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With all the continued acquistions happening in the gaming industry, I thought it'd be good to have a general thread to discuss the greater connections and consequences. What do you think about acquistions in general, what do you expect to happen in the future? How do you judge the consequences for you personally as well as for the industry?
As I said before, I feel more confident now that Sony acquiring SE might be more than just a "fun" thought of mine. Not that this would be enough to answer the current push made by MS buying Activision-Blizzard, but Sony surely must feel the need to do something, whatever that will be. Unlike many, I also expect Nintendo to actually react to this current situation. So far they've been slowly building up their staff numbers, currently focusing on the new building that has a larger staff capacity. But this conservative growth is too slow in a world where big corporations can just buy up the market on a whim from one day to the next. However, I don't see Nintendo going for any of the big Japanese publishers, so no Capcom, Sega or Banda Namco (the latter I could see if Nintendo ever felt gravely threatened, but we're far from that point). The ideal choice for Nintendo imo would be Koei-Tecmo. Not only do they have plenty of traditional franchises that'd fit great into Nintendo's echelon of characters, but also would the Musou-games be the perfect vehicle to function as holdovers between the release of their big franchises', satisfying fan-demand. A Zelda- or Xenoblade-game will always take about 5 years, but with the relatively quickly made Musou-principle, you could always put a Zelda Musou or Xenoblade Musou in there for relatively low budgets.
But beyoned Sony and Nintendo, I feel like the gaming industry, at least the traditional one as well as its fans (us) are experiencing a "Dark World"-moment right now. You know, where the player realizes that those first three dungeons were only the prologue of the game and the real adventure is now about to begin. Ideally, all this consolidation wouldn't happen, but as someone who's stopped caring about where I play my games as long as the games I get are great, it's pretty damn exciting to see all this happen.
With all the continued acquistions happening in the gaming industry, I thought it'd be good to have a general thread to discuss the greater connections and consequences. What do you think about acquistions in general, what do you expect to happen in the future? How do you judge the consequences for you personally as well as for the industry?
As I said before, I feel more confident now that Sony acquiring SE might be more than just a "fun" thought of mine. Not that this would be enough to answer the current push made by MS buying Activision-Blizzard, but Sony surely must feel the need to do something, whatever that will be. Unlike many, I also expect Nintendo to actually react to this current situation. So far they've been slowly building up their staff numbers, currently focusing on the new building that has a larger staff capacity. But this conservative growth is too slow in a world where big corporations can just buy up the market on a whim from one day to the next. However, I don't see Nintendo going for any of the big Japanese publishers, so no Capcom, Sega or Banda Namco (the latter I could see if Nintendo ever felt gravely threatened, but we're far from that point). The ideal choice for Nintendo imo would be Koei-Tecmo. Not only do they have plenty of traditional franchises that'd fit great into Nintendo's echelon of characters, but also would the Musou-games be the perfect vehicle to function as holdovers between the release of their big franchises', satisfying fan-demand. A Zelda- or Xenoblade-game will always take about 5 years, but with the relatively quickly made Musou-principle, you could always put a Zelda Musou or Xenoblade Musou in there for relatively low budgets.
But beyoned Sony and Nintendo, I feel like the gaming industry, at least the traditional one as well as its fans (us) are experiencing a "Dark World"-moment right now. You know, where the player realizes that those first three dungeons were only the prologue of the game and the real adventure is now about to begin. Ideally, all this consolidation wouldn't happen, but as someone who's stopped caring about where I play my games as long as the games I get are great, it's pretty damn exciting to see all this happen.
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