That's what I meant.
Something HUGE happened today. Let people speculate. This is getting really interesting now. And many things will change. A huge shift in this industry.
Yeah... You just need to look the PS3 Gen after the PS2. Things could change really fast.
This I do agree with.
Yeah....and as always its not what you say but how you say it. 🙂
Well first of all, by "disgusting", I wasn't claiming the transaction is not moral. It just makes me sick that it's happening and it's going to continue to lead to bad things for the industry that I am passionate about. Second of all, if you think Sony's "buying of studios all the time" is anything close to the same situation as MS buying Activision Blizzard, then there is really no point discussing this with you anyway.
I disagree. It would be a selling point for the console.
As MS has been repeatedly trying to demonstrate, the future of games isn't selling consoles. It's providing service. Gamepass doesn't have the same problem that the always-online pitch had back when the Xbox One was announced.
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Sony can't outbid MS. There are maybe three or four companies in the world that can (Apple, Google, Facebook, maybe Samsung), and Sony isn't one of them.
Honestly, I'd love to see them try their hand at new RPGs and shooters. Killzone was fine but never great. Resistance was awesome, if they bring any back, I'd love that, but the truth is, PlayStation Studios encompasses quite a few of the most talented studios in the industry. We got exciting new IPs like Horizon and Ghost of Tsushima last gen, I'd love to see what new original stuff they can come up with.
Bro... didn't you get the memo. Can't believe they left you out.
But they would get GOG.com too. A PC platform too. To rival MS, Steam and Epic Games Store. Lol.
No Call of Duty and all the other Activision Blizzard IPs? It hurts PlayStation a lot. Sony because of the money/revenue. And PlayStation gamers because they can't play these games anymore.
Just to be honest here without trolling.
Yeah. There's no way Sony could even match a $70b offer. Let alone outdo it.
I understand being disappointed or upset. That's fine.
Of course Sony could do it. Smaller companies have made similar acquisitions in the past. Bayer/Monsanto etc
I really wish Sony would take a stab at the WRPG genre. It is one genre that they are severely lacking in. HZD is probably the closest they got.
Well yeah.
www.bloomberg.com
As long as people are nice to each other it's fine. Everybody has an opinion. Let's hear it.
Apparently Microsoft paid over 50% of the price of the stock and that still was way cheaper than if they had bought it before the scandal happenedMicrosoft Buys Scandal-Tainted Activision in Bet on Metaverse
Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion, acquiring a legendary game publisher responsible for franchises like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but recently roiled by claims of sexual misconduct and discrimination.
Sad that when you think of it: If Kotick & co ran a normal "workplace" the price would probably be to steep for Microsoft (and there wouldnt be much reason to sell).
Whether we want to admit it or not, COD is a juggernaut on PS and it will absolutely cut into their bottom line. Maybe not now, but if/when it's exclusive to MSFT(Xbox/Windows) it's going to leave a crater.
The more massive publishers MS buys, the more intense the pressure will become to grow GP to a point in which it can sustain not only the tens of billions it costs to acquire such a publisher but also the fact that all these games will be available for free* on GP, all while they're in promo mode and still loss-leading. It's like a double-edged sword in that the more they spend, the more they actually lose - and I don't think "look at all this debt Netflix has" would be the right explanation to their shareholders. Especially if something like CoD remains on PlayStation in the short term because the deal hasn't closed yet. Sony has time to react, but probably won't in the way people on here expect them to. They'll do their own thing.
Microsoft Buys Scandal-Tainted Activision in Bet on Metaverse
Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion, acquiring a legendary game publisher responsible for franchises like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but recently roiled by claims of sexual misconduct and discrimination.
Sad that when you think of it: If Kotick & co ran a normal "workplace" the price would probably be to steep for Microsoft (and there wouldnt be much reason to sell).
Cool Cool Cool, consolidation of the industry and wasting development houses for the "metaverse."
