I would think that any divesting would result in an independent Activision/COD rather than anyone buying them. I'm also not sure how much I trust the speculation from the superjoost article. I'm not seeing what Sony would have to gain by suddenly deciding to let Xbox have control of COD.
It isn’t Sony’s decision to make, and the divestiture guidelines that the CMA wrote up would have COD detached from everything else Activision, as a separate entity.
Nope, and even if Sony and MS are actually coming to some kind of agreement (big if), that doesn't guarantee the cma will suddenly accept the deal. The story seems weird since Sony and MS seem to still be fighting via the FTC subpoena situation and Sony are supposedly going to the hearing next week to protest the deal. This wouldn't make sense if they are close to an agreement.
Sony and MS coming to any sort of agreement and that making any difference is fanboy cope fiction.
I would agree. The ones who think that Sony's opposition is the reason the deal has faced so much scrutiny are delusional. This deal would have had problems even if Sony had been in favor of it for some reason. (for the sake of argument)
For record l, I don’t believe it myself but let’s entertain the idea. IF Sony met with Microsoft to discuss the activsion deal, in spite of winning in every regulatory body that matters so far, it would be because Sony has extracted every thing they want from an agreement with Microsoft AND have acquisitions of their own they plan on making relatively soon, because they don’t want to shut the door entirely on industry acquisitions. That or Microsoft has told them they intend to leave the console market and that’s a condition Sony would agree to endorse the deal. With that said I think it’s fanboy cope and day dreams and I don’t think Sony has met with Microsoft, in Seattle.
I also just realized that any theoretical talks could also potentially be legal/subpoena related rather than about COD.
As to your last part I think that suits Sony just fine. They invested in epic and from software, probably sqaure enix too judging from their behavior. I think Sony prefers investments and partnerships than outright acquisitions, unless it’s a smaller tried and tested already established partnership. We’ll see though.
He is giving out large amounts of hopium.
I agree and that will set a example for MS or other companies to be upfront and honest about their reasons to acquire more large gaming developers or publishers. They downplayed the reason so they should only get King and have to sell off the rest.
They're now getting into conspiracy theories about flights and think that Sony gave up on fighting the deal because they're afraid of getting in trouble over 3rd party exclusives. Seems like copium.
I really hope this deal fails.
it is beyond copium, i am afraid.
That Lawyer (Florian) sneaks in a lot of "maybe", "supposedly" and "probably" into his tweets, rendering his 'facts' as nothing more than speculation and opinion.
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