Microsoft Is Done Acquiring Studios For Now

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Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios have, in a relatively short time, grew with several key acquisitions over the last year. With buying the likes of smaller studios such as Ninja Theory and Double Fine, the company now has quite the list of developers under its belt. The inevitable question comes now: who’s next? Well, undoubtedly someone will be, but for now the company seems to be satisfied where they’re at.

In an interview with Twinfinite, Microsoft’s Aaron Greensberg discussed a lot about the current state of Xbox Game Studios. When it came to talking about acquisitions, he put over how much talent they currently have and that, for the time being, there probably won’t be any major acquisitions in the near future. He leaves the door open for it to eventually happen, just not soon.

“It’s been exciting and it’s been great getting to know all these teams, going out and sitting down with Ninja Theory, or the team at Obsidian or inXile, and seeing the stuff that they’re working on now that people know about and the secret things they have in the works that people don’t know about yet. We’ll in time be sharing more about those.

I think we feel good about the level of content we have coming from our internal studios, but we felt good about that and then the opportunity with Double Fine came and that was a perfect fit.

You never know, but right now I think where we are, with our 15 internal studios, we feel really good about the amount of content we’re getting from that, whether it’s supporting Project Scarlett, or supporting Xbox Games Pass on PC and console, we feel like we have a healthy set of content across multiple genres, multiple game types, that will excite our fans.”


While there has been mentions of wanting to get a Japanese studio of some sort to help the company in that region, there’s never been any credible rumor or speculation that any purchase is coming. Whether it’ll happen at some point is up in the air, but it seems the company is slowing down on that aspect of business.



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MDAPosted:

Good. Xbox needs to make sure this console is awesome and give us fans what we like

PinkRibbonPosted:

I wouldnt put a doubt on this, xbox needs some serious come backing, PS is a great console in my opinion since the 4 came out but xbox 360 did beat ps3. MS is finally realizing to not jump the gun on Consoles and others.

CTVPosted:

this is good because standalone companies can worry less about their projects meeting deadtime requirements and someone else telling them what to do and what not to do for their own game.

AnimePosted:

Well I'm glad they did get some.