Sega, IO Interactive, Bungie & more were acquisition targets for Microsoft in 2021 (emails leaked claiming to ‘spend’ Sony out of business)

[MrLogic]

Japan not gonna let that happen

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Even if they don’t buy Sega it’s cool the way it is imo


Sega and Bandai Namco always gets props from me for putting in the effort and not being on that xenophobic shyt some of these other Japanese companies be on

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

well well well

This could be its own thread lmao

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Sonic the Hedgehog helped revive 63-year-old Sega. The firm wants a repeat with its other classics

Sega Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi said that the company is thinking of bringing more of its lucrative intellectual property to other platforms.

www.cnbc.com

No Microsoft deal on the cards​

Utsumi also addressed rumors of Microsoft interest to buy the company.

The Redmond, Washington technology giant reportedly considered acquiring Sega as well as Bungie, the studio originally responsible for Halo, the Verge reported earlier this year, citing internal documents from a hearing in the Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Sega's operations chief dismissed the suggestion that Sega, which is owned by Sega Sammy Corporation, the company formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy Corporation in 2004, had any intention of being sold to another party.

"Many companies are interested. We feel honored," Utsumi told CNBC.

"We have attractive IPs and potentials. Companies owned by the owner. A strong owner. I don't think that (right now) that kind of transaction is going to happen. (I don't expect that)".

 

[David_TheMan]

I thought MS would buy Sega when they made Xbox One, I mean they were pretty much Dreamcast 2.0 with the peter Moore influence and I thought his connections with Sega was the reason why he was hired by MS in the first place, to broker the deal

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I thought MS would buy Sega when they made Xbox One, I mean they were pretty much Dreamcast 2.0 with the peter Moore influence and I thought his connections with Sega was the reason why he was hired by MS in the first place, to broker the deal

A japanese company would be fools to sell themselves to microsoft at this point.

 

[David_TheMan]

A japanese company would be fools to sell themselves to microsoft at this point.

Money is money, doesn't matter if it is german, american, neatherlands, uk, russian, korean, or japanese.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

A japanese company would be fools to sell themselves to microsoft at this point.

No they wouldnt

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Money is money, doesn't matter if it is german, american, neatherlands, uk, russian, korean, or japanese.

If that were true they would have sold already

 

[David_TheMan]

If that were true they would have sold already

If they didn't want to sell that wouldn't be the case though would it?
Them wanting to sell matters more than the nationality.
Put your thinking cap on now.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

If they didn't want to sell that wouldn't be the case though would it?

 

[The Mad Titan]