Microsoft eyeing up Konami and Sega acquisitions to possibly invigorate waning Xbox console sales in Japan

[Segaguydc]

They just spent $7.5 billion dollars on Bethesda, they're not going to spend another couple billion dollars so soon. Yes Microsoft is rich, but its going to take years for the actual Xbox division to recoup that money. Also neither one makes any sense as Xbox will never be popular in Japan and buying them and making their games exclusive would just kill the publishers. It amazes me dumb people even want this to happen. Its horrible for the industry when a giant conglomerate comes in and forcibly takes it over. The gaming industry is dead if MS just keeps buying all the major publishers.

ms made 14 billion profit in one quarter...the 7.5 billion is change found in the sofa Phil sits on in the lobby.

Your giant conglomerate were Sony when they entered the gaming market many times bigger than both sega and nintendo combined...who bought developers left and right to crush competition.

To the numpty who thinks sega cant be owned by an american company read a history book was owned by serveral and founded by an american Too boot.

[Johan]

Quite disappointed by the news on this website recently. Notebookcheck used to be a more serious place than random twitter-fueld clickbait news site.

I hope the German owners will fix things here a bit...

[asdf123]

SEGA and Konami are two companies that are financially doing well. And even if they would not, they would seek a fusion with a JAPANESE company and not with american Microsoft. Ridiculous Xbox Fan Fiction.

[AshOrmanical]

"A pOpULAr TeCH cOmmEnTeR"

The individual who started vomiting this nonsense about an acquisition of Sega and Konami is a rando moron named Astal on Twitter. That nimrod has a history of tweeting absolute nonsense. Whether it's about tech or games, that guy has no clue on what he talks about and REPEATEDLY gets proven wrong. YES, REPEATEDLY!!

Just to give you an example, there was an XBox livestream where Phil Spencer's circular strobelight was being reflected from a black screen behind him. The strobelight was used to illuminate Phil's face. The "genius" Astal looked at that and - GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW - concluded that Microsoft was aquiring From Software and making Elden Ring exclusive to XBox... even though Elden Ring was also announced for Playstation AND Sony owns stake in Kodakawa, From Software's parent company!!!! I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING!!!!

Why in the world would you guys write an article on this garbage. Seriously, THIS IS YOUR "JOURNALISM"??

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

[big cool boyt]

konami isnt only a videogame company lol, youre telling me microsoft is gonna buy yu gi oh nahhhhh