IO, Remedy, Moon Studios I think would be great additions.

6 disagrees. Facts are facts. Google an interview with the dev and see what they said for themselves

I agree - I think it would be a good thing to have your current lineup of 1st party studios produce something before looking at other acquisitions.

So let me get this straight, when MS has no games, people like you complained that they have no games. But when they try to acquire more studios to make more game, you say they purchase studios just for the hell of it.

So which one is it?

That's fine and dandy but Insomniac's last game was the most successful they ever made. They are and have been financially viable for many years and given their status in this industry they wouldn't have any trouble making a deal with a publisher to finance their next project(s). MS acquired studios that struggled financially and were in a constant threat of being shutdown so I couldn't disagree more with what you said. As I see it, MS way was more beneficial to this industry.

Noctis

Building a developer like The Initiative or The Coalition is what people were talking about or acquiring developers like undead labs and playground who have built an exclusive relationship with them. Add something new to or strengthen the industry, add more jobs and more game-makers.... The studios Sony acquires had all been PlayStation family before the acquisition.

No one said that - what was said is they should release games from the studios they've already acquired "then look at purchasing more".

But all the devs they have purchased do have games that are coming out.

-Ninja Theory: Bleeding Edge
-Obsidian: The Outer World
-Playgrounds Games: Fable reboot (rumoured)
-Double Fine: Psychonauts 2
-InXile: Wasteland 3

In addition, both Compulsion and Undead Lab are also working on their next unannounced games. So those studios are indeed releasing games.

“MS has yet to show they truly know what to do with a studio or IP.”

So why are they known as the Forza/Halo/Gears company around this part?

@King_Noctis:
Forza is a racing game. Why that's a nothing sandwich shouldn't need to be said.

Halo existed before MS got into consoles and the studio that made it bought themselves out from the company - to go to Activision so I don't know what the f**k they were even thinking. Likewise Gears was 3rd party title MS bought to continue it if not run it into the ground.

All of those games are all about online multi. Show no creative diversity. By that I mean MS bought Ninja Theory, a studio known for SP, yet the first game they announce under MS is an online multi. Cannot see how MS defenders don't see the problem there.

“Forza is a racing game.“

So Forza is not an IP that MS has maintained since the beginning and then even branched it into a more popular series in Forza Horizon just because it is a racing game?

“Halo existed before MS got into consoles and the studio that made it bought themselves out from the company - to go to Activision”

Halo Combat Evolved launched with Xbox because MS bought the studio. Do you say Spiderman does not belong to Sony because Sony didn’t own Insomniac? And how does Bungie’s deal with Activision work out?

“Likewise Gears was 3rd party title MS bought to continue it if not run it into the ground.”

Run into the ground? Lol what? Do we live in a parallel universe where Gears 5 doesn’t exist? Again, is Spiderman not a Sony game just because Insomniac was third party?

“MS bought Ninja Theory, a studio known for SP, yet the first game they announce under MS is an online multi.”

Bleeding Edge was in development since before NT was acquired by MS. NT also announced that they have a traditional single player game in the work as well. They also had just released Hellblade. You think a game can be developed in a year?

EON productions own James Bond IP from memory. It is still a British owned product.

Sony no longer has the Bond license they let it lapse!

They had the distribution rights to Daniel Craig's Bond up until SPECTRE.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse