My PS5 to my Series S in late 2020: Hey little guy, you're just for GP indies and Halo
My Series S to my PS5 Jan 2022:
That's perfect 😂
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
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That's perfect 😂
I feel it is all about MS vs Sony on stream market. Nothing else.
They will be threading the needle. I read that Activision stands to make $3 Billion if the deal falls apart.
It's sinking in…they just spent a 1/4th of Sony's total asset value on a company. And it was straight cash….holy fucking shit.
Sekiro is a From's IP, not Activision. They just published the game.
Regarding Kotick: It's pretty standard to keep a CEO through the closing of an acquisition, and then to dump them after. If you think about it, it makes sense. The cost of onboarding a totally new management team during a corporate transition is insanely high, even when the existing management is bad. You need to keep the team with the existing institutional knowledge in order to pilot the firm through the merger process. After that, they can be disposed of at a much lower cost.
My PS5 to my Series S in late 2020: Hey little guy, you're just for GP indies and Halo
My Series S to my PS5 Jan 2022:
Nintendo seems to be doing quite well and they don't own zillions of first party companies.
This is a deal for GP, not to kill Sony.
He said the exact same thing about Bethesda too. anything that's already out and multiplat will stay that way i.e. warzone, anything new won't be.
Minecraft stayed multiplat because it already was multiplat.
Same as COD:MW or COD:Vanguard will stay multiplat - they won't pull them from people who bought them on Playstation - that's not how this works.
Exclusivity begins with NEW games. I thought this was clear, but obviously not.
What bothers me about folks saying "MS won't make CoD exclusive, it's too much money being left on the table" is that they don't consider this:
If you make it exclusive, that's not just a copy of the game sold or rather played through GP. That's a console sold which, at $300-$500 is the equivalent of at LEAST 4 copies of the game sold. If it's the Series S then they're guaranteed a 30% cut of anything bought on it throughout its life. And if they're getting a GamePass subscription they're most likely going to stay with how much content you've invested in and pay you money EVERY MONTH, not just every couple years.
If MS ONLY wanted to make money and not be competitive (or in this case drive competition out IMO), they would continue to sit back and collect 30% of a billion dollars worth of CoD games and DLC sold every year.
If they get CoD I think you could make a case for it tbh, especially since they're going to make it exclusive.
If you make it exclusive, that's not just a copy of the game sold or rather played through GP. That's a console sold which, at $300-$500 is the equivalent of at LEAST 4 copies of the game sold. If it's the Series S then they're guaranteed a 30% cut of anything bought on it throughout its life. And if they're getting a GamePass subscription they're most likely going to stay with how much content you've invested in and pay you money EVERY MONTH, not just every couple years.
If MS ONLY wanted to make money and not be competitive (or in this case drive competition out IMO), they would continue to sit back and collect 30% of a billion dollars worth of CoD games and DLC sold every year.
If they get CoD I think you could make a case for it tbh, especially since they're going to make it exclusive.
Yup.
I do agree with Jason Schreier that Blizzard and it's employees will be better off thanks to this however.
No, that's revenue, not profits. Assuming zero growth, it'll take far longer to earn back $70b.
That said, whilst it's a decent premium to the share price, it's not outrageous. ACTI's EBITA was ~$3.2b last year, so this is a ~22x multiple. Compare that to Zenimax/Bethesda, where estimated EBITDA was ~$300m, which implies a ~25x multiple.
And neuters the upcoming Spartacus reveal, it's already DOA after this.
Amazing to see all the hype of PS5 vanish over the last year.
Yeah, but those games were already out on other platforms when the acquisition happened, it's not like Microsoft is gonna pull them from sale.
A potential "Minecraft 2" is definitely Microsoft exclusive though.
That would be nice. Certainly opens the door for that. Even if they wanted to convert the Bethesda launcher to a dedicated GamePass and xCloud launcher with Battle.net becoming the store front for all things MS that would be a huge improvement.
Dont know why I find the name so funny. Sounds like a position you will find in a gaming webcomic from the 2000's
I think the only sweating happening at all is trying to finish BoTW2
Actually I think they're the ones safest from this sort of behavior unless Sony decides that is who they're going to target.
Thats all wishfull thinking here.
& i think they should do it if they want to convert gamers.
Insane amounts of copium here, there's absolutely no way in hell Sony ever sees a new CoD game on the platform ever again. Warzone is probably the only exception.
Guess I'll never get to play OW2 though, on the flipside this could mean a new lease on life for Starcraft.
Guess I'll never get to play OW2 though, on the flipside this could mean a new lease on life for Starcraft.
😂My PS5 to my Series S in late 2020: Hey little guy, you're just for GP indies and Halo
My Series S to my PS5 Jan 2022:
Where will you draw the line here? How many other publishers would they need? How many more studios than the competition do they need?
What about Warzone? I'm expecting once warzone hits end of life they'll transition to exclusive. So at least until Warzone 2 or whatever COD will probably be multiplat too.
right now Sony is discussing whether or not they can afford Microsoft on their platform gobbling up % of their profits from in game purchases
He was never going to lose any money. If he was fired now, he gets even more money than if he's pushed out later. That's how these things always go.
I can't see it, COD prints money on Playstation. Make it free on GP and full price on PS5
Yep. This move has no effect on my gaming habits, but it still really bothers me. Especially after Bethesda. One company is just ending up with too much hold.
Hi I own a Xbox Series X and I kinda like this.
GamePass is already the best thing in gaming. Like ever.
Just as I really love my Spotify.
GamePass is already the best thing in gaming. Like ever.
Just as I really love my Spotify.
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