PlayStation Is Hiring For A Manager To Identify "Inorganic Growth Opportunities Through Acquisitions & Investments".
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I'm just mentioning what it was discussed with regulators, what MS, the regulators and Sony said and shown.
Activision Blizzard games are mostly AAA games, that in most cases need high end hardware so can't run on Switch because it has low end hardware because it's more focused on being a handheld. And their users are more focused on exclusives than in any other platform because many people have a Switch as secondary console and prefer to play the multis on a better version, unless it's for portable reasons.
Nintendo has a different focus and for these or other reasons they don't almost have Activision Blizzard games, so they didn't count Nintendo. They didn't think this acquisition wasn't going to affect Nintendo, because they are perfectly happy without CoD.
In EU the PS vs Xbox is 80%-20%, they shown the receipts and even MS accepted it in a pretty embarassing way.
If you want you can also count mobile and PC to make Sony's market share smaller. In that case, Sony's barely has around 15%, MS around 8% and ABK around 4%.
CoD only affects under 8% of the PS MAU and revenue. And Sony has a ton of other 3rd party shooters, many of them super successful, plus now they are working on several 1st party ones.
They will be perfectly fine even if in 10 years in the future they lose CoD.
It exists and was mentioned in the documents related to the investigations of the regulators. Don't be a negationist.
I am mentioning facts, and that was mentioned as an example in the investigations of the FTC: the CMA, the EU and from MS themselves.
If you believe that Sony doesn't have a 80% vs 20% lead in EU (or maybe higher in places like Japan) or that the Switch popular high end AAAs lilke the Activision Blizzard ones are on Switch then you're the one with a false premise, not me.
No regulator in the world had any issue with Nintendo, they only focused on the potential damage to PS because they were the only ones possibly affected by the acquisition, but after properly investigating it they gave the ok and MS got the free pass with consoles.
The only regulator worried is the CMA for the potential future of the cloud gaming.
Because they have no clue what they are doing it seems When it comes to this kind Of stuff
Agreed. It would be the worst acquisition personally for me. Hit them where it hurts. CDPR, Sega, Capcom, Konami ip, FromSoft. Even if its a deal that stop MS acquiring the company. Sony partnering or buying percents of companies to secure there future