tom warren from the verge and even that tweaktown writer's article actually get spread pretty far on socials. jez destin and benji are bottom of the barrel bloggers.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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because activision did it before with world of warcraft. MMO subs are coming to normal games, they'll just be a different incentive. season passes or whatever they want to call it, but in sub form.
I miss numbers and clicks, but gamer will rarely get lost there. I mean, despite so much FUD and promises after years, the Xbox numbers are going down pretty sharply 2 years after the realease.. And Gamepass is stagnant despite the biggest propaganda from MS this industry has ever seen.
The MS economist looked like she produced a good testimony, but the FTC cross established she could not speak to anticompetitive incentives post-merger. She also focused her definitions of the markets on what's happening on Xbox, which the Nvidia exec offered a counterpoint to.
Her most erroneous take, and I didn't see it challenged, was that B2P and MGS were substitutions and therefore part of the same market because when games left the service, sales went up. That's not substitutability in the economic sense. That's the fact that the game is no longer available in one market, so consumers need to satisfy their desire to play that game. Substitutability is what FTC economist Lee described, which is looking at what happens if Xbox raises GP prices by $1, or Netflix does, which they'd be enabled to by monopolistic hold on content. People don't suddenly go out and buy games still available on the service.
Judge Corley also still clearly sees COD as unique in gaming despite MS efforts to downplay.
Her most erroneous take, and I didn't see it challenged, was that B2P and MGS were substitutions and therefore part of the same market because when games left the service, sales went up. That's not substitutability in the economic sense. That's the fact that the game is no longer available in one market, so consumers need to satisfy their desire to play that game. Substitutability is what FTC economist Lee described, which is looking at what happens if Xbox raises GP prices by $1, or Netflix does, which they'd be enabled to by monopolistic hold on content. People don't suddenly go out and buy games still available on the service.
Judge Corley also still clearly sees COD as unique in gaming despite MS efforts to downplay.
Did anyone save the unredacted Sony document?
Update: It's available in Archive.org
Update: It's available in Archive.org
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This thread is a goldmine and judge hasn't locked it yet:
www.resetera.com
The Verge: Microsoft wanted to acquire Square Enix as part of plan for mobile Game Pass
If people don't think Playstation has documents and research about publisher acquisitions they are in LaLa land.
www.resetera.com
Kirby fake engine Dev, is the pigeon boy also there?
Maybe he's trying to hide his biasThis thread is a goldmine and judge hasn't locked it yet:
The Verge: Microsoft wanted to acquire Square Enix as part of plan for mobile Game Pass
If people don't think Playstation has documents and research about publisher acquisitions they are in LaLa land.
Cuz he's getting exposed everywhere
And Sony fans are finally starting to get annoyed
Reeeeee Lost the Asian community and wrestling community Nintendo community sells community and if this stupidity continues they will lose the Playstation community soon
The activity in that stupid forums is declining every year
Reee telling us how they really feel about the acquisition outside of MS' safe space thread.
You love to see it. When this deal fails and Xbox goes into the gutter with it, no tears will be shed.
Still a bit of "Sony too!!!" In there but at least it's getting ridiculed. In response to some twat saying single game exclusivity deals are even worse!!!1!!
Here's a newsflash, not Sony too. MS as a company grows through acquisitions. They do not have the talent or the vision to grow otherwise. So while yes, it's obvious they're always considering mergers, it's not "standard business practice" to write emails saying how you'll use money to drive your competition out of business or plot anticompetitive mergers in an industry you're not able to self sufficiently compete in, and I'm sick of having brain-dead degenerates who've never held a corporate job in their lives tell me otherwise.
Straight from the horses mouth.
It's bad for them because a lot of info about shit MS practices were out. Too bad we already have everything. Took them too long to remove it.
Yeah but it's not a market market, if you know what I mean
too late cats out of the bag
This is tbh. very good thing that happened. This will probably if not already happened, opening Sony‘s eyes to take some cash and invest/acquire fully a publisher themselves.