Microsoft was one of the companies that started this studio buying fever that reigns today in the industry with the purchase of Ninja Theory, PlayGround Games, Undead Labs and Compulsion Games in 2018. According to the latest rumors, the Redmond they could be preparing another major new purchase looking forward to the next few months. Something big, similar to last year’s Bethesda purchase, where they spent more than seven billion dollars.
This rumor comes from a well-known video game news youtuber and has quickly gone viral on forums such as Reddit. This youtuber, Skullzi, claims to have heard big rumors about a new potential purchase by Microsoft: “I don’t want to say any details since I don’t even know if all this is true yet, but damn it,” he says. «I predict that many Internet lawyers will debate monopoly laws at some point in the near future.”
At the moment, the youtuber has not gone into details of which could be that great company that, if it is bought by Microsoft, would cast doubt on the antitrust laws. Laws that already had to validate the agreement with Bethesda both in North America and Europe. Of course, it has to be a reputable company, although for now it is nothing more than a simple rumor without too much foundation despite the noise it has managed to make on the networks.
In the meantime, PlayStation is also in season of acquisitions, the Japanese company has bought two studios so far this summer. The first of them was a team specialized in ports from consoles to PC and the second and more recent, the purchase of Firesprite, a studio specialized in VR technology with former employees from other company studios. We will see if both companies continue to pull checkbooks in the coming months.