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Acquisitions aren\u2019t necessarily a new trend in the video games industry, but recently many studios have been parented by large conglomerates. For instance, EA recently forged a partnership with Dirt developers Codemasters<\/a>, Sony has added Housemarque (and potentially Bluepoint) to their expansive list of in-house studios<\/a>, and Microsoft\u2019s multi-billion dollar purchase of Bethesda<\/a> still has the community reeling, especially with the announcement of Starfield as an Xbox exclusive. Of course, some consumers have voiced concern over the surge of acquisitions, calling consolidation a negative aspect of the industry. Phil Spencer, however, feels otherwise; he thinks acquisitions are a good thing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In an interview with IGN<\/a>, Spencer talked about the highs and lows of the industry\u2019s recent shift to expanding their brands. Spencer notes the difficulty that comes with starting small businesses and turnover. When hardships do occur, Spencer stated that simply not selling can be short-sighted:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean every team has to end up selling their studio but I think it a natural and healthy part of our industry that certain teams will start a studio\u2014many of them will fail, we know most small businesses fail, whether it\u2019s video games or anything else\u2014but those that make it through and at such a kind of risk-filled journey for them, to get to the point to create real value, I\u2019m always going to congratulate when teams get to the point where they realize that value through acquisition or just massive independent success if that\u2019s the path they also start to on.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How do you feel about Spencer\u2019s words? Do you agree that acquisitions have been normalized and are healthy, or are you legitimately concerned about the trajectory of the industry with larger companies expanding their umbrellas?<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [Source: IGN<\/a> via Gaming Bolt<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n\n Acquisitions aren\u2019t necessarily a new trend in the video games industry, but recently many studios hav…<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Microsoft\u2019s Phil Spencer Says Studio Acquisitions Are A Good Thing - ITTeacherITFreelance.hk","description":"Acquisitions aren\u2019t necessarily a new trend in the video games industry, but recently many studios hav..."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266594,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266593\/revisions\/266594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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