On paper a joint effort between Codemasters and SMS would be something special. Presumably they've got something specific in mind to work on and it could end up being pretty great.

I always thought that SMS made good games but that they'd benefit from help from someone with either money or experience.

Codemasters is taking the next generation seriously.

After what Codemasters did to Evolution Studios, this is bad news.

I might be the only one thinking this, but to me, this is concerning. It's not like there are that many racing studios out there. So Codemasters buying one of their few competitors to me is an issue

This is likely because of the Fast & Furious game that SMS has been working on. If done right that will be a big potential franchise for them.

How mad can you be to buy this crap company, apparently slightly.

why are they mad they was acquired??

So Codemasters are buying their competition and everyone thinks it's cool? They're growing bigger in the car racing market buying out the bigger sim developers. Pretty crazy.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau