If Apple embraced open standards like Vulkan instead of going all in on their proprietary API those same games would probably run under macOS on Intel chips as well.
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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
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Remember when we all thought their acquisition of Bethesda was huge? This is over nine times that amount of money. Absolutely insane.
This is going to take some time to fully process. Lots of implications here, both obvious and subtle.
This is going to take some time to fully process. Lots of implications here, both obvious and subtle.
This is really the biggest acquisition I can think of, it was often said in jest here as the implication was so far fetched
If I'm Sony, I'm talking to Tencent and Epic Games about partnerships and investment not Nintendo, Nintendo will continue to do their thing and very happily be Number One in Japan and do extremely well everywhere else on their own terms
What is Sony's worth? I see people saying now they are going to buy someone big? Is that even possible?
They will be released on GP just like every other 1P eexclusive.
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This is my main concern too… their main innovations/contributions are around distribution (Game Pass and backwards compatibility).
I just don't see them taking many risks as far as pushing the medium forward in new ways (maybe the default hard drive + Ethernet in the OG Xbox? But then again, they stripped it out of the 360). They always take kind of a wait and see approach and then buy in or just copy what everyone else found successful. It's made it kind of difficult to get excited about them as a gaming company. This is how I feel about my Series X… it's a good value, but kind of safe/boring. Not 100% what excites me about console gaming. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just catching up on this news now, wtf!?
I guess that's one way to get the CoD marketing rights back.
I guess that's one way to get the CoD marketing rights back.
Much smaller acquisitions than this have been blocked historically from my recollection. It makes sense it would be looked at and possibly argued against.
I can't believe this place sometimes holy moly, imagine defending that POS after everything he's done
Feel like if they were going to we would have seen them grab a major publisher by now, but my guess is they keep grabbing smaller studios or those they already are working with.
Sony is going to lose their number one selling game soon and honestly I can't see a move that Sony can make to offset this.
You think they're going to price Game Pass at a rate that exceeds TV subscriptions?
Jak & Daxter + Ratchet & Clank will have to team up in a multiverse game to take on Crash's legacy...
SONY are going to remake this MASTERPIECE to take on those. Don't you worry.
Man, they need to free Free Radical.
I watch his streams, admittedly I don't know about anything negative regarding him. I'm ignorant on that part.
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Not sure what that has to do with anything. M&A = inorganic growth. That's the definition. My point is they are both doing inorganic growth, one just happens to be doing it at a much larger scale. You may not like the definition but it is what it is.
Reads like a YouTube thumbnail from those alt right channels
It should be clear by now that Microsoft and Sony are in different business.
Nintendo is/was a dwarf compared to Sony when they arrived on the scene and threw money around to secure a dominant position too.
Difference is, Sony ensured an actual dominant position, like insurmountable. Xbox is not even dominant now, let alone a more or less monopolist like Sony became during the PS2.
Until it wasn't.
This is the entertainment industry, rules work differently.
Not only this console, but all of them, except Microsoft's if this trend is to continue, which appears it will.
Even if Sony would try to buy EA, couldn't MS simply outbid them?
"This place" is the internet. Literally anyone who feels like it can make an account and write whatever they want. Just like every other website.
As evidence of time being a circle, one of the reasons people thought gamepass might not be legal was because it was anti competitive in some way...
So here we are again :)
What's left of that company is owned THQ Nordic which is owned by Koch Media which is owned by Embracer.
Yes, of course they are.
Facebook doesn't just sell your data. Facebook uses your data -- provably -- to make genocide more efficient. There's a big gulf in selling your data and using your data, provably, to enable mass murder.
Facebook also leaks your data. Facebook also provides your data to corporations that are using your data to more efficiently elect would-be authoritarian leaders, and then Facebook denies that they're doing that, and then it's PROVEN that they did that, and then Facebook
I've explained my rationale for sharing data with some companies and not others, and it shouldn't be to suggest that "the ones I share my data with are benevolent, while the ones I don't are malicious," But rather, that I get value from sharing my data with some companies, and I get negative value from sharing it with others, so I do everything I can to * not* share data with those companies.
For a company like Netflix, Sony, Microsoft, I get some amount of value from using those services. I like playing videogames on Microsoft and Sony consoles, I like watching shows on Netflix, so I consider it *okay* to share my data with them because I see the value on the other end.
