The acquisition of studies is something that has been the order of the day in recent weeks. If first it was Microsoft that announced the purchase of Activision Blizzard, one of the great companies in the video game industry; Sony did the same a few days later with the acquisition of Bungie, the parents of Halo.
However, some information has ensured that these will not be the last acquisitions to be made in the industry, which has led to theorizing about which could be the next studios that Microsoft could buy. In this sense, many have considered that what would make the most sense would be the purchase of a Japanese studio by Xbox, although it seems a somewhat distant option, according to analysts.
Analysts talk about the possibilities of buying a Japanese studio for Xbox
In the article Nathan Brown Hit Points, this analyst has talked about the possibility of buying a Japanese studio for Xbox, such as could be SEGA, Square Enix or Capcom. brown attributes “little chance” to Microsoft to be able to carry out an acquisition of this type, justifying it on a cultural reason above the economic one.
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The analyst assures that Japanese companies are very resistant to being acquired by a foreign company, and that if it were attempted, they would resort to the system known as “Keiretsu”. This system assumes that many of the companies have small shares of the rest, thus avoiding the purchase of foreign companies. In fact, Brown goes further, and ensures that in the event of buying a Japanese land study, the majority of employees would leave the study “practically imminently”.
However, the analyst also speaks that there is no “nothing that can be ruled out in these times”, and that the purchase of a Japanese studio by Xbox would be an even bigger event than the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.