It'd be nice if Playtonic did buy at least some of the IPs from Rare Limited.
Instead of just sitting there, as stated PT would try to do something, which would turn out great, and...

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However Microsoft's lobby of gits would refuse because they want more money. If Rare made a game that didn't sell well, then MS would probably try to run a bus into their offices or something because they didn't make enough money.
I might as well just look to indie development as companies get lazier and lazier... MS slapped a start menu and added a few tweaks to its last OS and slapped the name Windows 10 on it, for god's sake...