For a company like Facebook, they add *negative value* to my life. Meaning, Facebook's core products -- Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and the other smaller products that don't get much attention -- make my life worse. Facebook gives me anxiety and makes me feel bad about myself, Instagram's reward mechanisms reward you to be someone you're not. I've never used WhatsApp so I don';t have strong opinions about it, I suspect it's fine, I like Signal which is pretty similar so I don't really have personal beef with WhatsApp like I do Facebook's other products. So, because I get *negative value* from Facebook's products, then I don't want them to get positive value from my data where I can control it (there's some things I just can't really control, or it's really hard to, like my wife uses Facebook and Instagram as do a lot of my friends, and so I knwo that Facebook gets value from my data through people who are close to me, but that's not something I can really control as easily short of ... turning off bluetooth, location services, divorcing my wife, stop using ResetEra, etc).
I never implied or suggested that "Microsoft has taken the high ground," or something, but Microsoft is a far better run company today and over the last decade than Facebook, which is arguably the most or among the most malicious companies on earth. And FWIW, Facebook's acquistions of Instagram and WhatsApp should be grounds for anti-trust if we continued to invest in regulatory industries as the same rate as we did 25 years ago when Microsoft was investigated and charges with anti-trust.
So, for me, if Facebook acquired Act-Bliz, I'd be more bummed but that's because I consider Facebook the most malicious, or among the msot malicious, companies on earth. And also that the root of that malice is by design, it's from Mark Zuckerberg, who can't be fired. Zuck might step down if he chooses to in ~5 years, maybe he'll transition to some post-Meta/FB life, but nobody can make him step down at Facebook. Facebook could go all in on right wing, genocide enabling, they could go more mask off on it, they can hire more Trump advisors and put them in the room with Zuckerberg than they have, and there's nothing the board or shareholders can do about it because Zuckerberg has more control of Facebook than almost any other major tech CEO has of their company.
Probably don't want to give Tencent any ideas, lol, they could just buy Sony.
Epic Games is one thing but they don't really have a catalog of IP that would bolster a streaming service.
Honestly Disney or Amazon are more likely to acquire Sony as a whole than I think So y is to acquire something like EA or Take Two.
Around 120 billion, but the games division is only like a quarter of that.
Yes, that's the only way this move makes sense, it can't be only about Gamepass. $70 billion is a huge sum even for MS. They want to push Sony out of the console hardware market.
I could see them not releasing games on Steam to not increase Valve's value in case they ever have the opportunity to acquire them.
Who needs innovation and competition though man?
Just buy GamePass it'll be fine /s
Obviously this is big news and all, and it'll be a while before we see how that all locks into place and trickles down into games, but on a smaller (and slightly selfish) level this has me thinking:
- Hearthstone to Xbox anyone?
It already runs supremely well on mobile, and is simple enough to in theory be controlled with just a D-Pad and face buttons.
He's a horrible piece of shit. One of the last PS I Love You's he did before getting the boot from Kinda Funny for being too toxic, he was talking about how white people shouldn't be allies or help defend the rights of Black people or Brown people, in response to public criticism over the Native American cultural appropriation in Horizon Zero Dawn. I'm pretty sure it's still up on Youtube if you want to go find it.
He's a "both sides" right wing libertarian and there's a reason you don't see him discussed on this site.
VR Pron exclusive to Playstation. Good lord what a flex
Hopefully under Microsoft's governance, AB's corporate culture would be better, and they can release a more diverse lineup instead of just cod
If they continue to buy large companies like Activision, yes! Think about it. If they scoop up EA and Ubi they'll have total control over the vast majority of relevant third party video game franchises and new endeavors.
This is insane news, but hopefully it's a power play that forces Sony to resurrect Zipper/SOCOM after losing COD. Lol
... okay.. we're not talking about the same things.
Game Pass fits into exactly what I described. It exists on open ecosystems or Xbox specifically. Simple as that.
XCloud is your solution if don't have devices with access to Gamepass. Everything else is supportive of the Xbox Ecosystem, so they keep bringing Gamepass or retail games to them
Dunk on Sony? Temporary boost in Gamepass value?
When MS started their new approach with gamepass it became very clear to a lot of people that the production pipeline they would need would have to be massive. This isn't an acquisition to dunk on Sony, they need the people and corporate structure combined with the IPs to have a big enough content pipeline for the service. This isn't a temporary boost to value, it's still laying the pipeline for all the content that will appear on the service in the future.
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