CyberPanda
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Phil Spencer: "It would be nice to buy a Japanese studio"
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Phil Spencer: "I think it would be nice if we found an Asian studio, in particular a Japanese studio, to add [to our studios]"
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Bolivar687
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Shameless.
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Honey Bunny
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Please don't...
MiyazakiHatesKojima
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私たちはxboxをブランドとして尊重しません。
Punished Miku
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Could have helped out Valhalla while they suffered and mortgaged their houses to finish Devil's Third. If they had any help they'd be a Platinum Games rival right now. Multiple top Team Ninja and Sega fighting games people were there and THQ collapsing destroyed them. And Itagaki was the most loyal xbox dev in Japan.
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Sakaguchi was playing ball with them too.
SlashBringingHasher
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they cant its owned already by kodakawa
if they did. Sony fans would be like "meh, its not like
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CyberPanda
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Was it shameless when Sony bought Naughty Dog?
Was it shameless when Nintendo bought Monolith Soft?
This is a business, and these companies want our money. They will do whatever it takes to get the most customers possible, and will buy whoever they see fit to increase their user base, and gaming libraries.
Instead of funding Scalebound, they could have made Itagaki a studio, and he could've made a AAA game instead of the crap that was Devil's Third. He was a great asset at Team Ninja, and when he left they went downhill. I know Devil's Third wasn't a good game, but they were suffering financially like you said.
You just copied and pasted this from Google translate didn't you?
Now he's making mobile games I think.
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DunDunDunpachi
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Phil will underdeliver.
Have you fools not already lived through three Xbox generations? Japan gets shafted, every time. The only glimmer was Microsoft helping to get some shmups out of arcades and on the 360.
Have you fools not already lived through three Xbox generations? Japan gets shafted, every time. The only glimmer was Microsoft helping to get some shmups out of arcades and on the 360.
nikolino840
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What about swery? Yeah happened a mess with d4... but the good Life come in game pass at day One
HeresJohnny
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They’re trying to check those boxes. Now it’s the “ACQUIRE ASIAN STUDIO” box.
Bruno_Arrais85
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It's nice to want things.
Mochilador
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Buy Platinum and make Scalebound Revengeance.
Danjin44
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I'm sorry but no thank you! I rather see P* make games for all platforms.
I had a dream... Microsoft buys FromSoftware and makes them put an easy mode in all their games.
or is that a nightmare?
P.S. Phil, I think it would be nice if you fixed the fuckingGames for Window Live Store for the poor saps that got sucked in yet again, you know instead of releasing (re-releasing or whatever they got now) like the 16th xbox client. And tell Nadella Microsoft should be issuing a notice to all those poor UWP developer sap, best practice is just to rip the band-aid off all in one go.
or is that a nightmare?
P.S. Phil, I think it would be nice if you fixed the fucking
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Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Get Itagaki on the phone and give him a new team, have him work on DOA and Ninja Gaiden spiritual successors.
I feel though that if the 360 flopped in Japan there's literally nothing they could do, Japanese gamers simply wont support an American company.
I feel though that if the 360 flopped in Japan there's literally nothing they could do, Japanese gamers simply wont support an American company.
Porcile
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That sounds like a nice way to fuck up a studio, Phil. Xbox has no relevence at all in Japan. Only a desperate company would be crazy enough to sell themselves to make exclusive products for Microsoft. That would screw themselves out of an entire market, and their home market too at that.
Mista
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The 360 also had great JRPG titles outside of arcade
Porcile
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Except those RPGs had no long term benefits for Microsofts presence in Japan, and no long term benefits for the companies who made them, assuming we are talking about Mistwalker.
Mista
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True, thats why I want the relationship back. Especially after Xbox new direction which is caring about SP games
If Microsoft called him tomorrow and said "here's some money, make us a jRPG for Scarlet" he'd dump those mobile games and get to work.
Last Prime
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brap
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Remember all the Naughty Dog games not on Sony platforms? Remember all the Monolith Soft games not on nintendo platforms? Me either.
luminaire28
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This kind of thing is exactly what i feared when MS first entered the console market. They have been buying up devs over the past year, devs that were before that third party and made games for all platforms for the most part. It would've been different if it were devs that were known for working mostly with them.
Tiamat2san
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Buy Konami, do a castlevania and a silent hill, and and a parodius !
Werewolf Jones
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360 was absolute flames for that push to break Japan back in the late 2000s.
BUY MISTWALKER YOU FUCKERS, LET GOOCH MAKE LOST ODYSSEY II.
Mista
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LISTEN TO THIS MAN
tryDEATH
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I am not sure how it would be perceived being bough out by a Western company.
Either start another Initiative studio of respected developers that are spread across smaller studios, or just acquire a few smaller studios that merge and are rebranded as a brand new studio with the licenses of those studio's past work under one roof. Just establishing themselves could play a big role, because if Xbox ends up being fully committed to investing into games there is plenty of quality talent there to be recruited quite easily.
