None of us know that and i wouldnt be surprised if they felt embolded now.
So what ever happened to that uber lawyer sony hired for tough acquisitions?
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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So what ever happened to that uber lawyer sony hired for tough acquisitions?
I still maintain it was a mistake for sony to fight so hard to block this instead of making their own acquisitions.
With minecraft, cod, elder scrolls, and diablo, MS acquired it's way into gaming's biggest franchises with absolutely no pushback. Thank god for sony first party or I'd completely check out of this hobby.
Yep, same. Ever since MSFT has entered the market, things have gotten progressively worse and for the past 2-3 years I've been thinking of leaving this hobby behind me, since I'm getting tired of all this stuff. I enjoy it less and less and days like today just make not want to play at all. I own every console, but that doesn't mean I like all the decisions these three companies make. And the fact that MSFT can just get away with this acquisition, possibly opening the gates for even worse practices in the future, just fills me with sadness.
Sony needs to accept that these little support studio and garage start up studios is no longer the only thing they can do. They need established, recognizable IP. A bargaining chip or 2 should microsoft pull anymore franchises. Thye should be wrapping up a deal with square enix right now, and looking for whats next. instead their on the back foot.
Square? That isn't a chip on the level of COD and all the other IP's of ABK...
They need TakeTwo at very least.
But I agree with your sentiment very much.
It's absurdo how MS simply buys the biggest IPs there are. They're not buying Mario and Zelda simply because it's not for sale.
Square has ff14 which i assume would be a revenue machine for a first party. I maintain that sony shouldve went after square instead of wasting their time burning bridges fighting this deal. Consolidation is here to stay whether they like it or not.
So i assume divestiture is competley off? Or have they only just said the console concerns are no longer valid.
You've at least been a good sport about this unlike some of the other Xbox fans right now.Well that happened
Indeed, I didn't support this deal and deemed it a complete waste of time.
I thought it was dead at the start of the year tbh.
First order of business should be Invest heavily in, or outright buy Square enix and up the investment in fromsoftware. Acquire Firewalker, deviation, emberlabs, arrowhead assuming their next game looks special. Sony dragging their feet after the zenimax deal i think has put them in a bad spot.
As a side note, do we know if destiny lightfall was a big success? I havent seen good reviews of it, one of the main characters is extemely polarizing, and i havent seen much talk about after its initial launch.
Yeah, it is what it is. Some view this as payback for what happened to the XB1.