Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

AshHunter216

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mister intuition
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Dude should just admit he's an Xbox guy.
 

Killer_Sakoman

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- ABK deal blocked
- MS having to pay ABK half of what they paid to get Bethesda.
- 30% decrease in hardware sales.
- Pathetic service growth
- 30 fps games
- Under performing hardware getting beat by an overclocked 8TF RDNA 1.5

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The only way this gets funnier is if Sony already made move to counter the ABK deal in case it did pass.
They did.
Deviation and Firewalk are working on AAA multiplayer shooters. There's always a chance they become popular and eat some of COD share
 
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Darth Vader

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I find your lack of faith disturbing
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I also think the CMA is wrong because the potential ABK exclusivity on cloud gaming wouldn't have affected the market meaningfully, and also because the cloud gaming market will continue being a tiny portion of the gaming market for at least a decade or two and that if someone has a better position to dominate it in the future it's Sony, not MS.

Of course you do, because I'm going to bet you didn't even read the documents. I'll make this simple:

A big corporation buying its way into controlling most of a nascent market will only stifle competition by raising the entry-level. Less competition means higher prices and less innovation.

A child can understand why they did this, and it's based on standard economic theory.
 

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Can someone please do a short version of what is happening? Did I miss anything ? Or is it the same MS PR and fanboys doing a lot of noise?
 

Nhomnhom

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Can someone please do a short version of what is happening? Did I miss anything ? Or is it the same MS PR and fanboys doing a lot of noise?
The ABK deal is dead, that's about it.

Dude should just admit he's an Xbox guy.
Than he show up here talking about his gut feeling and trying to find an explanation to why all his estimates are wrong and always overestimating Xbox performance.
 
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Can we finally get a Playstation showcase with all the TP console exclusive games PS partially funded now? Or would that hurt the appeal?
 
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