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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
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nintendo is barely affected by this. the major actiblizzard franchises that hit switch were late, but generally did well: crash, tony hawk, spyro, and diablo. take those away and the switch is obviously weaker, but compared to playstation it's a bigger loss. call of duty, if it is no longer on playstation, is huge. that is usually the top selling game of the year on the system and warzone is a live service that generates sony a lot of extra revenue (though probably not to the level of fortnite). additionally, sony spent a good chunk of their own marketing dollars promoting cod at events from 2014-2019. that's something nintendo did too, but mostly in the nintendo direct space.
basically, sony made far bigger investments into activision's biggest franchise and it's potentially something they can no longer rely on. the next step for them is to shore up support with electronic arts for apex legends and epic games for fortnite. nintendo losing activision franchises sucks, but not to the same degree, although they don't have other third-party games that are similar that they can lean on except maybe sonic.
Honestly, blizzard store is much better than that shitty Xbox app they use for gamepass. I'm hoping they'll incorporate gamepass there.
If you mean other console makers, Nintendo will keep doing what they do because this doesn't impact them at all. Sony will presumably either buy up some more studios also or open some new ones.
If you mean publishers? They're probably all polishing every part of their offices so they look real nice when MS come to have a look.
I'm hoping that MS will do something with a lot of the properties that Activision has mismanaged or let die. I also think this is the end of perpetual yearly CoDs.
If the goal is to move those people over to your platform or subscription service, then yes, it is. You would have to pay developments costs to make a PS5 version of the game in addition to the Xbox and PC version. That means more out of pocket costs.
Microsoft wants you to play games on either a Xbox or Gamepass, they don't want you to play games on a Playstation.
First reaction: "Wait? What? What the fucksauce?"
Second reaction: "Here's hoping MS might dust off some of those beloved IPs Acti has in the vault."
Second reaction: "Here's hoping MS might dust off some of those beloved IPs Acti has in the vault."
Okay MS, you now own two PC storefronts that are better than the Windows store. So can we stop selling games on the Windows Store? Convert Bethesda's launcher into the Xbox Games Store and Game Pass launcher and call it a day.
I wonder Sony being quick and first one to come out demand change with the whole Bobby Kotick stories coming out had anything to do with this. Usually deal like this is negotiated over a long period of time and Sony must've known that and they came out first criticizing Activision. Or maybe it was genuine.
The amount of revenue generated by that game alone would require an uplift in Game pass subscribers that will take MS a couple of years to build.
In the medium term there's no financial benefit to removing COD from PlayStation as you won't have the new subs you need to cover the loss in revenue from the lost PlayStation sales and you've lowered the cultural relevance of the worlds biggest shooter franchise because much less people can access it.
COD's going to be on PlayStation until about 2025 for me.
Game Pass subscribers just a metric fuckton of new content. I see reason for them to be happy.
PlayStation owners, not so much.
People getting happy because a company have money to buy all the other studios out there is crazy as if they had earned it besides having money to make the deal. And worst of all, taking advantage of a sexual harassment that lowers the price of the company you want to buy is something i don't like
And i don't play almost any Activisions-Blizzard games, only Diablo so this is not a response to console wars.
I feel that there is something wrong with this adquisition in this moment at least.
But anyway maybe MS could help Activision workers , that could be good of course.
Please don't make this into a console wars. More important things are happening with this deal than a Call of duty exclusive.
And i don't play almost any Activisions-Blizzard games, only Diablo so this is not a response to console wars.
I feel that there is something wrong with this adquisition in this moment at least.
But anyway maybe MS could help Activision workers , that could be good of course.
Please don't make this into a console wars. More important things are happening with this deal than a Call of duty exclusive.
Yea it's going to be an interesting time. I'm in the same boat myself. Even before all the scandals I didn't really buy anything from Activision because the few IP they focused on weren't that interesting to me. The one silver lining of this purchase would be the revival of smaller games and IP from Activision IMO. Though Xbox tends to be hands off with running their publishers to an extent. So who knows maybe we see the same issues continue under Microsoft's management.
I think EA is next, not soon, but in a couple of years. They have a good relationship with Microsoft.
The sports leagues arent going to let MS lockdown their exclusive rights like that
There are no threadmarks yet, have they said what's happening to Warzone? I don't play it but I can't imagine they'll leave future seasons out of the PS ecosystem, it's like a shitload of money to leave on the table.
Holy fucking shit...this is insane, NO ONE is safe XD. Are they going to buy EA next??
Holy fucking shit...this is insane, NO ONE is safe XD. Are they going to buy EA next??
That is not true this current gamepass will go up in price and in like 2/3 years a $25/30 gamepass will not seems like a bad deal if you factor in what xbox has at that point and is going to add.
$15 for all this and more will not be forever, hell even netflix is going to the $20 a month now.
Right, the sale won't close for up to another year. During that time of course Bobby will remain in the position he is. Once the sale is done he'll no longer be in charge and will it's highly likely he'll then slowly step backwards, however that looks like in terms of transitioning.
I think if MS can use CoD as leverage to get Sony to loosen their weird grip on crossplay, then it'll be a win for everybody.
On the other hand, what incentive does MS have at the moment to keep most AB IPs multi-platform?
Maybe not in 2022, but in 2023. I'd bet on that. Sony IPs are the stuff of legend, but still, Microsoft just gobbled up two of the best publishers. It's an arms race, and EA and Take Two are now possible targets.
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SONY still has Spider-Man - God of War - Uncharted - Last of Us - Ratchet & Clank - Horizon - Ghost of Tsushima - Gran Turismo. Saw a bunch of toxic Xbox lads thinking otherwise.
All the "competition is good" "there shouldn't be exclusives... everything should be everywhere" was always bullshit.
They'll leave warzone alone because it's a free-to-play title. But the others will likely become exclusive to their ecosystem. They're tent-pole blockbuster releases in the vein of Elder Scrolls, Starfield, et al. They are going to make sure the only place you can play them is one they control even if it means losing a little in the short-term. They already set that precedent.
Isn't the process of aquiring a Japanese company a nightmare for foreign companies? I remember reading about that years ago.
This absolutely sucks.
I hate industry consolidation, especially since there's no net benefit. They're keeping the same dipshit CEO so all this does it take games away from other players and lead to compensatory bad behavior on Sony's part - expect a bunch more console exclusives.
Imagine if Microsoft invested this money towards building talented new development teams. That'd be such an awesome boom to the industry to get even more great exclusive games made, but instead, we'll get the same games just less accessible
I hate industry consolidation, especially since there's no net benefit. They're keeping the same dipshit CEO so all this does it take games away from other players and lead to compensatory bad behavior on Sony's part - expect a bunch more console exclusives.
Imagine if Microsoft invested this money towards building talented new development teams. That'd be such an awesome boom to the industry to get even more great exclusive games made, but instead, we'll get the same games just less accessible
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