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Found an interesting graphic about most mainstream game studios and IPs, and who owns who.
It's surprisingly centralized.
It's surprisingly centralized.
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I don't really think Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, are in the business of, you know, making stuff. They'll just buy developers out. At this point in time, no ones ever really going to make anything and aim to own it.
Or just look at what became of Blizzard! I mean, what the fuck does MS even think they're buying?
One of the things I find interesting is that corporations like Amazon and Google, with plenty of cash but little experience, make such feeble and half-arsed attempts to break into the games market. I think it might take a lot longer for some of those behemoths to make a splash.
Also, what's the point of spending 100bn if they aren't going to make it work for them. It needs to be a strategic direction for those companies.
I'm just trying to think of all the best games and how any of these giants are involved.I may misinterpret what you mean by "buy developers out", but they do have their teams of developers, like Google and Microsoft. And quite a lot of them. They do make a lot of products themselves.
I wasn't even aware they made 8 billion in 2020. I was a huge Blizzard fan and they've pretty much lost me. WoW seems stagnant, but alive. Diablo 4 I'm looking forward to.MS like money . With Actiblizz, they are buying a publisher that went from $4 billion revenue a few years ago to over $8 billion revenue in 2020. That's what they are buying. An extremely successful multi billion dollar company with over 400 million active users per month.
I'm just trying to think of all the best games and how any of these giants are involved.
Googles best game is …. I can't think of any Google games.
Microsofts best game is probably Age of Empires. AoE 4 was made by Relic, who did Dawn of War. Pretty good choice of developer, but MS has very little to do with the devs.
Amazon, New World. Can't really say much about it as I haven't played it, but they're also pretty new to the industry. I'll keep an eye on them.
I suppose its more about my personal relationship with whatever games they make. Google might have made the most popular phone games but I don't play any of those so I'm really talking less about financial success and more about making stuff I'm interested in.
I wasn't even aware they made 8 billion in 2020. I was a huge Blizzard fan and they've pretty much lost me. WoW seems stagnant, but alive. Diablo 4 I'm looking forward to.