Well this is relatively big news.
Personally, I'm very uneasy with single companies owning more and more of the popular gaming space.
When Phil Spencer said they were changing aspects of their relationship with Activision, I did not think that this was a possiblity. Not even close
I thought maybe they'd stop exclusive DLC or something.
The deal's apparently worth nearly $70 billion. Very possible you'd be into antitrust territory with this sort of uber-powerplay.
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It's official
Christ, that would be a massive change in the gaming landscape.
That's utter insanity....
The amount of franchises they just bought is phenomenal. Absolutely an industry changing event.
They need to fire every single person who was involved with the scandals over the last while straight away.
Surely there has to be an Anti-competitive thing going on here to block it.
Buying all of Bethesda was bad enough but Microsoft is a bit too big with this.
lol, but XBOX hAs No GaMez.
or does it have all of them?
Wow. Just wow. Obscene.
Stick your Demon's Souls remaster Sony fanboys. Xbox is getting a Sekiro remaster!
Honestly I think if there is an antitrust lawsuit that the US supreme court would drop it if MS promise to use this new acquisition to remaster Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries.
Is Bobby Kotick out the door then?
Either way, the end result is that gamers will suffer. As a PC player, I won't see much if any impact. But for a PS gamer, they could see themselves cut off from a lot of franchises.
Holy Christ this is ludicrious, they pretty much own multi platform titles and if the rumoured ubisoft being offered on gamepass as well, what else is there for them to buy.
I would be an advocate of xbox and especially gamepass but this is nuts
Bobby will be given a golden handshake and sent on his way, to fester on some tropical island.
But think how all the game pass subscribes will benefit!!
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Wow, huge move! Thankfully Acti/Blizzard have no games that I'd miss except Tony Hawk which looks like they already killed off. Imagine COD exclusive to xbox and free* on gamepass. Now that would shift a few units.
It's alright though, Sony are about to announceh that they are merging PS Now with PS Plus so.... who needs xbox :(
It feels like Sony is getting suffocated slowly, they don't have the alternate revenue streams or datacenter infrastructure to keep up with the industry anymore, may be time for them to go for a more Nintendo like approach with very strong first party titles used to shift less powerful hardware.
Sony will go down the route of strong first party titles, but i hope they dont go the way of Sega.
Yeah that seems to be their only option. They have nowhere near the amount of money that Microsoft have to buy other studios
Nope.
Now begins the narrative of some gamers who'll claim that future releases won't be Xbox/Game Pass console exclusives.
Jesus christ, this company is too large to fathom
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Even worse, I had people on Reddit screaming at me for suggesting Starfield would be an Xbox console exclusive.
At first glance, it's really not good for the console industry.
SO game pass just went from being the netflix of gaming to being the disney+ of gaming
There's so many thoughts on this but what's sticking out in my mind as a sort of oh that stings thought is that the last call of duty on a playstation console will be "call of duty vanguard" Also what happens to live service titles like Warzone, do they just stop on playstation full stop?
There is also the other route
Microsoft gets so big on the software side and game pass makes them so much money that they opt out of the dedicated console making business. The xbox turns into a sort of pseudo entry level entertainment PC and they push game pass onto every format they can.
I've said before that I think it's a great thing when Sony/MS buy smaller studios they may or may not have had a strong existing relationship with, empower them to create new games and franchises and help build those studios up. Likewise, Sony/MS doing a deal with big studios to have them make a game exclusively for them is also fine.
Sony/MS buying existing huge studios where that studio's games would have been coming out on both systems for years, is more about taking those franchises away from the competitor than about providing something for your own system. The majority of the franchises MS got with Bethesda and now that they'll get with Activision-Blizzard are ones that would have historically been on Playstation as well.
This move is ludicrous. I can't fault MS for doing it, because they have the warchest to do it. But man, talk about pay to win....
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