In case you'd forgotten, Xbox is kicking off the the Tokyo Games Show tomorrow, September 24th with a 50 minute showcase, but Microsoft has warned fans not to expect any acquisition news to come out of the event.
This follows a fresh bout of admittedly shaky speculation over the past 24 hours that the company might be planning to buy Sega, but as expected, Microsoft says it has nothing to announce in Tokyo:
"…and btw, there won’t be any new acquisition news at the show"
The showcase itself will be broadcast entirely in Japanese and will celebrate Japanese game creators & games, provide update news for Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC and focus on the Japanese Minecraft community, with no new Xbox Series X/S news scheduled for the event whatsoever.
If you fancy catching it though, it'll be live on the Tokyo Game Show YouTube channel at 8AM ET / 1PM BST.
Will you be tuning into the Tokyo Games Show on Thursday? Let us know below.
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I figured they wouldn’t announce anything noteworthy at a conference in Japan.
I guess it's true that it'd be too soon to announce another acquisition. However, I'm still not writing off the possibility of a SEGA acquisition/partnership in the future. It just makes sense given Microsoft's history with them, the "hints" on Twitter and their need of more Japanese franchises in their portfolio.
I just hope they can make a deal with sega to bring all of their IP to xbox like persona franchise and yakuza
Personally, I expect the Japanese xCloud Launch date. Update on some known Japanese games coming to XBox. And maybe, and this is a big maybe, info on a new game.
I am holding off buying Yakuza 7 with 50% discount currently on Japanese PSN until I have seen what Microsoft announces.
If Yakuza 7 ends up coming to Game Pass, I can save myself 100%.
But more than anything, I am hoping for xCloud news for Japan.
Is SEGA at the conference? Maybe they will announce a partnership? Lol. Reaching i know. Anyways i don't expect them to be bought, a deal to bring some games into gamepass though. Isn't that Fantasy star online a SEGA game?
@Krzzystuff the Sega stream is at 7am EDT on Friday
Yes PSO2 is Sega.
I could be wrong, but I would say we should not expect any large aquisition news until after the Zenimax deal goes through. These deals take time and, I have a feeling, are harder to get through regulatory bodies if you are doing too many large acquisitions at once.
It's not a big deal for me if no more acquisition news is announced. I have had more than enough good Xbox news this week!
Xbox will likely come to a gamepass deal with sega.
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