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Zero chance they make COD an exclusive.
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You think they'd throw 70bn at a company just to keep releasing its games on a rival platform, where said rival takes a big cut on its store? This is the same discussion as Elder Scrolls all over again.
 
Ainu said:
You think they'd throw 70bn at a company just to keep releasing its games on a rival platform, where said rival takes a big cut on its store? This is the same discussion as Elder Scrolls all over again.
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I was a little bit annoyed at the thought of having to buy an Xbox to play ES/Fallout but this I couldn't care less about. I've not played COD for a good 10 years.
 
Ainu said:
You think they'd throw 70bn at a company just to keep releasing its games on a rival platform, where said rival takes a big cut on its store? This is the same discussion as Elder Scrolls all over again.
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Yeah it's not even worth a debate. No chance new games not already in development come to PS.
 
Berbaclass said:
I was a little bit annoyed at the thought of having to buy an Xbox to play ES/Fallout but this I couldn't care less about. I've not played COD for a good 10 years.
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Same here, the only Activision published game I've bought in a long time was Sekiro (you'd almost forget they published it). There's actually a decent chance the company's output will improve under MS.

However, it's undeniable that COD is a major force in gaming and this is a monumental shift in power that has simply never been seen in the video gaming industry. Bethesda was a dangerous precedent, this is not just a confirmation but obliterates that previous deal. We've already known they can basically buy any publisher out there they want and keep their games from other systems, now they've made it clear that they're absolutely willing to do that. I don't see how this is anything other than deeply concerning for the future of the games industry.
 
Ainu said:
Same here, the only Activision published game I've bought in a long time was Sekiro (you'd almost forget they published it). There's actually a decent chance the company's output will improve under MS.

However, it's undeniable that COD is a major force in gaming and this is a monumental shift in power that has simply never been seen in the video gaming industry. Bethesda was a dangerous precedent, this is not just a confirmation but obliterates that previous deal. We've already known they can basically buy any publisher out there they want and keep their games from other systems, now they've made it clear that they're absolutely willing to do that. I don't see how this is anything other than deeply concerning for the future of the games industry.
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Begining of the end.
 
Deery said:
100 million downloads worldwide for Warzone.
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I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that Activision would be worth anywhere near 70 fecking billion :lol:

I still genuinely don't understand how that is the case. I get the COD is a major game but 70 billion!

How much is Take-Two worth?
 
Ainu said:
Same here, the only Activision published game I've bought in a long time was Sekiro (you'd almost forget they published it). There's actually a decent chance the company's output will improve under MS.

However, it's undeniable that COD is a major force in gaming and this is a monumental shift in power that has simply never been seen in the video gaming industry. Bethesda was a dangerous precedent, this is not just a confirmation but obliterates that previous deal. We've already known they can basically buy any publisher out there they want and keep their games from other systems, now they've made it clear that they're absolutely willing to do that. I don't see how this is anything other than deeply concerning for the future of the games industry.
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After Bethesda there were a lot of people saying that Bethesda was one thing but there's no way they could ever go and buy a behemoth like Rockstar or EA.

Well, they just bought an even bigger behemoth than those.
 
Berbaclass said:
I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that Activision would be worth anywhere near 70 fecking billion :lol:

I still genuinely don't understand how that is the case. I get the COD is a major game but 70 billion!

How much is Take-Two worth?
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They have a lot of extremely popular franchises that aren't COD.

 
My only thought is long term Microsoft don’t see consoles or making them as thing and intend to go strictly into gamepass and publishing.

It certainly will be interesting to see what happens the short term is obvious instead of creating and supporting new talent they just wanna stop the competition.
 
Bosws87 said:
My only thought is long term Microsoft don’t see consoles or making them as thing and intend to go strictly into gamepass and publishing.

It certainly will be interesting to see what happens the short term is obvious instead of creating and supporting new talent they just wanna stop the competition.
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Of course, the money has always been in software and not hardware. They understand this because of Windows.
 
