is the only one that would keep the games on just PlayStation and not even release on PC and if they do it’ll be years later.

  • Hi-C 🦌
    Jan 18, 2021
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    Gaming heading in a pretty s***ty direction just like all forms of entertainment. This just another example of worse things to come tbh

  • Jan 18, 2021
    shane

    imagine a company like Naughty Dog being bought by Amazon and then half way through the game they try to offer you Nathan Drake clothes with 1 day shipping

    Most of the video game studios people care about aren’t gonna be acquired by them tbh because they already owned by another mega Corp lmao

  • Jan 18, 2021

    Someone buy rockstar games to stop them developing new gta 5 online stuff

  • Jan 18, 2021
    shane

    need these companies to be split up and burned

    My first thought lmao need to bust ALLLL these big tech companies up into itty bitty pieces

  • Jan 18, 2021
    Hi-C

    Gaming heading in a pretty s***ty direction just like all forms of entertainment. This just another example of worse things to come tbh

    All because greedy rich people are taking over industries. Back in the day, video games were made by geeks that wanted to make dope s***, now a days its all about the bottom line and churning out stuff as fast as possible. The people in charge of game releases and content don't even play games

    Same with music.

  • Jan 18, 2021
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    SBMike

    None of these bother me because all the games from the studios will buy will still go to other platforms. And I don’t see them buying them really doing much to the actual product Google and Amazon probably just buying to make sure games are on their cloud gaming platforms.

    Sony is the only one that would keep the games on just PlayStation and not even release on PC and if they do it’ll be years later.

    naaaa this is not true, Sony not getting Bethesda games anymore lmao

  • Jan 18, 2021

    Luckily im a nintendo fan so ill never have to worry

  • Jan 18, 2021
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    SBMike

    None of these bother me because all the games from the studios will buy will still go to other platforms. And I don’t see them buying them really doing much to the actual product Google and Amazon probably just buying to make sure games are on their cloud gaming platforms.

    Sony is the only one that would keep the games on just PlayStation and not even release on PC and if they do it’ll be years later.

    Lol this your bread & butter

  • Jan 18, 2021
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    Man, i hope these f***ers dont get a hold on Ubisoft. Leave it alone.

  • Jan 18, 2021
    UIP

    naaaa this is not true, Sony not getting Bethesda games anymore lmao

    I'm more talking about PC. Microsoft releases games on PC and Xbox if it's exclusive. Sony holds it to just PlayStation.

  • Jan 18, 2021
    World1

    Lol this your bread & butter

    ?

    I want to play video games on my PC.

  • Jan 18, 2021

    Just stay the f*** away from Fromsoft

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    UIP

    naaaa this is not true, Sony not getting Bethesda games anymore lmao

    Starfield day 1 gamepass
    EOS 6 day 1 on gamepass

  • Jan 18, 2021

    Stadia exclusive games

  • Jan 18, 2021
    flipflops_

    Man, i hope these f***ers dont get a hold on Ubisoft. Leave it alone.

    Ubisoft needs a complete refresh bruh.

  • Jan 18, 2021
    Legacy

    Starfield day 1 gamepass
    EOS 6 day 1 on gamepass

  • Legacy

    Starfield day 1 gamepass
    EOS 6 day 1 on gamepass

    we eatin good

  • Jan 19, 2021
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    UIP

    naaaa this is not true, Sony not getting Bethesda games anymore lmao

    People still believe Microsoft about to share with Sony they slowly backtracking on their initial statement everytime they get asked

  • Jan 19, 2021
    Default

    People still believe Microsoft about to share with Sony they slowly backtracking on their initial statement everytime they get asked

    I could see 2021 games releasing on PS 5 too.

    Probably only Wolfenstein 3 lol

  • Jan 19, 2021
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    Am I the only one who doesn't see how this is any different from what's been going on for years? How is this any different from EA and Microsoft buying and owning game development studios?