Breaking: Microsoft to acquire Activision-Blizzard in near 70$ billion deal
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GriffinCorp
Member
Holy Cow XBOX is KILLING IT!
State of Play with a bunch of indies
purpletentacle
Member
will be curious to see if this passes regulators here and in the EU.
Papacheeks
Banned
This to me is why I'm miffed. Call of duty and properties like Overwatch, diablo are good gets. But outside of call of duty nothing has set the world on fire in a while by ACTI/BLIZZARD. When Skylanders is all but dead, Spyro and crash remakes sold well, but crash 4 did not do super well. Tony hawk Remaster sold well but vangaurd under performed?
So I don't know.
But yea be nice if Microsoft figured their shit out in running studios like 343, rare, before buying up literally giant companies. ANd not Microsoft will be associated with the dumpster fire that is the Activision scandal. If I'm sony I'm laughing. Because it shows that Microsoft internally had to buy their way in, and could not fix their internal issues within how to run a gaming division.
balls of snow
Gold Member
Im scared guys.
Nickolaidas
Banned
They're going to buy an indie dev, put 3 PS4 games on Steam, and buy exclusivity on a Capcom game to be Sony only for 5 months.
MS shaking in their boots, right now.
BattleScar
Member
Until Microsoft double the subscription fee. Or decide something is not inclusive enough or is too problematic and delete it forever.
This is heading hard and fast down the monopoly route.
Davevil
Late October Surprise
tmlDan
Member
Aren't they trying to revamp the MS store, at this rate MS can say fuck steam and make their own platform lol
For the FTC and more importantly the courts to decide
People said the same thing about Bethesda and Disney/Fox.
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
Before the age of pachinko for Konami?
Alter_Fridge
Member
I like how every generation since Xbox/PS1, either side seems to be winning
Status Quo is shit
All my favourite franchises are still Sony side (Starfield is the only M$ exclusive making me think twice)
Status Quo is shit
All my favourite franchises are still Sony side (Starfield is the only M$ exclusive making me think twice)
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cyberheater
PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 Xbone PS4 PS4
Biggest bombshell I've seen in years. Just wow.
Jaybe
Member
Tencent is basically an arm of the Chinese government.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Starfield? Elder Scrolls? The same logic should apply to those, but they are now Xbox exclusives (or rather, prevented from being on PlayStation). The same will happen here.
Phil likes to act all "I think gamers should be able to play everything everywhere", but that's all empty PR nonsense. He can't wait to rip popular franchises from the hands of PlayStation gamers so they have to buy an Xbox instead.
SportsFan581
Member
Honestly. Buying Valve would probably be one of the best investments they could make. It already makes money and would allow them to make GP a steam feature. Valve guy seems passionate about his company though, probably not selling, LOL.
aliadiere25
Member
By releasing actual good games.
balls of snow
Gold Member
So like..sony is the new nintendo now right.
Lognor
Banned
That's not going to do anyone any good anymore. I at least expect Sony to get marketing rights to battlefield. It makes sense fit ea to partner with Sony now since they will own that market on PlayStation
Nautilus
Banned
Oh yes, OH YES.
The only silver lining in this is that Starcraft might come back.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
VERY interesting move. Especially if you think about all the IP in possession combined as the basis of a streaming sub service (GP on TVs, tablets etc.).
Console wars are old and over.
The streaming war is the current war and MS got a lot of content to stream.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.001
Big deal like Zemimax.
Makoto-Yuki
Banned
easily. it seems a lot of people don't realise how much money they have. put it this way...the only company that MS can't afford is Apple. MS could theoretically buy Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tencent, Nintendo, Nvidia, Intel, or AMD.
Jebron
Member
This honestly is the opposite of what I was hoping for with Microsoft. I would rather have them invest and grow studios organically with new IP's and experiences. I haven't played an ABK game for almost 4 years and I don't intend to play one for probably another 4. What a waste of $70B.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Well if it's one thing from skimming the thread that these threads remind me of is the incessant fanboy fodder, flame bait, and trolling.
My reaction to this is much like when I read about the Bethesda purchase, this group is worth less and has less equity than they once did. I hope they manage to find the right stuff otherwise right now it just seems like a bunch of marketing and call of duty.
Funny stuff I bought from Activision Blizzard has been Diablo I own a couple of the call of duty games because I got them they're cheap on battlenet but I can't say this excites me unless you want to get into what I said before, the trolling and fodder to the end of the world.
My reaction to this is much like when I read about the Bethesda purchase, this group is worth less and has less equity than they once did. I hope they manage to find the right stuff otherwise right now it just seems like a bunch of marketing and call of duty.
Funny stuff I bought from Activision Blizzard has been Diablo I own a couple of the call of duty games because I got them they're cheap on battlenet but I can't say this excites me unless you want to get into what I said before, the trolling and fodder to the end of the world.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Sony market cap: 154 billion dollars
MS market cap: 2.3 trillion dollars
I don't think Sony could afford Take Two, but perhaps Ubisoft (market cap 6.5 billion) or Square Enix (5.6 billion). But even if those companies are up for sale, MS could easily put in a higher bid. Sony cant compete financially up with the second biggest company on the planet.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I hope the government doesn't approve the merger.
Thirty7ven
Banned
This is the company some people stan for? Wake up sheep.
Bartski
Gold Member
While I couldn't care less about CoD, Overwatch, and pretty much any other ActiBlizz franchise, Diablo 4 looks ok I guess ... this is a SEISMIC industry move by MS acquiring all those studios and franchises.
Also, leadership change means both instant public eye perception fix, as well as a get out of jail free card for the top exec team not having to clean up their shit... Has it been confirmed Kotick is leaving?
Simply AMAZING.
Also, leadership change means both instant public eye perception fix, as well as a get out of jail free card for the top exec team not having to clean up their shit... Has it been confirmed Kotick is leaving?
Simply AMAZING.
Gaben is old MS. Eventually they all return home.
oldergamer
Member
Are they even worth 70 billion? this price seems odd to me. Also a pretty odd buy out target.
treemk
Banned
I think well over 50% of the IPs they buy will end up in the dumpster. Everyone knows they have money but they have yet to prove they can foster quality creative development.
Airbus Jr
Banned
The only way for sony or nintendo to combat this ( if Xbox decided to buy every multiplatform developers to starve sony or nintendo)
Is by building more first party studios
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
Nintendo never got those games anyway other than a few old ports.
Sony on the other had will be impacted pretty badly by this.
Sony does not have to prove anything. They have been producing a steady stream of quality games for decades. and Just like Microsoft, they have been acquiring studios left and right. Their approach is different in that they buy studios they have synergy with. Sony does not have to purchase sega or SE because they can produce better titles in-house. but, Microsoft is starting to make really hard for me not to buy a Series X.
