Leaked documents show that Spencer agreed to this strategy and motives, but not whether it was actually executed.
During the lawsuit against the FTC for the purchase of Activision Blizzard King, Microsoft argued that one of the motivating factors for the purchase of Bethesda and Zenimax was due to Sony’s voracity to strike exclusives with them. These exclusives were for the sole purpose of excluding Xbox, and after seeing how they had already bought the Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo exclusive and knowing that Starfield would be the next game to jump on the American consoleSpencer’s team was quick to resolve this issue.
The fact is, there are those who might question that argument, but today we know that wasn’t the only company Americans tried to acquire because of that same fear. A fear which, by the way, has come true. Because the next one is Square Enix and we already know the games that are exclusive to Playstation skipping the Redmond console. In this editorial, I spoke at length about the issue.
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And it is that today we have learned new information that indicates that within Microsoft there was a strategy to acquire the parents of Final Fantasy. And it is that the company considered trying to buy Square Enix. It’s unclear at what level this was presented, but Phil Spencer has given his thoughts on the internal proposal.
The documents to which you have had access The edge leave us some clues, but They do not specify when the negotiations were lost
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At the moment this is all the information we currently have, remains to be seen if they really came to start conversations or if it was only in a strategic plan.
Jose Angel
I’ve been running this house since 2014. I love playing all things directing and I’m an avid fan of Microsoft products.
