Microsoft is Buying Activision Blizzard $68.7B ***Update: Acquisition Finalized***

[Deadwing88]

Seriously though let me know when they release anything exclusively epic as God Of War and I might buy a series x. Until then the demands for ps5 is light years greater .

I expect Starfield to be that game..

 

[Deadwing88]

 

[Madmick]

Microsoft PC Master Racer checking in.


Phil Spencer bless. The One.

@Dizzy on suicide watch

Imagine future COD, Overwatch, and Diablo iterations being closed off to the Playstation.
LIST: Here’s every Activision Blizzard IP Xbox now owns, including Crash Bandicoot and Guitar Hero

• Blur
• Caesar
• Call of Duty
• Candy Crush
• Crash Bandicoot
• Diablo
• DJ Hero
• Empire Earth
• Gabriel Knight
• Geometry Wars
• Guitar Hero
• Gun
• Hearthstone
• Heroes of the Storm
• Hexen
• Interstate ’76
• King’s Quest
• Laura Bow Mysteries
• The Lost Vikings
• Overwatch
• Phantasmagoria
• Pitfall
• Police Quest
• Prototype
• Quest for Glory
• Singularity
• Skylanders
• Solider of Fortune
• Space Quest
• Spyro the Dragon
• StarCraft
• Tenchu (legacy games)
• TimeShift
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
• True Crime
• World of Warcraft
• Zork

Picture of @Dizzy right now:

 

[Madmick]

MS will NOT make COD Xbox exclusive. The franchise makes way too much money on other platforms.

But man imagine if they did and it was built specifically for the Xbox architecture.

LOL, of course they will. Why do you think they spent $69 billion dollars?

 

[Smokes]

This is Awesome. Game pass Is the future.

I hope they buy Rockstar next.

 

[Zazen]

Sony needs to concede and make a deal with Microsoft to get gamepass on Playstation Network. You simply cannot compete with a behemoth like this that can toss 70 billion dollars at a company. The last thing they would want is for people to drop PS5 to go play CoD on another console. Playstation just has to keep making great games and hope that's enough. They'll never get into a bidding way with them.

 

[what-wut]

PlayStation is my ride or die biaaaatch, no matter what!

 

[Zazen]

This is Awesome. Game pass Is the future.

I hope they buy Rockstar next.

How is it good if they own everything though? I don't really want another Disney situation here. Disney bought a lot of franchises and imo has turned them to shit

 

[method115]

Sony needs to concede and make a deal with Microsoft to get gamepass on Playstation Network. You simply cannot compete with a behemoth like this that can toss 70 billion dollars at a company. The last thing they would want is for people to drop PS5 to go play CoD on another console. Playstation just has to keep making great games and hope that's enough. They'll never get into a bidding way with them.

I think it's to early for Sony to be making any moves like that. I think they should just keep focusing on what they are doing and see what happens with the industry in general. Losing COD is going to be a huge loss for them though. I know so many people who just play COD on playstation.

 

[Madmick]

Sony needs to concede and make a deal with Microsoft to get gamepass on Playstation Network. You simply cannot compete with a behemoth like this that can toss 70 billion dollars at a company. The last thing they would want is for people to drop PS5 to go play CoD on another console. Playstation just has to keep making great games and hope that's enough. They'll never get into a bidding way with them.

That's pursuing continuing relevance as a hardware vendor and therefore as a software market controller. That's a competitor. Microsoft isn't interested in that. Not in their interests.

I think the future is more in line with an idea that Amazon has struck, but doesn't have the chops to execute in the gaming space. With their Luna service, they clearly saw their Amazon cloud as a future marketplace on which other software vendors could sell their wares as "channels" similar to how premium TV channels package themselves on cable (ex. Comcast) or satellite (ex. DirecTV, Dish) or web services (ex. Sling). Right now Ubisoft is one of the only choices, and it's overpriced, but it was enough for me to deduce their vision.

Perhaps Sony could become a premium package on the Game Pass network. It would be another tier of Game Pass. It might be one only available to Ultimate users, and Microsoft could create another tier below Ultimate that also packages Xbox Live. Obviously Ultimate would become more expensive. That is in Microsoft's interest. Or it could be added a la carte because PC gamers would want it who don't care about also getting Xbox Live rights. Either way, Microsoft ups their revenues, and Sony takes their cut.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

If their stock was cheap even when their top performers weren’t stale, then I doubt this will change anything.

 

[Smokes]

How is it good if they own everything though? I don't really want another Disney situation here. Disney bought a lot of franchises and imo has turned them to shit

That your opinion. I love the Marvel universe they built. And I love that I have access to all of their library in one place and I don't have to worry about searching for anything, I know where it's gonna be.

 

[Madmick]

How is it good if they own everything though? I don't really want another Disney situation here. Disney bought a lot of franchises and imo has turned them to shit

Don't be oblivious to the real bad guy in the room-- the slumbering giant.

You take it for granted they will have everything on lockdown. First, they haven't even won a monopoly, and second, monopolies aren't so easy to retain. They always look ironclad for years, even decades, to then suddenly crumble far faster than they took to build. Western companies like Microsoft aren't nearly so strong as you seem to believe. The market is tectonic.

 

[Madmick]

I just looked it up, and this purchase price alone is worth more than all but 246 companies in the world. It matches the market cap of #247, ironically, one of those Chinese mobile gaming companies (Netease).
https://companiesmarketcap.com/page/3/

 

[Zazen]

That your opinion. I love the Marvel universe they built. And I love that I have access to all of their library in one place and I don't have to worry about searching for anything, I know where it's gonna be.

But they’ll never make another mature show again. It’s all filled with cringe humor. I like it overall but just compare Daredevil and Punisher on Netflix to stuff like Hawkeye on Disneyplus. I’d rather lose out on an extended universe if we can get some awesome mature and grounded storytelling

 

[Madmick]

It occurs to me that the spiritual successor to Hexen will likely be an Xbox console exclusive, and a Day 1 arrival on Game Pass for PC subscribers like myself.
3D Realms announces Graven, the spiritual successor to Hexen 2

 

[Canned Tuna]

That your opinion. I love the Marvel universe they built. And I love that I have access to all of their library in one place and I don't have to worry about searching for anything, I know where it's gonna be.

I'll never understand people who prioritize convenience so highly. How do you feel about fast food?

 

[Smokes]

But they’ll never make another mature show again. It’s all filled with cringe humor. I like it overall but just compare Daredevil and Punisher on Netflix to stuff like Hawkeye on Disneyplus. I’d rather lose out on an extended universe if we can get some awesome mature and grounded storytelling

Mature is overrated. The new Batman looks awful to me. And I never cared for daredevil or punisher. But that is not true. Disney is putting their Mature stuff on Hulu like M.O.D.OK.

And Moon Knight looks sick.

 

[Madmick]

An Xbox friend of mine just asked if I think World of Warcraft, including all its latest DLCs, will be added to Game Pass.

If it is, I wonder if there will be a sudden surge in playercount again.

 

[Deadwing88]