Either start another Initiative studio of respected developers that are spread across smaller studios, or just acquire a few smaller studios that merge and are rebranded as a brand new studio with the licenses of those studio's past work under one roof. Just establishing themselves could play a big role, because if Xbox ends up being fully committed to investing into games there is plenty of quality talent there to be recruited quite easily.
TheSadRanger
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Remember when they got Treasure to make a 360 exclusive for them and then cancelled it midway through development
Treasure never recovered it from it.I heard a second hand rumor a long time ago that it was freaking amazing to and was going to be Treasures magnum opus.
CyberPanda
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Sony is planning to buy more developers too btw.
Sony Plans to Buy More Studios to Bolster PS5 Exclusives Lineup
Sony CEO Jim Ryan discusses the company's strategy for the PlayStation 5, revealing plans to acquire more studios to produce first-party exclusive games.
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Al these companies want to check boxes.
I don't think they will buy a big publisher.
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Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Naughty Dog did make games for non-Sony platforms.
Remember when they got Treasure to make a 360 exclusive for them and then cancelled it midway through development
I heard a second hand rumor a long time ago that it was freaking amazing to and was going to be Treasures magnum opus.
What was the game?
brap
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Shitty PC games nobody cares about, a 3DO game that nobody played and the one game with the nude code which is why anybody has even heard of it. Remember any of them?
HeresJohnny
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I suppose. I'm not a fan of Sony doing it, either. But I do feel that their acquisitions seem more organic than MS' do. It just seems like a bunch of guys who know very little about games come up with their master plan and it goes something like: Power/Whatever is hot/Buy developers (need token Japanese dev house too)/Sony is planning to buy more developers too btw.
Sony Plans to Buy More Studios to Bolster PS5 Exclusives Lineup
Sony CEO Jim Ryan discusses the company's strategy for the PlayStation 5, revealing plans to acquire more studios to produce first-party exclusive games.
Al these companies want to check boxes.
I don't think they will buy a big publisher.
I'm kinda hard on them, because they had something really good going with the 360, and they've fallen so far from that. But even during those days, it all felt very formulaic, like they thought leading the market would simply involve mixing all the right ingredients together, like baking a cake. Although I suppose if some of these acquisitions turn out awesome games they'll look like geniuses. But I don't think Sony or MS are going to be made or broken by these acquisitions, there are so many more variables (for example, I think they're both about to make horrible pricing mistakes and are both going to pay dearly for it when they release hardware next year).
HeresJohnny
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LOL Way of the Warrior was like a troll's wet dream if wet dreams were games. It was so magnificently awful. I bought a 3D0 and heard the White Zombie song and was like "FUCK YEAH IT HAS WHITE ZOMBIE!!!" Twenty plays later and I was like "this game is fucking horrible and I hate White Zombie now."
Kagero
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The internet would break. Platinum would also cause major meltdowns.
TheSadRanger
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I don't think the name was ever revealed to the public, I wanna say it was actually revealed at some press event that Treasure was working on a 360 exclusive title. I remember them mentioning it once. I wanna say it was around TGS when they announced the Radiant Silvergun XBLA port.
Then we heard nothing and there were articles that came out that said MS pulled it's funding when it was halfway done and cancelled it. It was a long time ago so I'm having trouble finding anything on it.
It was supposed to be a Treasure shooter game but I have no clue if it was supposed to be a vertical or horizontal schmup or whatever. This all happened when MS made that initial push to get Japanese content on the 360 with Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery and Blue Dragon. The Treasure game was supposed to diversify their portfolio for the system to raise appeal for the system in Japan before they gave up.
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Dabaus
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I’ve noticed a trend that Xbox gamers wanting Japanese games is more about spiting PlayStation than actually buying the software. The reason the internet would break if ms bought someone like from or platinum is because nobody who actually cares about those studio houses would want that to happen. It wouldn’t change Xbox’s fortunes in japan and it would permanently destroy whatever good will those studios had because they willingly decided to alienate 90 percent of their audience. It’s a 2 way street, do Japanese devs want to be ignored at home and maybe get noticed on gamepass after their game bombs and sells 50k on an npd chart in the US? That’s a pretty big gamble when you could just stick with Sony and Nintendo where your audience is.
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oldergamer
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They should by capcom. That would be the best possible purchase. They also have a good north american presence and good ip.
TheShadowLord
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Valhalla studios and mistwalker.
TheDuskwalker
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Given Xenosaga Episode 1 is there second best selling game after Xenoblade Chronicles 2, I'm going to say people do. That's true about Naughty Dog though.
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White Owls
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Have a Japanese publication division (which they are already going to do) to fund Experience, Arzest, Treasure, Mages and Tokyologic.
And Phil is all set.
Also, calm down everyone. Microsoft doess not like going after big successful names, they go after smaller ones and will nurture it themselves.
Grounding
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Have a Japanese publication division (which they are already going to do) to fund Experience, Arzest, Treasure, Mages and Tokyologic.
And Phil is all set.
Also, calm down everyone. Microsoft doess not like going after big successful names, they go after smaller ones and will nurture it themselves.
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brap
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Sorry I remember that being a gamecube game for some reason.
CyberPanda
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That would melt the internet to be honest.