Ah yea let's support s***ty hardware support for Nintendo and Ass digital marketplace for Sony

But Sony complained about the acquisition though?

If they did it's probably because they know Microsoft is about to do some snake s*** lmao

Maybe because Sony wasn’t being an annoying gnat and b****ing and moaning crying about their deals

If Sony just shuts up and lets the deal go through like it should then none of this ever takes place.

What? You want Microsoft to just say “oh my apologies Sony. Since you don’t like it but everyone else does let’s just call the deal off”

Gamers win if the deal goes through. Period. Gamers win and consumers win.

Sony is being anti gamer and consumer as usual.

🤡

They were never leaders

Hope the EU makes exclusives unconstitutional tho idgaf

In the generation I mentioned they were until the tail end of the consoles life cycle

Xbox 360 shipped sooner and was cheaper at launch

If this deal goes through Microsoft will own a large piece of the industry and will control what they offer sony

It's not about gamers

Xbox is trying to regain their place in the market and by brute force (sign this contract and we will let you have COD at the same time as every other platform)

Microsoft doesn't give af about gamers, they're down bad this gen

The Game Pass is an unequivocal win, and them owning Blizzard will be the best thing for that studio considering Microsoft’s track record with games like Age of Empires and Flight Simulator.

If they can’t own ABK then all gaming companies, Sony and Nintendo included, need to be banned from having any console exclusives - all games for all devices.

Bro you know that if the deal goes through then Microsoft only owns 10% of the gaming industry right? Right now they own 6.5% even without activision/blizzard.

If the deal goes through they would become the #3 gaming company lmao

Like it’s really overstated how big of a deal this is in terms of monopoly and s***. Sony just being cry babies

only in the US market

globally microsoft was lacking

reuters.com/markets/deals/eu-unlikely-demand-asset-sales-microsoft-activision-deal-sources-say-2023-03-02

It’s happening

Lobbying won

I aint mad tho

in the long run this will hurt consumers but in the next 5 years microsoft tryna fight for the market share will lead to better deals for us I believe

in the end tho all the acquisitions are meaningless if the games dont come and microsoft is famous for ruining developers

I’m confused . What situation happened in that generation where Microsoft was trying to make a big acquisition and a competitor was doing their best to stop it. They had no reason to do this in that generation , your comparison is confusing. How is it being a sore loser to provide evidence to showcase why you believe the deal should go through

This seems like a fanboy response since I’m struggling to deduct the logic

Last part odee cap lol what developers have they ruined this gen? This is Spencer’s Xbox now and everyone in the gaming industry besides Sony has been wanting this to go through because they know Microsoft can fix actiblizzard

They arent EA but they have a history of closing studios

Also Bungie (which isnt part of microsoft anymore) and Obsidian havent really blessed us since during the time or since they were at microsoft and these studios were class

Formeredit
Sold or spun off
Access Software/Salt Lake Games Studio/Indie Games — Links series — Sold to Take-Two Interactive
Bungie — Halo series — Became independent
Lift London — Removed from Microsoft's games business106
Twisted Pixel Games — The Gunstringer, LocoCycle, The Maw, 'Splosion Man series — Became independent
Wingnut Interactive — Peter Jackson's joint venture game studio — Sold to WingNut Films107
Closed or consolidated
Aces Game Studio — Microsoft Flight Simulator series — Closed
BigPark — Kinect Joy Ride, Joy Ride Turbo — Consolidated
Carbonated Games — Closed
Digital Anvil — Brute Force, Freelancer — Consolidated109
Ensemble Studios — Age of Empires series, Age of Mythology series, Halo Wars — Closed
FASA Studio — MechWarrior series, Shadowrun, Crimson Skies series — Closed
Good Science Studio — Kinect Adventures, Kinect Fun Labs, Kinect Star Wars — Consolidated
Hired Gun — Halo 2 PC port — Consolidated110
Lionhead Studios — Fable series, Black & White series — Closed
Microsoft Studios Japan — Phantom Dust — Closed
Microsoft Studios Victoria — Closed
Press Play — Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, Kalimba — Closed
Team Dakota — Project Spark — Consolidated
Xbox Entertainment Studios — Closed (TV and movie studio)
Xbox Live Productions — Consolidated (Publishing arm)

Not having call of duty on PlayStation in 10 years but pc Xbox gamepass having it won’t hurt gamers as much as you think

This an odd example because 99% of us didn’t play any of the games of the studios that fully closed or creative directors and people left formed own studios etc

implications of this are the craziest thing to come from this so far

why would sony think that

Takes one to know one

PS3 flashbacks

But tbf that’s cus the ps3 was hard to develop for