Hard to imagine gabe selling the farm like that. It's a cash cow that prints money. But with it getting increasingly more popular than even any current console it's a least not to big of a streatch.Microsoft buying Valve would be a fucking bombshell and to me the only thing I'd perceive as bigger than what went down today. If they did, then left it alone (meaning don't turn it into the Xbox app) they could cement themselves as the PC gaming platform. They already release day-one on Steam, they have expressed intent to make their own game apps more like games available on Steam (no hidden file bullshit) and more open to mods. Acquiring Steam would give them access to a huge userbase and solve their shitty PC distribution issue. Likewise if the acquisition involved basically funneling a ton of cash into Valve and then mostly stepping away Steam could improve as well. Stepping away and running things hands-off would be the key as the second they over-reach the platform will become a ghost town.
That all said I'm not a huge fan of seeing the entire industry turn into a few giants like it is. Eventually one will blot out the sun and everything else will have trouble growing unless the big guy wills it. That's never a good thing.
Hard to imagine gabe selling the farm like that. It's a cash cow that prints money. But with it getting increasingly more popular than even any current console it's a least not to big of a streatch.
I mentioned it in another thread but ms buying epic would also be huge. They don't have the ip like a bethsda with the huge exception of fortnite of course but getting the engine that powers most games made today? That'd be pretty fucking big.
Also Sony is like... 300 bill from what I am googlingThe Japanese government wouldn’t allow it.
In 2020 it was just over 8bn so they’re on an upward trajectoryWell, lets be real here. Spending nearly $70b is a huuuuuge move.
And arguably an unnecessary one because certainly based on what's already known did MS really need to do this to shore up their position? I mean there's no way in hell that they'd resort to this sort of expenditure to get over on Sony. Its total overkill.
So. The question becomes, what would spook MS so badly that they'd resort to buying ABK? And bear in mind the conditions of the deal is an all-cash buyout. This isn't for stock, which is pretty unusual. Bear in mind that ABK's net revenue at peak has been around $6.6b per year, so they're looking at 10 years before they even recoup the purchase price, and a decade is a long time in gaming (consider where WoW was then compared to now).
Sounds like it’s big news in general. Maybe Nintendo is about to unveil a new console? Switch launched 5 years ago.Dont see how anything can be bigger than a $70 billion acquisition of the best selling game of the last 13 years.
Gamepass coming to Playstation?
Microsoft buys Nintendo ?
Microsoft buys Valve?
GamePass on Steam?
Gamepass on Nintendo?
Microsoft buys Take two?
Microsoft Buys EA?
Cant think of anything bigger except those above
Think that's more up in Facebook and Google territory.Maybe Phil is a reptilian.
Hard to imagine gabe selling the farm like that.
One time GAFer. Spent time here cussing out George Lucas and shitting on Lucasfilm. Then one day he came back and edited all of his posts to delete that stuff. Turns out it was because he got hired by Lucasfilm to write the first draft of Rogue One:Who?
EDIT: Nevermind, it was a joke tweet
Gary was trolling
edit: as you can see in the wikipedia page of forspoken he is one of the writers on the game. For people who keep on asking who he is.
Forspoken - Wikipedia
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His wiki page:
Gary Whitta - Wikipedia
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Anyway he could be trolling
He was trolling
Gary was trolling
If half of what each CoD sells in all platforms is on PS (so PS is best selling platform), it means around 10% of PS4 owners buy it. Which means around 90% don't.When you consider some of the most played games in existence is COD and Warzone, the argument becomes muddled. Lets not pretend that Activision games are a big system seller for PlayStation in Europe and RoW where Microsoft isn't as strong.
If they buy them, who knows. But as of now with ABK they won't be a monopoly because they won't even be market leaders. Not in the gaming industry. Not in consoles. Not in mobile. Not in PC. Not in game subscriptions. Not in VR.And my point was, if Microsoft then go and buy EA or TakeTwo or whatever, then it will be a monopoly.
Yes, all big acquisitions are overviewed by antitrust. But they will pass it, because they are far having a monopoly.And even now its this Activision Deal should be brought to antitrust. A $70 Billion dollar acquisition is no fucking joke.
In this case, it would be a Monopoly. Steam already has (or almost) a monopoly, as I remember they were estimated to have 80-90% of the PC market. Xbox store + Battle.net + Steam specially if merged would be a monopoly, at least for the west (Asia has their own stores).Microsoft buying Valve would make the PC market a monopoly.
I think the most wanted acquisition at MS now is Valve. To get their VR, portable PC and specially their PC store to get monopoly (or almost) on PC.Microsoft, as evidenced by this acquisition will have the appetite to essentially murder the existence of competing stores like the EGS and whathaveyou by outbidding for store exclusives. Unlike Valve they won't be quite so passive.
Then we're fucked.
MS gaming division will continue having less revenue than the Sony one after the acquisition, but now will be close. It's MS who needed to spend $70B to compete with them, not Sony.Sony doesn't have the money to do anything about this. They can spin up a bunch of studios and build up new franchises and game series, but that will take time. Microsoft has basically bought an entire audience with their purchase, and there is nobody else in this industry that can compete with that.
IIRC he has been previously banned from here.What? Can we ban this troll from here and never mention any of his tweets?
Let then unban him and then ban againIIRC he has been previously banned from here.
That would require a lot of games to run at specs they weren't designed for. Not remotely realistic. Streaming I suppose but Nintendo has already laughed in ms's face when they tried to buy them years ago.Nintendo should allow Gamepass on Switch.
It's not like they get third party support anyway.
The Switch follow up would be very realistic.That would require a lot of games to run at specs they weren't designed for. Not remotely realistic.
I'm hoping for native gamepass support on the steam deck myself.The Switch follow up would be very realistic.
Close it all you want, the seed has already been planted. I look forward to this Bigger News. #Teamreal.Time to close this garbage thread
What a horrible day that would be.Disney buys Sony
He was trolling, mods need to edit thread
It was mostly a joke, and the idea is they don't care about Sony as much as they just want to get $piderman back.What a horrible day that would be.
r.i.p expecting anything to have a good sale.
Always amazes me how twitter trolls and fake insiders always get an audience here on GAF and the threads staying open despite the tweet being obvious BS.Time to close this garbage thread
You gotta be brain dead to think im mad about thisLmao why? It was clearly a joke as everyone with a brain said from the very beginning. Don't get mad that you can't understand a simple joke, even after it's been explained.
perfect
We don't have to take everything in life literally. Sometimes it is healthy to engage in light hearted discussion in such threads.Always amazes me how twitter trolls and fake insiders always get an audience here on GAF and the threads staying open despite the tweet being obvious BS.