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Breaking: Microsoft to acquire Activision-Blizzard in near 70$ billion deal
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
All that money and all those studios and still not one dev anywhere near as good as Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Insomniac or Guerrilla Games, now I'm no fanboy and I'm all for seeing Xbox finally shrug off the terrible last gen stigma and come out fighting but seriously though would any of those recent acquisitions even be considered an equal to the above studios, the only one that i can think of would be I.D. software, they would certainly have the technical chops to go toe to toe.
tommib
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What a nightmare.
“I’m no fanboy but…” is always a massive red flag for an incoming fanboy post.
C’mon, man.
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
ZywyPL
Banned
He exposed himself even before that point...
Anchovie123
Member
I had no idea that Bamco was worth so much. I assume they have some juggernaut mobile games that i dont know about?
TrebleShot
Member
Just your daily reminder that GP is the platform not Xbox and you’ll be playing COD 2024 via game pass on your PS5 for a small premium on top of what you pay for it on PC/Xbox.
Sony will also do a streaming content service and you’ll pay for both and be happy about it.
Some will play on iPads, so many devices in the world removing the potential blocker of hardware is genius and has been accelerated by the pandemic.
Interesting times ahead!
Sony will also do a streaming content service and you’ll pay for both and be happy about it.
Some will play on iPads, so many devices in the world removing the potential blocker of hardware is genius and has been accelerated by the pandemic.
Interesting times ahead!
tommib
Member
Someone up above is dying for an open world Bethesda call of duty.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
yeah reading it back it looks like i'm a raving twat... ffs, ah well... point still stands personally for me i prefer the output of each of those studios over anything ive seen MS purchase and especially Acti/Blizz, the only one i will sorely miss and will probably see me picking up a Series X Slim will be ES6 which is fucking years away tbh
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CuteFaceJay
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Phil Spenser be like, 'Buy Everyone'
Helghan
Member
ZywyPL
Banned
Half of those 70B goes directly into Bobby's pocket.
tommib
Member
It’s a-ok. This is the time for meltdowns and rants.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
mon man... Insomniac's output is 2nd to none and the new R+C is absolutely gorgeous as for GG.. they are absolute masters when it comes to wringing every last drop out of the PS, i've been replaying ShadowFall at 60fps on the PS5.. and it still looks incredible in parts and this was a launch game for the PS4 and you cant deny Horizon looks gorgeousInsomniac and guerilla games?
TrebleShot
Member
I think there is enough talent and ability in these studios to continue making great games and MS essentially bought them to do that very thing. The problem is most of these studios have been making allot of money but not making anything note worthy.
Your COD, Fallout 76 and even Doom eternal have been rehashes of the previous iteration purely designed around a tried and tested gameplay loop with little to no experimentation or even level of quality to really invest in and capture their audiences imagination or excitement.
MS has a huge job on its hands turning well established and stale franchises into something exciting again.
I think they have made some huge mis steps in recent times with Halo Infinite and Horizon 5 being very similar to what we see with the studios they have acquired, where the focus has been on iterating on what came before.
There hasn’t been anything from MS similar to a Spider Man or God Of War in decades. They need to capture their audiences attention and imaginations to really push their portfolio forward and come from under Sony shadow. Throwing MORE at the process won’t improve things in that regard.
Spending 70bln and owning everything doesn’t suddenly turn Fallout 76 into Horizon Zero Dawn. If anything it will dissipate the ownership of those franchises from the devs and spreads the butter too thin so to speak.
Helghan
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I agree about Naughty Dog and Santa Monica, but I was never that blown away by Insomniac and Guerilla Games. They just make good games. I would still put Playground Games above both of them. But people have different tastes, as long as you are enjoying yourself, that's all that matters.
Georges Chiellins
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Thanks bro!
HerjansEagleFeeder
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The owners of Acti/Blizz. Was asking myself the same question yesterday.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
The Universe coming back in order.
Xbox controllers taking over MLG once again.
Xbox controllers taking over MLG once again.
Yoboman
Member
Your name is Helghan and you dislike Guerrilla?
