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Microsoft Withdraws From Sports Video Games
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Microsoft Corp. will stay out of the sports video game market for now, except in racing, leaving most of the category to other publishers such as Ubisoft and EA sports. Microsoft said it sold the assets of its team sports games -- baseball, basketball, football and hockey -- to French publisher Ubisoft . It had previously sold the studio and assets behind its tennis, golf and snowboarding games to Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
While terms of the Ubisoft deal were not disclosed, the deal does not leave Microsoft an opening to reuse the intellectual property in question. The one sports category where Microsoft will continue to compete, is racing. "Project Gotham Racing" is a key franchise for the Xbox, and it will soon release another race game, "Forza Motorsport."
Kim did not rule out a return to sports on future hardware platforms. Microsoft is universally expected within the games industry to release a new version of the Xbox this holiday season.
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