hey what's up everyone thanks for stopping by and checking out the video remember to hit that subscribe button and that like button the support is greatly appreciated and if you want to be notified on future content make sure to hit that small little bell icon it helps the channel a lot and i actually put something new on the channel i put a join button a lot of people have been requesting this for me and i've always felt very humbled by it but finally i put some emojis together some badges you can see them up on screen right here you can join and then use these custom emojis and also have these badges next to your name so you can stand out and chat and i appreciate all the support that everybody gets you don't have to hit that join button but if you do trust me it just goes that extra mile to helping out the channel but enough of that let's talk about this narrative going around that xbox is buying all kinds of studios because they want to get a stranglehold on the gaming industry like there's some kind of villains instead of building studios which takes forever i might add they want to buy already made studios or partner with already made studios this is coming from so many people yet this year alone sony has bought more studios and has invested a lot in their first party output than pretty much a lot of publishers out there it's as if they're trying to combat the storm of content creators being taken off the market not just from xbox but from tencent ea ubisoft activision and so many other publishers out there in the gaming market you know the common sense thing to do when you see other publishers investing in studios is to buy your own studios yet the one thing i always see is that xbox is the main reason for this and i get it the bethesda buyout was huge and people are still talking about it to this day even though it's a year old and they'll talk about it a lot more once those bethesda games start to release on a yearly basis that will only come to xbox i'm talking star field red fall and all those other big games we know that are coming from that publisher but the one thing i don't see people saying is that these studios love joining xbox or that these studios chose to join xbox for a good reason all we see is the negative viewpoint instead of the positive viewpoint maybe just maybe these studios had a lot of publishers trying to buy them and they turned them all down maybe xbox came along and offered them something they just couldn't refuse maybe that's exactly what happened with obsidian entertainment that's what this article mentions right here when they talk about obsidian rejecting other offers and joining xbox here's what's said obsidian rejected an acquisition offer prior to microsoft buyout they have to be people you can sit down and have a beer with obsidian rejected an acquisition offer prior to joining microsoft the studio ceo has revealed speaking to gaming URL_TOKEN on october NUMBER_TOKENth which takes place alongside the egx convention in the uk obsidian studio head fergus revealed that someone approached the developer with a view to acquiring them before they were purchased by microsoft huh isn't that kind of funny that people don't tend to report that
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN hey what's up everyone thanks for stopping by and checking out the video remember to hit that subscribe button and that like button the support is greatly appreciated and if you want to be notified on future content make sure to hit that small little bell icon it helps the channel a lot and i actually put something new on the channel i put a join button a lot of people have been requesting this for me and i've always felt very humbled by it but finally i put some emojis together some badges you can see them up on screen right here you can join and then use these custom emojis and also have these badges next to your name so you can stand out and chat and i appreciate all the support that everybody gets you don't have to hit that join button but if you do trust me it just goes that extra mile to helping out the channel but END_INTERACTION_TOKEN