DonJorginho
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Breaking: Microsoft to acquire Activision-Blizzard in near 70$ billion deal
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Riky
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Because you get native downloads.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Learn some history. MS got slapped with the biggest fine in EU history over bundling their own browser in windows.
There are also protectionism issues, especially after what happened to Nokia following the MS takeover. King is based in Europe, so its not like the bloc doesn't have skin in the game.
Forsythia
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That's quite something coming from Sony, who iirc was in talks with all major publishers for exclusive content at the beginning of this generation, trying to content starve Xbox. And now they're basically portbegging already.
GHG
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Concern
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This is their response? Dark times ahead if they don't get their head out their ass and at least start reviving some of their abandoned ips like Killzone.
Hitchyhero
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I'm used to seeing on GAF port begging.... I'd never expect Sony themselves to do it. How the mighty have fallen. But hey at least they have secured the next FF game.
Swift_Star
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You really believe people hate "woke" stuff? LmaoCan you imagine if COD goes full exclusive to XBOX/PC, but at the same time MS gets super radical in banning people for any kind of offensive language or bad e-sportmanship.
Casuals then drop COD/XBOX because they're banned, they feel like XBOX has gone full woke. These people then move over to PC or go back to Sony.
I would just die laughing, total hypothetical, just having fun with all the different paths this could take.
Xbox Executive Vice President Phil Spencer Calls For Cross-Platform Ban Program - Gameranx
During a New York Times podcast interview on Monday, Phil Spencer, the Executive Vice President of Xbox for Microsoft, made an open proposal to implement a cross-platform ban program for wrongdoers. In the podcast, he mentioned how he thinks a player should be blocked on all platforms if they...gameranx.com
ChuckeRearmed
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I am pretty sure they were caught off-guard. I mean the talks happened in November. Three months ago. Even less.
It was very unexpected move.
One thing to consider is that with this action - all worldwide markets will start paying attention to Microsoft and Xbox. One need to realize that MS went after 70b spending. They solidified PC market and entered mobile market with huge King developer.
70b is bigger that most of the gaming companies market caps. Asia will surely pay attention to that so Xbox might benefit from getting more games on the platform.. Even on the western game giants will pay attention It will probably have huge positive results for Xbox.
Before Sony was competiting with Xbox, now Sony has to compete with Microsoft Gaming. MS spent almost 80b on gaming within this one or two years. And who knows in what talks MS was involved too.
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Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
Just realized that any E3 style event that Xbox holds in a few years time will be massive. Can't wait.
Flintty
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Yep, it is the end game. MS don't care if you play on Xbox, PC, mobile, Playstation, Switch or even a Gamepass stick in the back of your TV. That's where we're heading, and I'm ok with that. I think they will always knock out consoles though, as long as there's demand for them.
Yup, it's a bit sad really. Moral of the story: Don't fuck around trying to starve MS of content, you will get slapped.
That just means that they want MS to abide by the COD deal that doesn't expire until 2023, where the PS version of COD has things like additional load out slots or a 2 player co-op mode that the Xbox version doesn't have.
Swift_Star
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It's not about "owning" where you play games, it's about control. They want to control and dictate the HD gaming market.
Yeah. With amount of content they would have in pipeline it's literally impossible to condense everything into 1,5 hour show
I mean they have 31 internal studios and aprox. 43 internal teams. They can realistically release exclusive game every other month and still have almost 4-year dev cycle for every game. That's literally insane.
Sosokrates
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Its quite smart annoucing these big aquisitions over a year in advanced. It gives gamers time to prepare the appropriate platfform. So when acti-blizz and zenimax games dont come to PS5, gamers are prepared.
Not their choice, they have to announce it publicly
IAmAnAgnostic
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ChuckeRearmed
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This claim is basically to calm down the stakeholders. Investor calls next week are gonna be interesting.
Herbspiceguy
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Blizzard obviously needed a shake up. They've been in a creative slump & hindered by odd direction choices for years. This purchase could potentially be the best thing that happens to Blizzard (in their current state) in terms of restoring the company, maybe even returning it to it's former glory. It could give the company a much needed morale boost, especially after all the shit of last year.
Now I keep wondering if Tencent -> Riot/Epic Games is considered the big (future) threat in the gaming market share, much more so than Sony. Maybe MS realizes they need more in their portfolio to compete with Tencent, and was a big factor in this purchase. If you look at Riot, they've been playing all their cards right, branching out successfully into different territory with their established IP as well as a new one. If there are IP's that can compete it's Blizzards main franchises. If managed right this could translate a bright future for Blizzards games (while I can also see an increase in small/mobile games), which is what I'm hoping for. Definitely not a purchase I, and likely anyone, saw coming, or would have considered, but it makes a lot of sense, especially after seeing the industry giants revenues (see post #3.225).
