 is Sega about to be bought by Microsoft the evidence is extremely interesting and we have to consider that obviously Microsoft has struggled to really get a foothold in Japan it's one of the major gaming territories and despite their best efforts Microsoft just can't seem to really penetrate that market making a Sega acquisition make a heck of a lot of sense but before we get into it I gotta remind you maybe a couple giveaways going on we just recently hit 50,000 subscribers if you had done down to the description we have a giveaway for an Xbox Series X PlayStation 5 or Nintendo Switch the winner for that will be drawn on December 1st that's right it's a two month giveaway but don't worry we have an October giveaway as well going on for two copies of Pikmin 3 Deluxe you can go down in the description enter that as well also let's see if we can get this video to 700 likes man we get the 700 likes or I'm just going to punt a baby out a window alright let's get into it we have some interesting information here I got this on reset error because they conveniently gathered it all together although there's one more thing to look at so Microsoft by and Sega has been a rumor for a long time and we obviously know Microsoft recently bought Bethesda or at least Xenomax owns Bethesda so that they own Bethesda now and Microsoft put out there that you know this isn't going to be like the last acquisition like Microsoft is looking to buy more studios now how many more we don't know maybe one maybe two and when you see them buy Bethesda you got to start wondering what kind of studios are they looking at we're looking at Ubisoft or Activision's and the big thing here is that to buy Sega Microsoft has to deal with the fact that it is a publicly traded company and it's actually a partner company with Sam's with Sam's and Sega so they would have to split you know Sega away or buy the overarching majority of stock in that company now they can do that it's called a takeover Microsoft could do that but then they'd have to get into the Pachinko machines and other things that the Sam side of thing has going on so I honestly think that what Microsoft would try to do is negotiate a certain percentage of shares to buy Sega's portion out to split the companies apart that is if Microsoft was even able to do this and they could probably do it for less than the 7.5 billion dollars they spent on Bethesda so it actually would be a cheaper acquisition but here's the reason why these theories are running rampant now besides the fact that Microsoft said they're going to be buying more studios so you go in here and Xbox tweeted out this clean and simple still iconic tweet the Xbox wireless controller is shock blue is a stunner optimized for next year game plan conveniently it kind of looks a little bit like Sonic he got the white on the back you got the blue on the front but what's even more interesting is when you take this this is kind of something we're gonna do but when you take the the controller and you actually go into color picker in like a Photoshop or whatever you'll see that the color blue of the controller is the exact same blue as the official Sega logo the exact same blue that key I mean that that's insane that the blue on the controller that they're releasing is the exact same Sega blue like exactly not even one shade difference not even a hair off it is literally the exact same blue now that could be a coincidence it could be but then you have things like Sega tweeting out this why is this person head down on the desk making an X with a box in front of them now it could be nothing that could just be hinting at a new game coming to Xbox as well you know a little tease you know happening at Tokyo Game Show because the rumor is essentially you know it's hit 4chan now 4chan has a rumor out there now that literally the acquisition of Sega will be announced at Tokyo Game Show and Sega's you know teasing something for Tokyo Game Show alright so that's that that's all interesting then Sega had to tweet all this why is Sonic sitting next to two to green drinks potentially teasing you know series X series S as you're seeing here you know one with the black one with the white now Sega does these little teases these little little food Sonic you know whatever things like that like this little image here it it's interesting but they do teases like this before that like that teases but like social media posts with like food objects and and their characters so this isn't unusual but what makes it interesting is that this tweet came out you know back in August kind of teasing people potentially of an acquisition that had yet to be publicly announced so it's also the timing so it got this August September stuff going on Tokyo Game Show you got Sega putting out these tweets here this clearly is an X in a box this clearly is like a green which is traditional Xbox colors with the white and the black which is very interesting I find that to be kind of convenient and obviously the Sega blue we can't ignore the Sega blue in the new controller that Microsoft announced like they literally announced this on September 21st so this just happened this just happened two days ago people are starting to put it together after Microsoft bought Bethesda that like hey man that people are already kind of wondering you know is this