The UK’s CMA has expressed concern that Microsoft‘s Activision merger could “significantly weaken” PlayStation (Updated with lawyer breakdown)

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

Nah, Halo is a mess right now, and the last open-world Gears fell off the map quick.

Is that Gears Tactics game out and good yet?

Anyway, Forza is the only big IP from the 360 era still standing. I'm still hurt over how badly Microsoft mismanaged Crackdown.

 

[winb83]

The deal is going to go through, I'm sure. Hopefully not though
But man the aftermath is going to be great.
I want to see the mental gymnastic people do when xbox uses their money in the same way sony uses their market cap.
Locking down popular titles for years, dlc exclusives, marketing rights...


Sony stans "Oh now it's ok since MS is doing it, you didn't like it when sony did it"
"MS gotta buy their way to the top"
"It's not organic"

This is dead or whatever form it becomes won’t be worth doing. They just ran into a climate that doesn’t want big tech doing deals like this.

In all honesty this deal wouldn’t hurt competition in any meaningful way. We still stuck with a segmented market with two companies that don’t have any meaningful competition in their sectors.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Nah, Halo is a mess right now, and the last open-world Gears fell off the map quick.

Is that Gears Tactics game out and good yet?

Anyway, Forza is the only big IP from the 360 era still standing. I'm still hurt over how badly Microsoft mismanaged Crackdown.

Infinite is having issues with content but still has a healthy community the forge stuff is reall great and they have a big BR mode coming soon. In the 8 years since phil has been head of xbox Halo has sold around 30 million copies and made $3 Billion

Gears 5 was the most successful Gears game since 2 and the franchise has doubled its total sales since epic left.

People take forum discourse as reality. Like you’d also think COD is a terrible and failed franchise if you only go by what people are saying on forums.

 

[Koba St]

Phil Spencer keeps telling us he’s not interested in COD, only candy crash. Regulators keep telling him they’ll approve the deal if he gets rid of COD. So what’s the hold up Phil?

 

[SNG]

Phil Spencer keeps telling us he’s not interested in COD, only candy crash. Regulators keep telling him they’ll approve the deal if he gets rid of COD. So what’s the hold up Phil?

He knows damn well nikkas don’t give a fukk about candy crush. That won’t put a dent in the change he needs to compete with Sony.

 

[Koba St]

He knows damn well nikkas don’t give a fukk about candy crush. That won’t put a dent in the change he needs to compete with Sony.

But he told us Sony and Nintendo are not their rivals. Their rivals were Apple and Amazon

 

[Rekkapryde]

He knows damn well nikkas don’t give a fukk about candy crush. That won’t put a dent in the change he needs to compete with Sony.

Phil overcharging nikkaz for what they did to the Candy Crush

 

[Rekkapryde]

Phil Spencer keeps telling us he’s not interested in COD, only candy crash. Regulators keep telling him they’ll approve the deal if he gets rid of COD. So what’s the hold up Phil?

Can't keep his lies straight


that's why you gotta shut the fukk up.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

But he told us Sony and Nintendo are not their rivals. Their rivals were Apple and Amazon

 

[Koba St]

Goes to show you how massive COD is to Sony. No wonder the deal was blocked

Sony Corp’s entire market cap is $100b. Meanwhile this Activision deal was about $70b. That’s more than half of Sony’s entire net worth just for a studio, and they thought this shyt would be approved

 

[SNG]

Goes to show you how massive COD is to Sony. No wonder the deal was blocked

I thought this was common knowledge. It’s one of the top 3 system sellers. Sony ain’t lettin Microsoft fukk the money up.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I thought this was common knowledge. It’s one of the top 3 system sellers. Sony ain’t lettin Microsoft fukk the money up because of their own incompetence of developing studios.

fixed.

If they had done the bolded, they wouldn't need to buy out whole 3rd party publishers to have some games of their own.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Goes to show you how massive COD is to Sony. No wonder the deal was blocked

Sony Corp’s entire market cap is $100b. Meanwhile this Activision deal was about $70b. That’s more than half of Sony’s entire net worth just for a studio, and they thought this shyt would be approved

If you combine it with microsofts other acquisitions over the last 5 years they are essentially throwing sonys entire market cap at buying IP and 3rd party studios.

Not sure why anyone believed regulators weren’t gonna get in the ass

 

[Koba St]

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

If you combine it with microsofts other acquisitions over the last 5 years they are essentially throwing sonys entire market cap at buying IP and 3rd party studios.

Not sure why anyone believed regulators weren’t gonna get in the ass

It's just not good to consolidate all these major publishers like this.

I would honestly feel the same about Embracer or Ten Cent trying to purchase ActiBlizz.