MS to buy Bioware?

[Drewbacca]

Originally posted by Jeremy
Andrew, I never said they were low-risk... Oh, and I doubt chipping away at Nintendo in bits (or whatever it was you were trying to say) is going to cripple them. Nothing short of the GameBoy brand name suddenly becoming unmarketable will cripple Nintendo.

The term crippling is used in the tense that they took something away from them that they had beforehand.

I never said you said they were low risk, you said Bioware was a lower risk, which isn't the case since Rares games have such a good track record of selling well.

[Tracer]

Rare was dumb, I thought this Bioware business was old news :/

ºTracer

Originally posted by diffusionx
Perhaps Microsoft is trying to build a solid base and *hope* that one of these companies does something similar. Its definitely feasible, but you need a solid base first. Which is what Bioware and Rare would be.

Lightning Might Stike Twice? It already happend with Bungie.

[Drewbacca]

What was dumb about Rare?

[Tracer]

We'll see how thier calibur of titles does on the platform. N64 was frinedly for them - I doubt Xbox will be and I do not think the majority of thier past software sales could be attributed to the quality of said games.

I think it was a waste of money. Money that would be better spent on something like Vivendi.

[Jeremy]

Rare's N64 games totally screwed with my opinion of them. Before then, I loved their games. After playing them, I seriously doubt that Rare can really change with the times.

[Master]

After all this reading, I'm gonna need a nap.

[Diff-chan]

The posts in this thread are too fucking long