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[ParaSeoul]

Bring back Prototype,Phil.

 

[GriffinCorp]

Holy Cow XBOX is KILLING IT!

 

[Rubik8]

I will continue enjoying not playing any Activision/Blizzard games.

 

[Inviusx]

GT7 is literally the only thing keeping me on Sony's side at this point.

 

[ManaByte]

How will Sony react I wonder?

State of Play with a bunch of indies

 

[Auto_aim1]

Sony should takeover some Japanese companies like Capcom and Square Enix but whatever.

 

[purpletentacle]

will be curious to see if this passes regulators here and in the EU.

 

[Papacheeks]

Nobody except fanboys should be happy about this.
Who needs a good product or compelling service when you can just spend hundreds of billions of dollars to essentially buy the market.

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]

Im scared guys.

 

[Soren01]

ICONIC

 

[Nickolaidas]

Wow Microsoft is filthy rich and ruthless.
How will Sony react I wonder?

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]

Any GP subscriber now is getting all their games for free basically.

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.

 

[Xyphie]

If the deal goes through MS will own Battle.net, so I'm guessing they'll use that as their exclusive PC launcher going forward in lieu of Steam (and probably consolidate it into Windows App Store as their gaming branch).

 

[Davevil]

Stock up on your Gamepass now. Shit is about to get expensive.

 

[tmlDan]

i wonder what will happen to the battle.net client on PC now.

maybe they'll shut it down and release WoW, Diablo, Call of Duty, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the storm, Starcraft on the MS Store and maybe Steam too.

Aren't they trying to revamp the MS store, at this rate MS can say fuck steam and make their own platform lol

 

[reksveks]

That is still anticompetitive.

For the FTC and more importantly the courts to decide

 

[ManaByte]

will be curious to see if this passes regulators here and in the EU.

People said the same thing about Bethesda and Disney/Fox.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Makes me think that Sony should have bought Konami and Square Enix ages ago.

Before the age of pachinko for Konami?

 

[Alter_Fridge]

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)

 

[cyberheater]

Biggest bombshell I've seen in years. Just wow.

 

[Jaybe]

Tencent, urgh... is that the one with Pokemon Unite? Still can't get over the fact GF actually partnered with Tencent...

Tencent is basically an arm of the Chinese government.

 

[Mr.ODST]

So on Gamepass you can get...

Ubisoft Titles (Most likely soon)
EA Vault
Bethesda Titles
Microsoft Studio Titles
And tons of other GP deals with indies and more.

Gamepass is going to be stacked.

 

[RoadHazard]

I don't understand why Microsoft would restrict COD and other games to be Xbox only. They can easily have it on both platforms and rake in the money.

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.

 

[DaGwaphics]

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]

Wow Microsoft is filthy rich and ruthless.
How will Sony react I wonder?

By releasing actual good games.

 

[balls of snow]

So like..sony is the new nintendo now right.

 

[Lognor]

Didn't Ms for the past couple of years have marketing rights for BF?

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

 

[winjer]

Bobby Kotick is probably going to get a huge bonus with this deal.

 

[Juza]

$70 billion or just $7 billion ?

 

[Nautilus]

Damn - does this mean we might actually start seeing regular Starcraft and Diablo games again? Because I'd be down for that. That's the extent of my caring about Activision Blizzard, really, aside from the odd Call of Duty campaign.

Microsoft really do mean business in the new gen, don't they. It's kind of crazy to see.

Oh yes, OH YES.

The only silver lining in this is that Starcraft might come back.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

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.).

 

[nosseman]

Man Xbox is trying hard to win this console war arent they

Buying Bethesda and Activision

Now playstation and nintendo gamers wont get those two anymore

Holy shit

Console wars are old and over.

The streaming war is the current war and MS got a lot of content to stream.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Big deal like Zemimax.

 

[nightmare-slain]

Is it feasible that MS could buy Sony Computer Entertainment?

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.

 

[Coolwhhip]

"MS doesn't believe in exclusives."

 

[Jebron]

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]

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.

 

[kruis]

i reckon Take Two would cost about $30-40b. not sure sony has that kind of money to splash out.

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]

I hope the government doesn't approve the merger.

 

[Thirty7ven]

This is the company some people stan for? Wake up sheep.

 

[Bartski]

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.

 

[Maestr0]

Is Kotick out ?

 

[ManaByte]

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.

Gaben is old MS. Eventually they all return home.

 

[oldergamer]

Are they even worth 70 billion? this price seems odd to me. Also a pretty odd buy out target.

 

[treemk]

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.

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]

Its over for sony. 3rd party is their bread and better. To lose that is to lose their identity. Millions of PS gamers will switch over to xbox because of this. They will still do well but this is the start of their decline. I just don't see how they can compete if Microsoft are throwing 70b around and who says it's over? Clearly Microsoft can buy out the industry.

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

 

[kadab]

 

[GigaBowser]

Man Xbox is trying hard to win this console war arent they

Buying Bethesda and Activision

Now playstation and nintendo gamers wont get those two anymore

Holy shit

Nintendo never got those games anyway other than a few old ports.

Sony on the other had will be impacted pretty badly by this.

 

[Omegaking]

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.

 

[The Fartist]