For nylig kunne en analytiker med rødder i den japanske tech-branche slå fast, at det vil blive ret svært for Microsoft at købe japanske studier grundet særlig lovgivning, der skal forhindre fjendtlig overtagelse.
Men det ville være en del lettere, hvis det var noget et pågældende studie selv ønskede, og alt tyder på at PlatinumGames faktisk er ret åbne overfor et muligt Microsoft-køb, særligt hvis de får samme frihed som Activision Blizzard lader til at få. I et interview med VGC siger CEO Atsushi Inaba følgende:
"The most important thing for us is to have the freedom to make the games that we want to make. What I hear about the recent acquisitions, I don't think Microsoft is going to start micromanaging Activision to where they take away all their freedom... I don't think it's going to be a relationship like that."
"I think there's going to be a lot of mutual respect there and I think Activision will be able to continue doing what they do best. That's also what's most important to us at the end of the day, whatever form that takes for us and our company. So I would not turn anything down, as long as our freedom was still respected."
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