Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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Senjutsu sage is getting crazier and crazier on twitter. The guy needs help.
Lol once the current deal runs out.That money is going to 1st party. Xbox got their back now. You chose your pimp hoe
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I hope twitter drives him mad and eventually it sent him to the mental institution the place where he belongs
I don’t want Xbox to die, even though I dislike Microsoft. I want them to invest in decent IPs, foster smaller studios, you know, the normal way?
why waste money on him? better spend on someone who really needs it.
Today was awesome, now I can't wait for the day when the deal is officially dead and the day when MS goes third party and kills Xbox for good.
Sony better announce their showcase this week or the next to put in the hurt.
Sony better announce their showcase this week or the next to put in the hurt.
Killerrin from resetera made a great point here:
"Realistically Microsoft is out beteeen a rock and a hard place here. With these reasonings being given by the CMA theyll find it hard to buy anything in the future. Gaming or not, if Azure or Windows gets involved in any way it'll be blocked.
So this poses a problem for Microsoft. They expand their business mainly through aquisitions, so if they can't buy a company in a market where they are the last place competitor, because of issues in Cloud on a Beta Product that is a nascent market with barely any market power behind it, with Azure and Windows being the reason for the block, then they won't be able to buy anything.
So with that in mind, Microsoft may be in a situation where they are forced to fight. Just to prevent this precedent from being set."
Isnt this what xbox fantatics wanted to happen to sony because of the arbitrary "high end market" definition? Now Microsfts REAL monoply may be used agaianst them. I persoanlly dont think that precedent holds but man what a turn.
"Realistically Microsoft is out beteeen a rock and a hard place here. With these reasonings being given by the CMA theyll find it hard to buy anything in the future. Gaming or not, if Azure or Windows gets involved in any way it'll be blocked.
So this poses a problem for Microsoft. They expand their business mainly through aquisitions, so if they can't buy a company in a market where they are the last place competitor, because of issues in Cloud on a Beta Product that is a nascent market with barely any market power behind it, with Azure and Windows being the reason for the block, then they won't be able to buy anything.
So with that in mind, Microsoft may be in a situation where they are forced to fight. Just to prevent this precedent from being set."
Isnt this what xbox fantatics wanted to happen to sony because of the arbitrary "high end market" definition? Now Microsfts REAL monoply may be used agaianst them. I persoanlly dont think that precedent holds but man what a turn.
Maybe the point is that 'competition by acquisition' is what is looked down on by regulators.
They are free to do the work to improve their products (you know, actually 'compete').
Sure, that will happen... if that is what you want you might as well wish for Xbox to be replaced by a company that can actually compete or just be happy that we have Nintendo, Sony and Valve and move on.
Xbox just keep getting in the way hoping they'll somehow be able to position themselves to become the middlemen without having to do much.
Xbox was always a terribly influence in the console market, pretty much ever since it was created.
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Owning a CLOUD service provider is inconsequential for CLOUD gaming? Your attempts of Reductio ad absurdum fail straight away. Costs have no bearing in the business size, and Intelligent Cloud has a profitability of about 10B per quarter. PER QUARTER. That's about the same profit as Sony has PER YEAR.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2023-Q3/document/viewdocument/SlidesFY23Q3.pptx
Additionally, while XCloud uses different server racks, the business scope is the same. Like, you're trying to find excuses for something that's so in your face a blind man could see.
XCloud is the biggest console Cloud service provider. Playstation Plus is not the same kind of service, and you, as someone that things they're so smart, should know this. Also, the UK not being the world has no relevance as a counter for my argument. Stop throwing shit in the hopes it sticks.
Irrelevant. Cloud marketing is a nascent market, with low barrier of entry. Allowing consolidation this early on will lead (if the market segment is successful) to less competition going forward. This shit is economics 101. Go back to school.
Irrelevant. The deal was cancelled not because of the Console SLC, but because of the Cloud SLC.
Another Reductio ad absurdum and Strawman? Fantastic. You should not only try and learn basic economic theory, but also philosophy.
Tesla has almost 4% of the car market share. Florida is the biggest banana exporter in the US. Both of those are facts. They are also fucking irrelevant to this discussion.
It's because I not only studied this whole case from the beginning, but also because I have an interest, daily contact, and a background that overlaps with finance, that I can actually make an informed comment.
Did they? I wasn't aware, but seems to me that you are. Good for you. Ah, sorry, here's a funny gif that describes what you are
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Microsoft has >$100B in cash, cash equivalents, and short term investments. They can compete in any market they want without having to rely on massive acquisitions. Hell, they could open their own bank if they wanted to. The problem is that they don't know how to compete without acquisitions and patent trolling. But that's their problem, not the market's problem.