and with what excuses they should block Microsoft ..and above all with what political excuse would they take the defense of Sony or even worse tencent? What are you talking about. Even after the acquisition of Activision and a hypothetical Square enix by Ms, Sony would remain the leader.
You may do but the general public doesn't. I'm not dissing Japanese games at all because they certainly have their place in the industry and I do love some Japanese games.
Regulator at this age are cowards. This isn't 1990s regulators.
Cracking down on big tech as in Nvidia and Arm for obvious reasons. Doubt they gave 2 fucks that CoD will be MS now.
www.playstationlifestyle.net
I try to follow your reasoning but it is completely far-fetched for very different reasons. 1) We are talking about an American company that would take some marketshare away from a Chinese one, and leave in first place (for revenue) ,but with much less predominance, a Japanese company then followed by another Japanese company (ninty). 2) Any regulator must explain the reasons for a hypothetical block and these must be explained in front of a judge so they can't be far-fetched antics and at the moment apart from the fact of "Microsoft is a rich company" there is no other obvious motivation.3) The politicians you speak of would not gain any advantage, and I assure you that if they ever took a stand against the takeover they would only do so if they took political advantage, but this is not an American company vs another American company (and there we would have to understand who and which lobbies would intervene behind the scenes) but of Asian companies and one as I said before even Chinese and we know very well how American governments try to put a spoke in the wheel of the Chinese market.
They aren't really buying anything tech related here though. If they were buying out like AMD there's no way they'd be able to. This is on the same level as Disney's acquisitions to me.
You mean the best CEO playstation had?
Sony Is Still a Bigger Gaming Company Than Microsoft Despite Their Acquisition of Activision - PlayStation LifeStyle
Sony is still a bigger gaming company than Microsoft according to gaming revenue despite the latter's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Then again with ludicrous articles like this no wonder people get confused, this article is suggesting Microsoft have just bough Activision, and paid more than their company is worth.
Microsoft's current market cap stands at 2.29 Trillion.
Their revenue alone is not what regulators would be looking at.
Yeah , this is in fact exactly what I'm saying ....if not even Sony would be judged as monopoly ..imagine Ms
Not my point though, but perhaps they have paid a little too much.
Not to mention last quarter Microsoft nearly made back all the money the spent on the acquisition. Also, the moment Microsoft does officially gain Activision/Blizzard, their value almost automatically goes up that amount. This is nothing in the grand scheme of Microsoft operating costs.Sony Is Still a Bigger Gaming Company Than Microsoft Despite Their Acquisition of Activision - PlayStation LifeStyle
Sony is still a bigger gaming company than Microsoft according to gaming revenue despite the latter's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Then again with ludicrous articles like this no wonder people get confused, this article is suggesting Microsoft have just bough Activision, and paid more than their company is worth.
Microsoft's current market cap stands at 2.29 Trillion.
Current worth, doesn't translate to sellable price.
This the difference between passive income, and active income.
Are they?
Microsoft always played safe with regulators after IE lawsuit and avoid regulations and lawsuit problems more than Meta Inc and Google, if they can't buy ABK, then no one can regardless of being big tech or not, Bobby was also considering Meta as a buyer. It's an american company buying another american company in a entertaiment sector, its not considered an strategical - essential sector like regulators did intervine before on cases like Qualcomm, Honeywell and now ARM.
Exactly. The Activision deal won't get as much scrutiny as other tech deals would. Take the ARM deal that Nvidia is probably going to abandon. Who controls microprocessor design and its impact on the chip industry is a big deal to government regulators because it impacts so many industries. One company becoming so powerful in regard to the technology that makes pretty much everything in the world work is a valid concern.
This was a much better play than buying a huge publisher for 20-30 times the cost (for Sony, which does not have the same war chest). A FPS in case COD goes exclusive was, without any doubt, the most pressing need for 2024 onward. Now they have Destiny protected from becoming exclusive, plus whatever Bungie had in the hopper, plus Bungie's technology as it relates to the skeleton of a FPS.
in fact I'm not wrong in any wayI was expecting you to be proven wrong this year but in 24 hours....
They have to actively sell the product. Compared to MS, which don't need to sell anything.
It's amazing how people do not get it, Microsoft as you say have guaranteed income streams, their Video game business is a pretty small operation within the wider corporation, them spending 79 billion is not sinking in with people, when you consider Sony is worth 22 billion, it's a drop in the ocean for Microsoft, while for Sony it would be over three times their corporation's value.
Sony market cap is $140b. MS spent half of entire Sony worth in cash. And got 1/3rd of that money back this earnings call last 2 week.
Actually I'm not sure. Who is publishing it? And did they outsource the development? Sony developed the game for PS and Xbox so I wouldn't be surprised if they were developing for Switch too. Do you know?
i would assume is easier to port games to Xbox than switch but I'm just guessing. so far nothing, the game isn't on the switch. maybe in the future who knows
first time hearing that, they skipped last year
I just saw the dual sense update and I noticed they sell that controller at the Apple Store too.
Oh for Switch, yeah. This is the first year for Switch and I assume its the same deal as the xbox release.
Yep and if you notice Nintendo and Sony didn’t enter the lawsuit against Apple so I am pretty sure more is to come
