That's already happening
But I have a blackhole in my heart maybe more accurately my head that needs filling/distracting.
That's already happening
They also anticipated 10M Starfield and Indiana Jones sales on PS5 but determined it would be more beneficial to make them exclusive.
Xbox's Phil Spencer Seemingly Decided to Make All ZeniMax Games Exclusives in 2021 Meeting - IGN
Phil Spencer apparently made a "big decision" to make all ZeniMax games Xbox exclusive in a November 2021 meeting.www.ign.com
Yeah, that sounds right. On Google Play Store that'd work, but wouldn't Apple prevent it from working unless someone jailbroke their phone?
Me thinks future gaming acquisitions (by Sony AND Microsoft) will be more difficult.
The feds just laid out new guidelines for approving mergers — here they are
The new guidelines are meant to give businesses and courts a sense of how the two agencies determine whether a deal is unlawful.www.cnbc.com
If you read the article that has the email Phil has said officially to Bethesda all franchises are exclusive going forward. This was a big deal to Tim Stuart because their profit estimates for the Bethesda purchase was based around existing IP being released on other consoles. Changing that would require them to redo all of their profit estimates.
Apple is set to allow some form of sideloading, at least for the EU.
It was holding me over until the shit storm from the DMA and regulators vs Google starts.
Note those are projections. focusing on less platforms does have the benefit of avoiding bugs being addressed on both. I would be pretty surprised if this wasn't one of the cleaner games released by bethesda.That's already happening
They also anticipated 10M Starfield and Indiana Jones sales on PS5 but determined it would be more beneficial to make them exclusive.
Xbox's Phil Spencer Seemingly Decided to Make All ZeniMax Games Exclusives in 2021 Meeting - IGN
Phil Spencer apparently made a "big decision" to make all ZeniMax games Xbox exclusive in a November 2021 meeting.
It's business not petty. They determined that in the long run ES6 being exclusive would make them more money. One time sales vs. more subscribers and getting new people into the ecosystem. I don't know the exact calculus but I imagine getting 1 new person to buy an Xbox is worth a LOT of individual game sales on another platform, especially when those are all one time transactions. I think that changes when you're talking service games. So I also wouldn't be surprised if Zenimax Online's next game was an exception, but who knows.
Sony is already doing it with its exclusive deals. That's just business
agreed, i think the CMA are aware of what MS is offering. they were willing to provide the CAT with their evidence etc close of business yesterday, just over 24 hours after the case management hearing. the CAT allowed them an extra day and a half.
I agree, I don't think that email, as shitty as it was, is fullproof evidence. Things change, and a lot of things are changing with this very deal. It could still go either way, but I hope as many people as possible get to play ES6.
Ah I think I agree with you then? I'm going to be honest I don't really understand what you two are arguing about then so I'm just going to back off lol.
Umm, they are worth 2T? Maybe they should, idk, invest in first party new studios and IPs, take their lumps and come back stronger just like they did with 360 and how Nintendo/Sony has done? I find it laughable that they were forced into anything. The very fact that they are spending 70b to solve a problem is evidence that no, they were not forced into anything.
But isn't intentionally reducing access to IP libraries to make your own product more appealing to consumers the same thing?
CMA deadline is August 29th, so anytime likely before then, probably mid august
I don't have Twitter so I can't see replies to that, if there are any.
I would imagine the earliest in theory would be Friday under miraculous circumstances after the evidence is submitted Thursday and the CAT going from conditional adjournment to full adjournment or whatever. But that is way, way, unlikely.
Building new studios and IPs from scratch is incredibly difficult and time consuming, we're probably talking about 11th gen consoles before these studios really have much to show. Xbox is not in position to wait out two generations to get a first party stable of games finally releasing on Game Pass.
It's coming out of ABK's cash stockpile so it doesn't. All it does is reduce the assets in ABK that MS is buying.
Xbox is one small part of MS. It's not as if MS is going to use all of its resources to focus on Xbox. Comparing the size of MS to Nintendo, which is essentially just a gaming company that dabbles in other stuff to MS which is a OS/Office/Cloud company that dabbles in gaming, is not really an apples to apples comparison. Sony is somewhere in the middle as it too does a lot, but gaming is a much higher percentage of Sony's revenue than Xbox is for MS.
So? They still own the IP and dictate the contract/work to be done by Nightdive for Q2. Nightdive doesn't just get access to the IP and decide what to do with it. Bethesda Softworks still publishes it (aka chooses platforms to sell it on).
It seems there needs to be some sort of third party consultation. I imagine that part will take the longest.
I think MSFT still buys ATVI for $95/share, but ATVI will issue the $0.99 dividend to shareholders with their own cash before the deal closes.
Third party consultation to review the agreement/divestiture stuff? Or like third party submissions for commentary (similar to how they waited for comments from Sony, Google, citizens, etc)? I think the CMA said they could crunch that down to a week and still do their due diligence in the CAT hearing the other day.
Me thinks future gaming acquisitions (by Sony AND Microsoft) will be more difficult.
The feds just laid out new guidelines for approving mergers — here they are
The new guidelines are meant to give businesses and courts a sense of how the two agencies determine whether a deal is unlawful.
700m I think, you have to own shares on the August 2nd and it pays out on the 10th iirc.