Now I keep wondering if Tencent -> Riot/Epic Games is considered the big (future) threat in the gaming market share, much more so than Sony. Maybe MS realizes they need more in their portfolio to compete with Tencent, and was a big factor in this purchase. If you look at Riot, they've been playing all their cards right, branching out successfully into different territory with their established IP as well as a new one. If there are IP's that can compete it's Blizzards main franchises. If managed right this could translate a bright future for Blizzards games (while I can also see an increase in small/mobile games), which is what I'm hoping for. Definitely not a purchase I, and likely anyone, saw coming, or would have considered, but it makes a lot of sense, especially after seeing the industry giants revenues (see post #3.225).
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sainraja
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Yeah, I don't think you read the article. The only comment that was his was: "Good article" — the last bit, was a quote from the article itself. It was the concluding line by the the author of the quoted article. He likely pulled that out for emphasis but you should read the article to understand the full context.
Here, I'll help (since you've shown that you are only capable of doing the bare minimum):
Link to same article:
Monopoly money: is Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard good for gaming?
The company’s bottomless appetite for new acquisitions is creating a megalith where the art of the deal is threatening the art – and heart – of the game
www.theguardian.com
Ah, so now you've resorted to accusing others of being 'warrior' simply because they don't see things the way you do lol. That's just sad. If my example taking the point of the article into account is lost on you well, then, I don't think there is anything else that needs to be said.Good thing that there's lots of competitors in the FPS genre, eh?
If you have your choice of hardware to play the games you like, how then does MS have a Vice grip on the devices you play on like the other fellow said?
You warriors crack me up
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And we had 1000s of entertaining threads ! Thanks MS!
I'm sure you'll still have people and clickbait YouTubers pretending the games will eventually come to PS5 even after they release exclusively on the Xbox/PC.
SteelCurtain 59
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Throwback to when Xbox had literally 5 studios, 1 of which working on multiplatform Minecraft. In 3 and a half years Microsoft has multiplied it's studio count by more than 6 times, not even including studios with multiple teams. Assuming it takes an average of 4 years for each studio to pump out a game (a pretty conservative estimate), that would mean, on average, 7-8 games a year by Microsoft's first party. And that number would be higher when you start counting the studios with multiple teams. I don't know if people were ready for the amount of games we'd be getting even before Bethesda, but now it's about to be an explosion of Xbox first party games
Cyberpunkd
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Yes, this was 20 years ago and related to PC/browser thing. This is videogame deal we are talking about, nobody gives a damn.
SportsFan581
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Those are numbers based only on the physical sales of Vanguard, plus CoD is popular on PC as well and those sales will also hold.
Lognor
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Desperate Sony is good Sony?
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Wrong. There are 68.7 Billion reasons to give a damn!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Halo is Back
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KFC gaming is next
roosnam1980
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Yeah. If you told me 5 years ago, that Microsoft will literally have industry leading first-party organisation i would laugh my ass of. If you told me, that they will have more then double of Sony's internal teams, I would thought you are insane.
It's funny, because Spencer said in 2017 or 2018 (I don't remember exact date) that his goals for Xbox first-party is to be industry leading. And everybody just made fun of him for that statement especially here on GAF.
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StreetsofBeige
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Got to paint aa picture for PS gamers there's still Activision games coming. So dont bail too fast.
This is the first time I've ever seen a game maker acquired and a platform holder publicly stating to everyone the other guy should honour contracts.
Desperate as hell for some positive PR spin.
Clutching at straws trying to draw a parallel. Let me highlight a word for you in penellos twitter post:
Naughty dogs biggest game before being bought: Crash bandicoot, owned and grown by Sony, not bought.
Insomniacs biggest game before being bought by Sony: Spider Man. Owned and grown by Sony, not bought.
Media Molecules biggest game before being bought by Sony: LBP. Again owned and grown by them not bought.
Should I go on?
If you read his tweet it's referring to games not home grown studios. The guy simply has no idea what he's talking about and you've misunderstood it.
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Kagey K
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If E3 does come back MS can book out all the slots for Mondays conferences and have an entire day dedicated to them.
That's fucking impressive.
Banjo64
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Banned until March 1st. He might have recovered from the shock by the time he returns. Maybe.
Sosokrates
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
wait when did that happen, he was quoting me yesterday !!
Sosokrates
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Based on what? Is sunset overdrive still in the store and on gamepass? It is?
So what are you basing these dumb takes on?
Also
Buy Call of Duty®: Vanguard - Cross-Gen Bundle Upgrade | Xbox
For digital owners of the Call of Duty®: Vanguard Standard Edition, this upgrade will unlock the Call of Duty®: Vanguard Cross-Gen Bundle, giving access to the Xbox Series X|S version of the game.
www.xbox.com
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Damn someone should let Stan Lee and marvel know Sony is responsible for Spiderman and not bought.
StreetsofBeige
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Give him credit. That's a good quality desk. Didn't see any cracks or chips.
Stan Lee developed a game? What a man of many talents. what part of 'Home grown games' don't you get. Should I change it to Ratchet for your sensibilities?
They didn't buy insomniac studios "to bring IP internal" did they
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roosnam1980
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needs to be a GIF
ReBurn
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I'm going to miss rhe triggered reactions
ZywyPL
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True, however with MS' focus on pushing GP, would the yearly sales still matter that much? As long as the people are subbet to the service, it doesn't matter much if new CoD arrives every year or two, or three.