If Microsoft Buys SEGA, who will lose the most?

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If Microsoft buys SEGA, who will hurt or lose the most? There has been a rumor of �Microsoft buying SEGA� and well if Microsoft did buy SEGA what would happen. If Microsoft buys SEGA the most that will get hurt are Sony and Nintendo (obviously). Nintendo and Sony would be without SEGA games, that means no Sonic (the new one coming out Unleashed), Shenmue 3, Virtua Fighter and many more. Although all Sonic games so far after Sonic Adventures have been very shoddy, Sonic Unleashed looks to be changing that.

SEGA need to be able to publish games on multiple platforms if they want to stay in the business and do well. SEGA needs to prove that they still have it in them with their games and they have shown that recently, with some of their games. Sonic has proved to have a great success after migrating to the Nintendo platform, mainly because Sonic games are generally geared towards the family market, and not the hardcore gamer. Sonic the Hedgehog (360, PS3) was ok, but nothing like it should have been like the originals.

If Microsoft were to buy SEGA though, it will hurt Nintendo the most. Nintendo is a family gaming division and the games that SEGA puts out are mostly for family�s (not all of them, but some of them). Games like Sonic, SEGA Rally, SEGA GT, and a couple of others will not be on the Nintendo system. They are not first party games, but SEGA is one of Nintendo�s major 3rd party publisher and if they lose them then most of their games will be crap. The users for Nintendo will only be looking forward to 1st party games and will eventually give up on 3rd party games. Sony will not be as hurt as Nintendo. Sony has a huge 3rd party support even without SEGA. SEGA is in there publishing for Sony, but the PS3 will not be hit as hard as the Wii.

Now if Microsoft went through with this and bought out SEGA, what will happen to the games that are in development already for other consoles? Will the continue to be developed and sold or will they just be dropped? What would happen to the Sonic team? Will changes be taking place? For the better or for the worse?

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