Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email
Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email
But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.
But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.
Microsoft wanting to buy Valve and Nintendo should tell you just how much what they really want is a monopoly on gaming.
If Microsoft loves anything, it's monopolies.
They all want a monopoly, not just Microsoft. Microsoft are just the only ones that could afford it.
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Considering Gabe is ex-microsoft and wants to distance himself as much as possible from them, I highly doubt that'd work, he'd go down fighting at the very least.
Does he want to distance himself? Gabe said he learned more in his short months-long tenure at MS than he did in the rest of his academic career. He dropped out of Harvard, mind you.
He modeled his entire company off of MS. He even adopted their primary strategy, buy, polish and package. It's literally just embrace, extend, extinguish all over. Balmer taught him very well.
I really don't get why people think he's all that different from any other billionaire. He got there by buying out competition, and if they wouldn't sell, theft and litigation.
He's said that way before 2020, also. Publicly. It seems that has not changed. Most in that kind of position would come to the same conclusions of buying up the competition and making money off their products. It's cheaper, it's easier, you already get the infrastructure and customer base, etc. What capitalist wouldn't try to go that route?
Exactly. He’d be a terrible exec if he didn’t want to.
Is there a company they wouldn't buy? Unity maybe?
Why not? Buy low, right? Best time to it is after a company stupidly tabled their value and trust right 😂
Honestly might not be such a bad idea. Unity is built on .Net, which Microsoft also owns. The teams could work together to get Unity modernized and cleaned up, and I bet developers would trust Microsoft more than Unity (Consider that Microsoft also owns VS Code, Github, npm and more that tons of devs frequently use)
God, please, no. If ever you heed your humble servant...
Not to worry. I think this qualifies as a "cold day in Hell" situation.
Somebody please tell Gabe that even if he would walk away with billions of dollars he's going to lose his soul in the process.
It's just not worth it, tell Microsoft to go take a long walk off of a short pier into a vat of battery acid.
It’s a bummer that the government wasn’t able to stop the recent acquisition of activision, but hopefully that cooled Microsoft’s eagerness a little.
It’s not done yet, definitely still a good chance it’s blocked. I don’t think it should be, but it very well could be.
What a coincidence, me too!
Microsoft needs to to have a massive anti trust lawsuit thrown at them
Microsoft is a US company operating in the US. That means US law dose not apply.
Well yeah.
How is this news?
Thank you. Obviously “we would buy them if we could” is given; but just as obviously, this was just wishful thinking out loud.
