Microsoft wants you to own nothing and you'll be happy too but it'll kill traditional gaming in the process
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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I bet it will be Square Enix. You need consider that Sony buying publisher is not just for PlayStation division needs. It will be a publisher who shares a lot of synergies within the Sony Group corporation. Means music, anime, manga, mobile gaming, GaaS. Sony won’t go after big and bloated western pubs.
Tell me, what do you hope for as the end goal? Really curious. You seem like someone that thinks of himself as pretty knowledgeable. So just tell me what positive aspects it will have when Microsoft acquires Sega and other developers next.I know, right?
But yeah, as you can see right now, the deal will go through next week.
It's over.
Microsoft will own ZeniMax Media, Activision, Blizzard and another ~18 studios next week.
Sega, Asobo Studio, IO Interactive and Certain Affinity are next.
Yeah, because Sony is going to block COD on PlayStation. That's totally going to happen.
Sony got almost 1 billion of revenue in just one year, in just one region from COD.
They will say "Thank you Daddy Microsoft" until Microsoft has enough and stops making PlayStation ports.
COD is too powerful. That's why MS is spending $70 billion for Activision-Blizzard.
Or is it just for the sake of trolling?
How reliable is that source? I'd suspect Microsoft lawyers are feeding them.
The CMA asking for a pause is a strange approach to take when the CMA's case is so strong and their global block so definitive. The only thing that does make sense is the CMA showing they're willing to negotiate on divestiture remedies - AB, or A, or COD - but there's no reason to rush it before MS' deadline - that was self-imposed.
It is huge:
Sony accidentally revealed how much money Call of Duty is worth to PlayStation.
We knew it was over a billion dollars, but PlayStation boss Jim Ryan's unredacted letter suggests CoD represented $800 million in PlayStation revenue in the United States alone, and — I think that says $1.5 billion, right? — worldwide. (That's in 2021 specifically.)
Those players represent way more money to Sony than that, though: Ryan says CoD players spend (what looks to me like) $15.9 billion per year, on average, on everything else they buy.
Then again, some PlayStation gamers play nothing but CoD, we just learned.
Going after a big publisher is something they're going to have to do. MS bought publishers and their games are popular on PlayStation.
Square? All of their games are popular on PS and not a factor on Xbox..
When the ABK deal was announced I said think sony should go after bungie, fromsoftware, Square enix, and have insomniac expand a third team to create a multiplayer game focused on marvel stuff. I wouldnt say thats greater than or equal to MS owning call of duty but i think thats a fair trade off for my gaming tastes. MS first party is basically non existent save for bethesda who makes 1 game every 10 years and now Cod. Guarantee alot of talent leaves in the near future and they run that franchise into the ground.
Like MS in house first party is non existent because its so mismanaged. So the only teams they have that matter are Bethesda proper, the doom team, and soon the cod devs. Like its alot of style but little substance, especially if cod is staying multiplat for the foreseeable future.
Like MS in house first party is non existent because its so mismanaged. So the only teams they have that matter are Bethesda proper, the doom team, and soon the cod devs. Like its alot of style but little substance, especially if cod is staying multiplat for the foreseeable future.
I don't know how reliable, but I thought it might be something since it's sources from CNBC
It's huge yes, but so what? What I'm trying to say is that Sony needs to let go of its gigantism.
I saw someone on another forum claim a positive from this would be SONY and Microsoft being forced to work closer together and I just wanted to vomit everywhere. "Microsoft isn't creating a monopoly... oh btw, maybe SONY will now be forced to work with them" lol
That's not been his point though. His point was not responsive, his point is Sony is doomed because they weren't pre-emptively anti-competitive and didn't choke out the Xbox division. That's not a reasonable position, imo.
I'm anti-consolidation and I know they're going to have to buy things now, that's the reality we're in. No one's argued against that point. I'm arguing against his insistence that Sony is doing and has done NOTHING and has "already given up".
Nobody has said anything about divestiture remedies being the only way. All we know is that the CMA is back to the table, which is a great sign for MS. CMA could of force them to the CAT.
Classic PlayStation OT.
They don't wanna hear it. Some of them want to act like buying multiple publishers (especially Activision-Blizzard) won't change anything.
They're trying to silence people with the "you're just doom-posting" copy & paste posts.
CMA wanted a full divestiture of Activision and to sell off COD.
So I don’t know what this small divestiture is about.
Looks like comity does have bearing here, eh luke? CMA is back to the table. Comity is real
No they didn't. Bobby has said they never told them that. And that isn't reasonable for them anyway.