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Satya Nadella, CEO: “We will always seek to grow inorganic where it makes sense”
Microsoft has been on a veritable wave of game studio acquisitions in recent years, and it may not even as it closes its biggest deal yet.
Speaking to CNET, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that gaming companies will remain on Microsoft’s radar for the foreseeable future.
“We will always look for places where there is that coincidence of purpose, mission and culture,” he said. “We will always seek to grow inorganic where it makes sense.”
This comment comes right after Microsoft announced its biggest acquisition yet – Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax, for which it paid $ 7.5 billion.
Included in that bundle were all other ZeniMax subsidiaries, including id Software, Arkane, Machine Games, Tango Gameworks, ZeniMax Online Studios, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios.
This also follows a series of other notable acquisitions in recent years, including Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Compulsion Games, and Undead Labs in mid-2018, followed by Obsidian Entertainment and InXile that fall, and Double Fine Productions last year.
“Content is just the incredible ingredient on our platform that we continue to invest in,” Xbox Director Phil Spencer told CNET. “This doubles the size of our creative organization.”
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