Rumor: MS Bought 3 More Studios

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This is where I’m at. Not only show but give some hard release dates, i feel like it’s all talk talk talk from ms and their employed insiders all day. Where are the damn games?
The next studio they announce it should be ok here’s the game here’s the date not we acquired some other studio someday something will come of it. I get ZeniMax but after that it needs to stop. Studio announcements aren’t mic drop moments unless it’s something of that level.
 

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:unimpressed:how bout they release three games

They just started buying studios 4 years ago, AAA games take 3-5 years to make, and they're long standing studios(Rare, Coalition) expect 343 are just starting their development on new projects.

Do the math
 

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They just started buying studios 4 years ago, AAA games take 3-5 years to make, and they're long standing studios(Rare, Coalition) expect 343 are just starting their development on new projects.

Do the math

Not really an excuse for such a huge gap in releases especially with a new console out. They had studios before 2019
 

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Not really an excuse for such a huge gap in releases especially with a new console out. They had studios before 2019

Those studios in 2019 were wrapping up previous publisher deals(Wasteland 3; Outer Worlds); getting primed to drop last gen/crossgen games(Gears 5; Gears Tactics, Halo), or they just got acquired or started work on new games(Playground didn't start working on Fable til like late 2017/mid '18; The Iniatitive was still hiring in 2020).

We know on the Bethesda side, that not only Starfield is soon to release, but Wolfenstein 3 and possibly Omen are around the corner. The games are coming, and MS for the first time in years has a legit roadmap.
 

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They just started buying studios 4 years ago, AAA games take 3-5 years to make, and they're long standing studios(Rare, Coalition) expect 343 are just starting their development on new projects.

Do the math
I got my One X in 2017. Now i own a Series X. In that 4 years, both have been Halo machines with the occasional Forza Horizon n Gamepass indies:francis:

its time to stop talkin about what studios were bought n showin some gameplay footage:francis:
 

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I got my One X in 2017. Now i own a Series X. In that 4 years, both have been Halo machines with the occasional Forza Horizon n Gamepass indies:francis:

its time to stop talkin about what studios were bought n showin some gameplay footage:francis:

You're expecting them to drop games out the ass, when they just started getting studios, and we're in a pandemic that has hindered studios all across gaming?
 

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You're expecting them to drop games out the ass, when they just started getting studios, and we're in a pandemic that has hindered studios all across gaming?
At some point things need to start happening. Several of these studios were from 2018 so they should be showing stuff now. Undead, Playground, Obsidian, Ninja Theory, inXile and the Initiative all from 2018 and Double Fine from 2019. Everything except Double Fine and the ZeniMax studios dates back 3 years ago or more.
 
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