Microsoft defends Activision buyout by claiming that Activision doesn't make any "must have" games

[Gizmo_Duck]

Specifically, with respect to Activision Blizzard video games, there is nothing unique about the video games developed and published by Activision Blizzard that is a ‘must have’ for rival PC and console video game distributors that could give rise to a foreclosure concern,” read Microsoft’s response to the New Zealand Commerce Commission, published in a reportfrom June. That means that Microsoft don’t consider their future ownership of Activision Blizzard’s franchises such as Call Of Duty to cause issues that would prevent their rivals – among whom they identify Valve in the PC space – from competing against them.

Bear in mind that Call Of Duty alone has raked in $27 billion (£22 billion) for Activision Blizzard since the series debuted in 2003, as an earnings call revealed last year. At the time of that call, the company’s Chief Operating Officer Daniel Alegre said Call Of Duty was “one of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time”.

Microsoft defend Activision-Blizzard buyout by saying the company don’t make any “must have” games

Microsoft have justified their $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard by telling investigators the company doesn't produce "must have" games.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

Its been entertaining watching sony and microsoft downplay and overstate how big this acquisition is

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

shytting on the company you bought

 

[Monsanto]

 

[Pressure]

Sony stans bigging up COD

Hashtag Shambles

This might be more desperate than Gizzard downloading Destiny 2 after the acquisition was announced

 

[McPiff]

damn lol

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Ya Sinning Mane]

They not lying
All they make is boring baby shooters for casual FPS fans

Don’t see how anyone with a iq over 70 plays that garbage daily and hourly.

To the point of watching streamers in bot lobbies
Supporting that garbage

 

[Spliff]

There’s really posters that don’t/won’t see what MS is doing here

 

[Womb Raider]

Son

Console wars mimic rasslin in all the worst ways

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

They not lying
All they make is boring baby shooters for casual FPS fans

Don’t see how anyone with a iq over 70 plays that garbage daily and hourly.

To the point of watching streamers in bot lobbies
Supporting that garbage

Crash Bandicoot Spyro Tony Hawk games Activision has a lot of dope IPs outside of COD

 

[Luke Cage]

They shytting on Sony's mascot

Activism makes all the crash bandicoot games. but yeah i don't play most of their games. except for maybe the x-men games. that deadpool game was cool too.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Example #239058 why you don't take corporate suits seriously.

Why even say something that retarded.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Example #239058 why you don't take corporate suits seriously.

Why even say something that retarded.

It's the equivalent of telling someone this when we all know the truth

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

 

[TripleAgent]

Sony does so much bettter than MS, so who cares if MS had COD to itself?