Do they even have any worthwhile IPs worth purchasing?
If I were being charitable to the chinks, maybe they're keeping the IPs dormant to let all the bad releases associated with them fade from memory, just so they can successfully reboot them a few years down the line to financial success and praise.
As they are currently? Not really. But a lot of them could be great again in the right hands.
There's no way Microsoft, or anyone else, sells IPs. That's something that just isn't done anymore. Nintendo also has no interest in buying any IP. They already own so much of it that they can't get out games for everything in a timely manner, they're not wasting money on Banjo so they can own a fifth (sixth?, seventh?) platformer charcter.
I get that but some cautious optimism should be at play. Especially when the real higher ups are the same idiots that ruined everything.
I love how they realized too little, too late that they have to actually DO something with those IPs in order to make money. Did the suits really think hype alone would sell consoles? “Maybe one day Xbox will get a new Fallout game!”.
That would purge the Bluesky and Reddit left wing culture warriors from its community, making Sony even more soy in the long term.
Then they can license them out to other studios for a fee and let them shoulder the cost of making the game. Still better than doing literally nothing with them or letting them stew in development hell for years only to eventually pull the plug.
Even then - would it justify the cost at all?
Elon is the kind that will tell them to make games, at a fast rate, lest they get fired. He hates wasted money and his firing finger is on the trigger. He would purge all the woke/incompetents. The man might not know how to name things but he knows business.
It was overall an interesting video. We really can't overstate what a gigantic fuck-up gamepass in combination with the Activision Blizzard acquisition has been.
There's only one way to find out. It'd cost Microsoft nothing to try and since the IPs are already toxic like you said it's on studios who think they can pull it off to roll the dice.
She is partly to blame because she ran the Microsoft AI division before joining Xbox
If he shed the DEI shit, opened up the platform wide for developers worldwide to build/deploy games on it without Microsoft's evil overlord supervision style or corporate bullshit, and made online multiplayer free? Fuck yeah it would. How many hundreds of millions of Xbox owners are there? That's a hell of an audience to buy into, and devs might have more faith in it if they know MS isn't sitting there eating paste straight from the jar while they run the show.
Don't blame her, sure, but Microsoft is part of the circular funding circlejerk that has caused hardware prices to skyrocket, so they're still to blame.
The demand was so low that Costco quit selling Xboxes in the US and EBGames in Canada scaled back their stock of Xbox products last year. As it turns out, there’s not a whole lot of demand for a console with no games.
Duh. Microsoft is looking to sell Xbox to another company like Google or Apple. They want to make it look as profitable as possible for when the big fire sale of Xbox and Microsoft Gaming happens next generation. SONY is in the same boat hoping for arabs to dump massive cash from some wealth fund into their company.