Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

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Jaffe is awesome because he bashes everyone and doesn't hold back. He says what he wants and he doesn't care who likes it or not.
 

Eternal_Wings

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This was a rumor, but EA might not last long. It will be bought by someone if the AB deal goes through

You can’t count Sony out of it. Sony will never buy huge mess like EA. They have zero to nothing from interest to Sony. The same applies for Take2. Sony will buy a pub. from Japan. This all I can see happening.
 

Yobo

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You can’t count Sony out of it. Sony will never buy huge mess like EA. They have zero to nothing from interest to Sony. The same applies for Take2. Sony will buy a pub. from Japan. This all I can see happening.
I don't see why

Only question is the slow as molasses Sony corporate taking the threat seriously and would they outlay such a big amount to secure their stake in gaming for the long term. Whether that's EA or Take2
 

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Xbox fan: Actually, they had significant releases like Pentiment (the best game released in 2022), Dusk Falls, Vampire Survivor and A Plague Tale Requiem, all in my top 5 games of 2022 alongside Persona 5. Sony on the other hand only had more boring third person cinematic games with no gameplay like Horizon Forbidden West, GT7 and God of War Ragnarok.

MS won Metacritic's Publisher of the year in 2021 and Halo Infinite was my GoTY. 2023 is going to be huge for MS with Starfield, Diablo, Call of Duty, Avowed, Fable and Hellblade 2 (the sequel to my favorite game of all time). Phil is actually not only the greatest thing to ever happen to Xbox but also the greatest mind in the games industry.

Didn't 'A Plague Tale Requiem' also release on PS and Nintendo? Maybe I'm misremembering. I've been meaning to play both it and the original release. It looks like an interesting premise and story.
 
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Zzero

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This was a rumor, but EA might not last long. It will be bought by someone if the AB deal goes through

That "rumor" looks more and more like bullshit each day. Or, alternately, EA went around kicking tires on a sale and no-one was interested, just like WBG did a few years back.

If they still want to sell today, Saudia Arabia and Tencent are probably the only two real choices. Well, maybe Comcast, but not if it means spinning off NBC/Uni so that they can invest in a video game company.
 
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That "rumor" looks more and more like bullshit each day. Or, alternately, EA went around kicking tires on a sale and no-one was interested, just like WBG did a few years back.

If they still want to sell today, Saudia Arabia and Tencent are probably the only two real choices. Well, maybe Comcast, but not if it means spinning off NBC/Uni so that they can invest in a video game company.
These rumors are out of control.
 

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I honestly don't get it. At some point you have to start demanding something.

Xbox hasn't had a PS caliber title in over 10 years. Imagine that. They scrape by indies and overhyped crap, like Halo Infinite.

And they do have some excellent IPs. Halo could have done wonders. BF2042 was a flop and COD started losing players. They could have done so much with that Halo title.
Being an xbox fanatic isnt even about gaming, its literally about destroying sony. Thats it. Thats all these guys care about.
This was a rumor, but EA might not last long. It will be bought by someone if the AB deal goes through

Why do you think apple and amazon are quiet about this deal despite having game storefronts and intrests themselves? Because when/if this one goes through they already have one lined up themselves.
 

AshHunter216

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Regulators have been so silent. CMA needs to hurry and release the final provisions.
Yeah at this point, we need to move on, Sony needs to have a showcase and they need to work on a more substantial response to some of these purchases.
 

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CMA blocking the deal would be so fucking funny, I kinda wanna see it for the chaos
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AshHunter216

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CMA blocking the deal would be so fucking funny, I kinda wanna see it for the chaos
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It would be funny, but I doubt they would after they folded with regards to their console market concerns like they did sadly.
 
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Loy310

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CMA blocking the deal would be so fucking funny, I kinda wanna see it for the chaos
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cma wont block, but i am holding out for some divestment order, that would be hilarious if they come back and say divest blizzard, or king.
 

FatKaz

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cma wont block, but i am holding out for some divestment order, that would be hilarious if they come back and say divest blizzard, or king.
I mean they already have right. That is still their current stance to divest. But yeah question will be do they still stick to that?

Allegedly Sony responded to them last week. No doubt they will be raising issues with the cloud SLC and maybe even providing a reason to reconsider the console SLC.

What would surprise me at this point is if it goes through on the 26th.
 

Zzero

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I mean they already have right. That is still their current stance to divest. But yeah question will be do they still stick to that?

Allegedly Sony responded to them last week. No doubt they will be raising issues with the cloud SLC and maybe even providing a reason to reconsider the console SLC.

What would surprise me at this point is if it goes through on the 26th.
Sony's response in regards to Cloud doesn't seem like it should matter much, Amazon and Apple (who also want to block) matter a lot more.
 

FatKaz

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Sony's response in regards to Cloud doesn't seem like it should matter much, Amazon and Apple (who also want to block) matter a lot more.
Matter alot more to who?

CMA have named Sony and Amazon as key cloud competitors to Microsoft, if we are talking about cloud right now apple are irrelevant to the CMA. Maybe something has changed I'm not aware of but that was CMAs last position.
 
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