“The game was first released in November”

The game launched on Xbox One in December

They should they need it.

I would rather the Xbox division spend their money on new I.P's & new studios. In the long run that would be better for all gamers.

Both companies are guilty of making deals to keep games off of the competitions consoles so if Microsoft does this whats the problem Is it only cool when Sony does it is that it ?

They need their own IPs. Stop buying stuff and focus on your own games.

It's gotta be on sale first. MS can purchase whatever they want, but if Bluehole does not wanna sell ya can't buy it.
It all depends what thy wanna be. If they are gunning to be the next COD IP you can't sell to MS. If they are just in for a quick buck (and it doesn't seem so) by all means sell out to MS.

"All Your Base Are Belong To Bluehole"

PUBG is a fad. Not saying it isn't fun but remember Day Z...

MS should acquire PUBG, meanwhile Sony needs to see this as a sign and bring back S.O.C.O.M.

Been playing this for Xbox and the stress levels you experience when you hear some one else in the same house you're in is through the roof.

I don't necessarily agree that MS should buy Battlegrounds but at this point why not? The game is surprisingly fun in its bare simplicity. And it's only the alpha on Xbox too.

Sony could acquire them too. What is the point of these articles?

4 million players and counting on fortnite.

Why Microsoft?

Lol why would Bluehole Miss out on even BIGGER SALES on the PS4? It makes no sense lol this artcles are pointless

They give too much credit for this developer. They should released this game on full retail price of $60 and we will see what happen. Of course of It's going to sell millions for a game that's already popular and established on different platform for $30. It's kinda like that game cuphead. It sold millions because the game is good and the price is great for $20

Go for it. Fortnite is better anyway. Who cares about spending your money on great first party titles, when you can buy out an inferior port of a battle royale game.

Is everyone forgetting they paid BILLIONS for Minecraft? Everyone’s saying that would cost 100’s of millions. Yeah for sure. But if they were smart they would buy PUBG and bluehole. PUBG is killing on Xbox right now. And they have the money. If it’s under a billion I wouldn’t be surprised if they bought it.

MS would be wise to invest in to this perpetually, as it's the biggest game of the generation.

Have fun then MS. Spend excess on third party games.

It would be the Minecraft mistake all over again...good for shareholders, horrible for gamers. And frankly I don't think PUBG will be very relevant a year from now.

So long as I can still play on Steam.

the developers have said they want to be on all platforms. MS most likely have 1 year exclusive deal like they had for rise of the tomb raider. instead of saying they should buy the game/developer(which btw is owned by a their parent company which is huge and worth billions already) why not invest that money elsewhere for continuous success

MS probably already paid a pretty penny to bring this exclusives to xbox one and this would be a more expensive purchase than minecraft. Another thing MC was owned by one persona while PUBG is owned by a corporation so when if MS does try to buy it the other company will ask for 800 plus million of cash and rest in MS stocks, this is where most deals fall apart because successful company don't like giving up stocks

i am against any company buying up 3rd part games timed or permanent but i understand it's business and deals are made

BTW: to those of you xbox fanboys yes you:

ps4 exclusives sell 5 million and it's not enough yet a console install of 35 plus million buys 3 million copies and it's a huge success. It works both ways

Only 3 million players on Xbox. It has nearly 30 million on PC, which is not an Microsoft platform, as they do not control or profit from PC game sales if they aren't the publisher. Concurrent players on steam has reached 3 million so the sales on Xbox is small fry compared to PC.

If Microsoft wanted to acquire PUBG it would cost them several billions just for one game which could have gone into building up a few new studios. MS needs to get their priorities in order and improve their studio portfolio if they want to survive in the next gen. They are massively underperforming and I can see Nintendo beating them with the Switch this gen.

The rubberbanding, texture pop ins , frame rate issues, bugs...it all annoys the crap out of me and it’s ugly to look at. But it’s fun.

MS shouldnt buy this IP in my opinion even though its breaking records and is a great game. They just need to show that as a company they can put out their own in house developed AAA games. Just my opinion N4G.........

Hardly any games out for Xbox one in 2917 those that was are available on pc. The fact of one Stella title in pubg doesn't make things better.

LOL. The author clearly has no idea how big this game is.

This game sold 27 million copies on PC, within a span of 6 or so months alone. Let that sink in for a minute. Bluehole would absolutely want this running on toasters if possible (even at 4 fps) because of how big of a viral phenomenon it is.

Their CEO already said that they want to release PUBG on as much platforms as possible. Forget PS4 for a minute, don't surprised if this releases on the Switch too, with horrible performance issues. They care about 2 things, players who buy the game for $30 and their concurrent playerbase who spend $$$ on microtransaction skins/cosmetics etc. Locking the game down to Xbox (no matter how much ms pays them) alone on console would hurt their revenue stream inevitably.

This is like expecting activision to make the next cod exclusive to xbox because it released in a "EARLY ACCESS" program first on Xbox. It's "exclusive" to the early access period and it's because sony didn't want it on PS4 with the kind of state it runs on consoles and they don't have an early access program.

did they ever make their money back on minecraft? would they be willing to spend x billions acquiring PUBG? Most people who are ever going to buy PUBG already have..

a multiplayer shooter? really?

Not releasing on the #1 console in the market which has triple the user base of Xbox is crazy.

They will loose million of sales not releasing on PS4.

Umm go ahead. I’ll live just the same...ffs these articles are so ridiculous.