ZywyPL
Banned
The Universe coming back in order.
Xbox controllers taking over MLG once again.
MLG is where I think this whole "metaverse" thing will happen, it'll be the virtual HUB for all the online competitions, not only CoDs but Halo, Gears etc. as well.
Invalid GR
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I wonder how many more 70+ billion dollar acquisitions can MS make before getting blocked by the anti trust committee...
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
BEcause the money cannot stay with acti/bliz. So the owners all have to leave
DarkMage619
$MSFT
So after thinking about this acquisition over night your conclusion is that MS will go the Sega route and drop out of the hardware market? I suppose at that point they'll put all their games on PlayStation one of the few places with no Game pass? I don't think you thought this all the way through.
People laughed at MS when they said their saw their main rivals as Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple. This deal shows the league MS is in and it certainly is different than Nintendo and Sony. Activision actually has a larger market cap than Nintendo. These are exciting times indeed.
captainraincoat
Banned
Scary to think they could of bought most of that list and still had change left over …I would of left ea and activision to be honest and picked up the rest…just the Japan studios would be a big boon in the cap
salva
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Tenchu!!!!!! pls Phil. kthxbye.
NiiloPielinen
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Remember this?
Xbox's Phil Spencer tells staff he is "evaluating all aspects" of relationship with Activision Blizzard
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has written to staff saying he is "evaluating all aspects" of Xbox's relationship with Activisio…www.eurogamer.net
That is one fucking nuclear ‘proactive adjustment‘.
Team Andromeda
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I doubt MS would by SONY, but maybe Nintendo is back on lol
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Mass Shift
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That’s an impressive list of IP.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a revival of some Sierra games either. Xbox owns all of that stuff now.
So you’re basing your entire spiel on visuals alone?
Microsoft has been putting their games on PC, and has invested billions in server capacity to enable people stream games to mobile phones, TVs and weak computers. And you’re only just waking up to say they’ll be device agnostic?
They will always make xbox console hardware. It’s a gateway to their ecosystem. But ultimately, you’re looking at a future where you’ll be able play their games on every screen you own, without having to buy an xbox. All via Gamepass.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Too late Microsoft.
Bizarre Creations is already dead!
Bizarre Creations is already dead!
I doubt FFVII Remake and the upcoming FFXVI would have flopped if not for Sony paying money to keep the games off competing platforms.
na. Xbox console is the easiest way to enter with physical hw in the Xbox platform/gamepass it will never go away or at least not as long as there are these technological limitations in streaming. think a little about surface devices and their reason for existence.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
nope, they manage to produce games that are not only visual & technical masterpieces but also y'know play really fucking wellSo you’re basing your entire spiel on visuals alone?
Silent Viper
Banned
When These studios starts firing games. Sony wont be able to keep up.
All thanks to
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Sygma
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Shame playground still haven't done better than TDU 1
BWJinxing
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oldergamer
Member
Sony wouldn't be able to afford EA. They are bigger then activision with a stock price approaching $150
There is zero chance of Sony working with nintendo on anything ever again.
Sony will need to look at purchases of independent developers. Or smaller publishers.
Obsidian for me makes better game than the ones you mentioned, i'm not talking (goes without saying) about graphics only. It seems to me you only consider a good studio as one that does pretty graphics.
Swift_Star
Banned
Still no source lmao
onesvenus
Member
When you say "platform agnostic" do you mean by means of having Gamepass everywhere or becoming a third party?
Going third party means losing the 30% of every payment done in their console, which is a lot of money
VN1X
Banned
I get the concept of this but did a fan make this image? This is the worst one yet. Crash is in there twice? Same goes for the guy from CoD Vanguard? XGS Publishing has a badly cropped pick of what I assume is Contraband from Avalanche? The images for Playground, Roundhouse and Obsidian are also all awful lol.
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
youre not the first to mention that, but c'mon man do i need to list up the scores of Spiderman, Uncharted, GOW, TLOU2, Horizon etc..
Shmunter
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What do you get from that you don’t already have?
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