Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

Loy310

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Xbox has it absolutely rough this month

Its the leadership. When hard times is this consistent, frequent and it almost seems like its by design you gotta look at leadership and ask “wtf are you doing?”
MS never really had to compete, so they dont know how, they just fallback on their pile of cash and pay whatever the asking price is.
I am glad regulators are telling these giant ass companies that the money alone is not good enough. This is why so many folks are surprised by this block, we all grew up in an era where all ms, apple, google, hell even sony had to do was buy shit up. Seems them days are over.
 

Shmunter

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360 and all the catalysts that lead to its success does seem like lightening in a bottle while the stars aligned. It does seem like alot of the success was a fluke and being at the right place at the right time.
They basically adhered to the traditional console model while innovating with Xbox Live. PS3 hardware sucked, and Sony wasn’t the 1st party powerhouse it was forced to become to compete by the end of the Gen. Combination of sound business and luck.
 
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Vertigo

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Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter in the latest RDX podcast and transcribed by ResetEra was asked about whether Sony can compete with Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass in the long term.

Pachter think PlayStation is "doomed" and they will longer exist as how we know them right now in the next 10 or so years. He believes Microsoft has built up an "insurmountable lead" and Sony is more than a couple of years behind.

"I think PlayStation is doomed and I think they're going to cease to exist as we know them in about ten years," said Pachter. "They can't compete. They have no chance of competing. They're not a couple of years behind, it's an insurmountable lead."
 

Vertigo

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That was pachter at the start of this gen…

Now imagine having a michael pachter prediction as the last pearl you have left to clutch….

:ROFLMAO:

Pachter has never made an accurate prediction or even has a grasp of what he sees in front of him. Dude is a hack. Always has been a hack.
 

Dick Jones

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That was pachter at the start of this gen…

Now imagine having a michael pachter prediction as the last pearl you have left to clutch….

:ROFLMAO:

Pachter has never made an accurate prediction or even has a grasp of what he sees in front of him. Dude is a hack. Always has been a hack.
If Pachter predicted it was sunny outside
Sad Season 2 GIF by Friends
 

Nhomnhom

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What brutal take down.

Frustrated clown Jizz Corden threatening Sony 😂

I really don't understand how this idiot has a job, what is wrong with humanity?

"Microsoft could quite easily create a climate where PlayStation gamers end up deprived of more games than they would have been had Microsoft simply been allowed to complete its acquisition — and there would be little regulators could do to step in here since it would be just business deals between two free companies"

Do it then lol, burn some cash, see if anyone gives a fuck.
 

Nhomnhom

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imagine, you had a good will of UK people, second biggest market for them, and now, you just piss on them like that. instead of being professionals and respond with dignity.
now they turned UK people against themself.
Sony should release a CoD bundle this year, exclusively on the UK.
 
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