VentureBeat first reported that Discord, the company with roughly 140 million monthly userrs that recently raised $100 million at a $7 billion valuation, was exploring a sale worth more than $10 billion.

Discord was said to be the one who reached out to Microsoft to gauge interest in a potential sale and that Xbox head Phil Spencer has been part of these chats. While purely speculation, it’s important to consider how beneficial having a service like Discord could be for the future of communication on the Xbox platform.

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Xbox and Discord have worked together in the past, as Xbox owners have had the ability to link their Discord accounts to see what their friends are doing.

This acquisition, if it does happen, would bolster Microsoft’s continuing plans to make gaming as easy and accessible for all. It’s strategy is focused on offering its games, especially via Xbox Game Pass, on consoles, PC, and mobile, and having Discord integration could make communicating across all these platforms a much smoother process.

Owning Discord would only strengthen the value of the Xbox brand, which recently completed its $7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of developers like Bethesda, Arkane, id Software, and more.

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