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Topic	Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard
adjl 01/20/22 9:16:04 AM #47:	Blightzkrieg posted... They have been sitting on Banjo for how many years now? True. Arguably, that was because they expected to be able to do more with it, failed to do so, and now it doesn't have enough value for anyone to be really interested in buying it (even Playtonic probably wouldn't be able to do much with, given that Yooka-Laylee kind of dashed people's hopes in that regard). I could believe that the most profitable use for that IP now is to sit on it, occasionally re-release the games, and to sell it to Nintendo for Smash. MetalGarurumon posted... i meant activision no way in hell does microsoft sell their ips hell, the only reason they let bungie leave was if bungie gave them the ip to halo Halo's an IP that they've been actively profiting from for the entire time they've been in the console market, though. Of course they want to hang on to that. Crash and Spyro are not, and there's a fair chance that they'll profit more from those IP's by selling them to Sony than by making them exclusive and hoping they can convince long-time fans to jump ship and buy an Xbox instead of a PS, given that most don't consider them system-sellers. Of course, they could also keep them and just make the games multiplat, since that's probably going to be more profitable than any exclusivity plan would be (again, they're not really system-sellers, so that generally won't cost them system sales). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:961911552] in Microsoft ... [t:79858372]...</cite> <quote>Blightzkrieg posted... </cite> <quote>They have been sitting on Banjo for how many years now?</quote> True. Arguably, that was because they expected to be able to do more with it, failed to do so, and now it doesn't have enough value for anyone to be really interested in buying it (even Playtonic probably wouldn't be able to do much with, given that Yooka-Laylee kind of dashed people's hopes in that regard). I could believe that the most profitable use for that IP now is to sit on it, occasionally re-release the games, and to sell it to Nintendo for Smash. MetalGarurumon posted... </cite> <quote>i meant activision no way in hell does microsoft sell their ips hell, the only reason they let bungie leave was if bungie gave them the ip to halo</quote> Halo's an IP that they've been actively profiting from for the entire time they've been in the console market, though. Of course they want to hang on to that. Crash and Spyro are not, and there's a fair chance that they'll profit more from those IP's by selling them to Sony than by making them exclusive and hoping they can convince long-time fans to jump ship and buy an Xbox instead of a PS, given that most don't consider them system-sellers. Of course, they could also keep them and just make the games multiplat, since that's probably going to be more profitable than any exclusivity plan would be (again, they're not really system-sellers, so that generally won't cost them system sales). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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