like what was this new Xbox wireless controller supposed to be tied to a Sonic game or something that hasn't announced yet so people were worried about that and optimized for next-gen gameplay like what what's happening is Microsoft buying Sega it would be a huge acquisition by the way it's not just about Sonic now I would assume things like Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games if Microsoft bought it would continue I don't see Microsoft ending that series Microsoft has a working relationship with Nintendo so I don't think that they would necessarily take the blue blur away from appearing on Nintendo systems especially since you know whatever it does on switch is not gonna be the same as can be shown on an Xbox Series X or Series S but there's more IPs under the Sega umbrella and this is where it gets interesting the Total War franchise is owned by Sega the Total War franchise is one of the best strategy that games period on PC I mean they just had that crossover with Warhammer and and that was an amazing an amazing Total War game Microsoft would get that in their portfolio that would fit extremely well with Microsoft extremely well with what they do on the PC space and what they're doing with Xbox it would that IP would fit so well like yeah Sonic's great and there's a history of Sonic games on Xbox of course there's a history of Sonic games on every platform you know from the Sega old Sega systems to Nintendo you know well now Nintendo they weren't on Nintendo for a while but now Nintendo systems like the last decade or so obviously PlayStation Xbox there's been a history of Sonic games on these platforms and a history of Sega games on everything so it's going to be very very interesting to see what happens here is Microsoft going to add Sega to their portfolio because the obvious reason to do it is not just to get more exclusive games it's because a lot of Sega's games perform decently well in Japan now it's extremely difficult for an American company to buy out a Japanese company it is extremely difficult Japanese companies tend to have a different a different moral system a different honor system where it makes it very difficult like you know Microsoft could in theory buy out Nintendo like Nintendo's got like 11 billion dollars in the bank that's like less than 10% of what Microsoft has in the bank and that's not even talking about what Microsoft's worth Microsoft could buy out Nintendo they could straight up buy all the shares for Nintendo they could attempt a hostile takeover but Nintendo's not stupid Nintendo won't allow it to happen Nintendo would buy up enough of their own shares that Nintendo would end up owning a majority of their own company preventing a buyout because Nintendo's not stupid that they do these these share buyouts all the time to try to increase how much of their own company Nintendo owns to prevent hostile takeovers so but Sega and Samson Sega might not care as much because you know that there's been some struggles at Sega over the years the Sega games haven't always performed well Sonic seems to be turning things around but that's more recent it'll be interesting to see if this is something that comes true and we don't have to wait long Tokyo game show is coming up this weekend guys remember what we're gonna have to age a calamity stuff you guys know I'm gonna be attempting to livestream that assuming things line up in my life I will be attempting to live stream the age of calamity news you know that we have the monster hunter stuff coming as well we'll see if I live stream I gotta make sure I hope there's some English version of these and I'm not just reacting to Japanese footage and stuff but we'll see what happens you know we'll see what happens I'm just oh boy man I'm rubbing my hands over here in excitement over this potential acquisition now you might say why why would you be excited about this you know you weren't you know but what about the Bethesda stuff like I think that if Microsoft got this it would actually be a boon to Sega because they can inject funding into that company because I do think Sega needs some more funding that they're not currently getting just my personal opinion now one thing that you could worry about with Nintendo is the Bayonetta IP I would assume that Microsoft would want that Bayonetta IP back even though Nintendo owns the rights to two and three it's entirely possible that Microsoft and Nintendo can negotiate something there because Nintendo since they own the rights to two and three and Microsoft can't just take those games and republish them so I do think there would be an agreement worked out where Bayonetta would become just a multi-platform game between Nintendo and Microsoft which I don't think is a bad thing you know console exclusive games are great but I think multi-platform games are better for in some regards there are certain times where exclusives are really really good because they take better advantage of the hardware Zelda being an exclusive game it'd be cool if it was on everything but it will take better advantage of the given hardware by being exclusive same for Sony's stuff same for Microsoft so anyways thank you guys for tuning in I entertain the RoboJets from Nintendo Prime let me know what you think about this potential acquisition and I'll catch you in the next one