If anything this will do the opposite because of how big ABK is and how much it makes. They don't need to buy anything else to be competitive. So this would (should) actually make future purchases more difficult.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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pfft, gave up on ms 20 years ago, they nicked and dimed the fuck out of me in college, went nearly broke paying them so i could have access to tools that i needed to complete my studies.
Naughty Dog has one. Sucker Punch has one. Bend Studio has one. Santa Monica is working on one, per Cory Barlog. Guerrilla is working on Horizon 3.
Just because they're not formally announced doesn't mean we don't know they're being made. We've seen the job listings and the type of projects they were for. This is the same way we know most of those GaaS titles exist.
By your logic, half their GaaS titles don't even exist then either, as they've yet to be formally announced.
Can we please chill out and stop attacking each other?
Get along.
If you can not, just block each other. Simple.
I can see that the veil has finally fallen from some and Staff have noticed.
Agreed. The same arguments they made to make this purchase don't really work anymore.
Great, we'll get to enjoy them in 2026 or later, impressive.
Yep, those documents existed all along, pretty much laying out MS plans to outspend PlayStation out of business. Any regulator that was interested saw them yet with all that the deal ended up being approved pretty much everywhere and where it wasn't MS was able to bully regulators into buckling so it was all a big display of how MS get to do whatever they want.
This is what I’m expecting it happens, but I’m not that hopeful.
Holy sweet Jesus, the ridiculous things people spout on this forum...
Huh? Team Asobi is working on SP game, Sucker Punch too. Bend too. Why doomposting
Huh? I think we will see Sucker's game much earlier than that
So they better announce it soon. The last single player game made by PlayStation was announced almost 2 years ago and will release more than 2 years after it was first announced.
Right now second party and third party deals are covering the massive drought of traditional releases.
Investment in Live Services is still ramping up while it will take close to 6 years for investment in traditional games to comeback to pre-Covid levels.
If this is their plan to go against this new MS that is buying up everything than it's over for them.
Oh no, games in development take time to come out, whatever shall we do?
I'm sorry they're not panicking and revealing their entire development slate to help you feel better, fam. Truly.
Lot of dudes gonna nuke their accounts on gav, era and on here today and the next few weeks. All this did was divided gamers.
What a nightmare though for the industry and gamers overall. I fear Microsoft won't stop here. We know their end game now, if they can buy the biggest publisher then, what's really off limits now?
FTC filing this injunction fully backfired.
FTC filing this injunction fully backfired.
I'm pretty sure the opposite reasoning can be applied. If none of the arguments applied to the biggest multiplatform publisher around, then no argument would be able to work for even smaller japanese publishers. This block was needed as a ceiling on how far MS would be allowed to go. Letting this acquisition through means there is absolutely no publisher big or small that isn't allowed, as they now have the precedence from the courts for it.
As opposed to... not filing it and letting it go through regardless?
Nah, the biggest issue was that a judge who knows NOTHING about gaming was the one deciding its future.
Stuff we already knew. Nobody was worried about WWS output except trolls. The IP retention war Sony is losing is worrying.