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TopicRandom thought with the Microsoft/Activision merger which could be awesome
adjl
08/17/23 12:46:05 PM
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I wouldn't hold your breath. By and large, those are IPs that haven't been cultivated because ABK didn't expect them to make as much profit as they could make by directing their development efforts elsewhere. That calculus isn't going to change with the MS acquisition. What might change is that MS now has an incentive to develop games that might not be as profitable but can help drive system sales by being exclusive (this is why first-party exclusives are generally a good thing, since they promote making games that are good instead of just maximally profitable), but even then it's a bit of a long shot to expect them to revive obscure old IPs for that when they have much bigger names to focus on.

It's not impossible, and it's more likely than it was with ABK as an independent publisher, but it still doesn't seem overly likely.

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