Ainu said:
Same here, the only Activision published game I've bought in a long time was Sekiro (you'd almost forget they published it). There's actually a decent chance the company's output will improve under MS.

However, it's undeniable that COD is a major force in gaming and this is a monumental shift in power that has simply never been seen in the video gaming industry. Bethesda was a dangerous precedent, this is not just a confirmation but obliterates that previous deal. We've already known they can basically buy any publisher out there they want and keep their games from other systems, now they've made it clear that they're absolutely willing to do that. I don't see how this is anything other than deeply concerning for the future of the games industry.
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It’s a big blow for PlayStation for real, when you think of the amount of streamers that mostly play COD and the players worldwide it has, there is many I feel will be making the change to X-Box which is a load of bullshit because PlayStation is a better console and Microsoft are strategically throwing money into a well known game to steal users.
 
Berbaclass said:
Yeah, I've just been looking in an attempt to understand that figure but I really don't get it.
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I'm not sure what there is to get? As in how they could possibly be worth $70bn? They're the biggest video game publisher in the US and Europe by both revenue and market cap. They have their hands in a lot of franchises, games etc. across just about every platform.
 
Massive Spanner said:
I'm not sure what there is to get. They're the biggest video game publisher in the US and Europe by both revenue and market cap. They have their hands in a lot of franchises, games etc. across just about every platform.
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I'm just genuinely shocked at the valuation. 70 Billion is a lot of money.
 
Christ. Not even sure what to think of that.
 
Berbaclass said:
I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that Activision would be worth anywhere near 70 fecking billion :lol:

I still genuinely don't understand how that is the case. I get the COD is a major game but 70 billion!

How much is Take-Two worth?
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£13 billion.
 
Massive Spanner said:
After Bethesda there were a lot of people saying that Bethesda was one thing but there's no way they could ever go and buy a behemoth like Rockstar or EA.

Well, they just bought an even bigger behemoth than those.
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That was always daft. With Satya Nadella's support they could buy any publisher.

There are people saying their goal is for PlayStation to eventually allow Game Pass on their platform. For me they're not even arsed about that, they just want to kill off the competition completely. Even if it was Sony buying Square-Enix I'd say the same that it is shit for the industry as a whole.

I won't be surprised to see Microsoft announce a deal to acquire EA by the end of the year.
 
Damien said:
That was always daft. With Satya Nadella's support they could buy any publisher.

There are people saying their goal is for PlayStation to eventually allow Game Pass on their platform. For me they're not even arsed about that, they just want to kill off the competition completely. Even if it was Sony buying Square-Enix I'd say the same that it is shit for the industry as a whole.

I won't be surprised to see Microsoft announce a deal to acquire EA by the end of the year.
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It's kind of a payback for Sony hogggling on exclusives for decades. It was bound to happen once a competent man in charge like Spencer came along. Btw, Microsoft doesn't care about exclusives, the'yll happily port these games to Playstation, but Playstation won't allow gamepass there which is basically Microsoft's whole strategy at the moment.
 
Damien said:
That was always daft. With Satya Nadella's support they could buy any publisher.

There are people saying their goal is for PlayStation to eventually allow Game Pass on their platform. For me they're not even arsed about that, they just want to kill off the competition completely. Even if it was Sony buying Square-Enix I'd say the same that it is shit for the industry as a whole.

I won't be surprised to see Microsoft announce a deal to acquire EA by the end of the year.
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Yeah i don't think that's driving motivation either, though of course they would do it if Sony would have it as it'd be a quick way to increase their subscriber numbers. But they're thinking long term beyond consoles into pure subscriptions on whatever device people wanna play on, likely on streaming sticks and native apps in smart tvs. At that point gamepass will be like Netflix, where pretty much every gamer will almost have to get it.
 
I haven’t played WoW for a long time so can’t comment on its current state but it would be a shame if it was dumbed down further for the sake of making it playable on a console controller.
 
Even when Microsoft buy Activision everyone chats about it in the PlayStation thread :lol:
 
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