That would be a smart move for MS but a foolish one for Bluehole, I doubt its going to happen since Brandon Greene has talked about wanting to put PUBG on the PS4

Eventually the gaming space will be oversaturared with battle royale clones and I wouldn't be surprised if huge developers would make a triple a game based on it, then watch gamers flock to that game and leave pubg like they did with h1z1. So, I think it would just be a dumb move for ms to acquire them.

i hope not. MS would ruin it for everyone

This is an extremely easy game to knock off since it is essentially a multiplayer mode. Building a franchise around this would be unwise.

I doubt it but we'll see.. Microsoft buying companies doesnt always work out.. They bought rare and now nothing.. They bought minecraft (which is still minecraft) and no new game came out yet.. They should give their devs the resources and let them make something fresh.. Without guns for crying out loud..

They can buy it in theory but the cost to buy the studio vs reward is the question. At this point the studio is making a ton of money and they would want a premium, 200 million? 500? People know MS bought Minecraft for 2bil and would want a lot for this. I just dont see how they can break even let alone turn a profit without MT hell. They will want to keep it on Xbox only and there is no deals for licensing like legos and toys and such to be had. Also other games just like it will be coming out and may hurt the playerbase, the game is a simple concept and can easily be copied (Fortnite already has) and can be added to by other studios. They may do it but it doesnt make sense to me other than saying hey we have one game thats popular right now and it isnt on PS so we blew a load on it.

That would be a bad move on both parties

Another what if article, whoo hoo. What if MS bought Sony for 50 Trillion and close down the Playstation division, what if tomorrow we woke up and Nintendo didn't exist. What if, what if. Lets stick with real stuff kids.

If MS buys PUBG and it's a big IF don't expect the game to be exclusive.
MS showed in the past that they can work with competition if money is there.

Microsoft already over past few months have new/old studios, saying there working on new projects. If the game is working for the console it would be in there best interest to acquire pubg.

Its good but not worth what he will be askin.

They better not, I want to play this game.

I'd like to see Sony use the driveclub engine and do a pubg rip off

Except Bluehole and PUBG is not for sale. Wishful thinking aside, even if Microsoft buys the company and the IP, there is no guarantee that either will flourish under Microsoft management. If recent history is anything to go by, PUBG and Bluehole are better off without Microsoft.

If they could, they would have done it already and advertised it as a true xbox exclusive but it's obvious, all microsoft got was a timed exclusive deal. Wont be long before its on ps4 imo. It's not worth it anyway for microsoft. In a few months nobody's going to be talking about pubg anymore. Why blow so much cash on just one game when you can use it to make multiple new games?

PUBG is popular, but MS is putting far too many eggs into that basket. They honestly treat PUBG as if they built the I.P. from the ground up. They are courting this game at the cost of actually developing their own games..

Everyone is making a Battle Royal game, there's no guarantee that PUBG will remain as popular when it get some real competition by games that have realistic gunplay and graphics too.

Hopefully Microsoft takes the bait.

Well they took a gamble on Minecraft well late into the games popularity and that certainly paid off for them from what I can see so repeating it again but a bit earlier in the life span isn't too far fetched imo.

what a leap in logic this is.

Did Microsoft ever DO anything with their purchase of Minecraft? Last time I checked, they own the IP, but they haven't DONE anything with it other than simply make money off sales of the game, which can't possibly recoup the huge cost of the purchase.

Seriously, if I have, say, 100 million dollars, why would I try to purchase a single gaming IP instead of, say, finding a completely new IP or funding a small indie studio to make a few games for me? It just seems a much more sensible option in the long run.

meh, let 'em have it lol it's not a system seller, and most people will play it on pc anyways. also, bluehole is worth almost 5 billion right now, so ms is gonna have to shell out some major dough to get pubg to themselves.

I'd rather MS try to buy the development for a mainline Civilization on console, only people insecure about their purchase care if somethings exclusive or not. As long as I can play it on Xbox whether it's exclusive or not makes no difference to me.

I really hope not. I have quite a few PSN friends that I know IRL and would love to play this game with them that I would buy it twice (also $30 only which is nice). I would love to play it on PSN rather than XBL. Personal preference fanboyism aside

The Taliban is so violent, dogmatic, bigoted, and sexist that it shouldn’t exist.

The Taliban, of all people.............

Is it April ?

It should be ban because it’s old and boring

lol

Really keeping the priorities straight with 3/4 of your country starving.

talk about having a serious lack of self awareness.

Irony = 100

As the Taliban decapitates people in the streets for crimes they can't even prove they've committed.

LMAO! The irony..the hypocrisy...the pot calling the kettle black.

Shooting at women who want to go to school is not violent according to those delusional fools

Shooting at people in video games will stop you from shooting at real people in real life. I can see the logic there.

I had to read the article first to make sure this isn't from Hard Drive.

OT

This is what happens when a government gets involved with entertainment.

Clown World 2022

I never knew the Taliban were comedians

i can see everyone in comments here brainwashed by western media....oh well

Violence should be on the streets and not in games :D

Well, better to just smoke some Opium and stare at some dirt and bushes instead. Remember it was the Russians that destroyed and left Afghanistan the way it is today.

Wow, that's rich coming from them. How ironic.

Lmao I will never understand why real life people stress over virtual worlds, like one of our favorite characters can come through the screen or some smdh I’m starting to think a lot of more people are mentally challenged 😂

Over there the Taliban actually think other people are too weak to resist the temptations of violent video games and when played they are taking the risk to act upon those impulses, therefore they must ban the content throughout the country wtf? In a lot of these games, the violence involves killing islamic guerilla fighters, so it's a huge blow to their ego when they see how easily they get mowed down in a firefight and how pathetically bad their aim is.

And in an unexpected plot twist...

Wait till they see GTA😂

causes the young generation to go astray”, then maybe they should keep the girls having a good education.