These same losers have been gloating for months that the FTC would stand to lose in their trail against Microsoft. It's very convenient that only now, is the CMA's success rate in trails a concern. It certainly wasn't a concern when the Nvidia/ARM deal was blocked, now was it? Although I'm sure people like TypicScroll would've felt differently if it were MS trying to acquire ARM and it ended up blocked.
Trust me, if MS won their appeal to the CMA for ABK, then say Apple tried purchasing EA and the CMA blocked it and won the appeal, NONE of these cappers would be complaining about it being a "show trail" or autocracy, would they? It's only a problem when the company behind their favorite plastic box can't get what they want through money alone.
Listen to him gasp loudly in between sentences. He sounds so scared about the future of his favourite plastic box/megacorp.
It almost sounds like a grown man crying.
Mummy!!! *sobs* Sony is... *sobs* trying to take ALL MY TOYS *sobs* AWAY FROM MEEE!! *sobs* WHAAAAAAAAAA
TBF he's probably also gasping because it might be tiring the big guy out talking that much, that fast in such a short span of time. That's a cardio workout for him.
Sony is clearly going to have to sign a deal with Microsoft over Call of Duty n--*sobbing begins*
In other great news even Reeee's rats are coming around to the reality. No new acquisitions of any consequence for Microsoft in the gaming space:
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Gaming is saved!!
And, hilariously, it means Sony can still make publisher acquisitions because they don't have a foothold in cloud gaming.
"Distant second place" yes and Sony got to 1st by buying up giant publishers over the past five years, amirite?
Publisher acquisitions were always only going to be stopgaps in boosting Xbox's revenue. That was the case with Zenimax and would've been the case with ABK if approved. The merits of needing to buy publishers in order to boost the gaming division's revenue is already questionable, but Microsoft trying for one immediately after Zenimax did not set a good precedent.
I genuinely don't think MS would have any problems getting studios like Certain Affinity. In fact, I think they
SHOULD get those studios for reasons such as rebuilding Halo into something that can be respected again. I think they could probably even get a few small-ish Japanese developers or South Korean teams without too many issues. Whoever's making that rumored 2D side-scrolling action-RPG for them...not saying the team isn't talented but I've seen their other RPG and the artstyle just isn't very cool IMO. But what if that were say Vanillaware making the game instead? Would immediately be on a lot of people's radar.
But really you look at MS's current team count with XGS & Zenimax...how is that not enough to actually compete? It's more than enough. A few extra studios would help I'm sure; not that many more but I'd say Certain Affinity, IO Interactive, Crystal Dynamics and Avalanche would be prime pick-ups (they can work out deals for them with the current owners to buy), or they could try replacing one of them with a Japanese team like Vanillaware or Level 5, or Platinum Games. Hell maybe even Arc System Works for an in-house fighting team.
Even if they can't acquire them (Arc has a strong publishing relationship with Bandai-Namco, I don't know if MS wants to infringe on that 3P partner relationship), why not fund them to make a new anime-style Killer Instinct? If they can't acquire Vanillaware, why not have them make a 2D side-scrolling Kingdom Hearts-style game with Xbox IP and...I dunno...Dreamworks IP?
That's the kind of investments and studio acquisitions I'd prefer Microsoft to focus on, not encouraging mass industry consolidation of big 3P publishers.
One thing about this whole acquisition process that I noticed is it really emboldened some of the most ridiculous influencers, "journalists", and fanboys. Some are undoubtedly paid to astroturf, some are just dumb, and some are both (like Jez here), but as the Ls keep piling up for MS - I hope we start to hear less and less from these fools.
It also emboldened the xenophobes, racists, and homophobes. Some of the stuff on Twitter over this acquisition has just been very toxic, and I never once saw anyone at Xbox or Microsoft put out a statement asking the crazies to calm down, because it was pretty much coming from radicals on that side of the fence.
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