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Aren't these games all on Xbox? How are they holes in the Xbox line-up?
Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard King for $69 Billion on 2023-10-13
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Well if you dont have holes, you should atleast be able to create holes on others line up
Not if Activision stop making them. They've moved Vicarious Visions over to a Blizzard support studio and Toys for Bob to a Call of Duty support studio.
Seems that China/SAMR approved as well.
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Microsoft's planned $69B Activision purchase gets China antitrust approval - report
Microsofts (MSFT) planned $69 billion acquisition of Activision received approval from China's antitrust regulator. Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation granted...
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No arguing with Florian Mueller's math. 
Looking at the Chinese announcement, it looks like great chunks of the IP were not considered relevant to the assessment because it contravened Chinese cultural prohibitions. And Blizzard were forced to cease operating World of Warcraft in China due that the contractural dispute/spat with their Chinese partner. I had thought that was going to be a short term thing when them appointment somebody else, but apparently not. At least not yet.
Looking at the Chinese announcement, it looks like great chunks of the IP were not considered relevant to the assessment because it contravened Chinese cultural prohibitions. And Blizzard were forced to cease operating World of Warcraft in China due that the contractural dispute/spat with their Chinese partner. I had thought that was going to be a short term thing when them appointment somebody else, but apparently not. At least not yet.
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But that logic Microsoft need to buy everything in case the publishers decides it doesn't want to make them anymore. Now that may well not have been far from the truth for Microsoft's intentions 18 months ago, but in real terms a hole is only problem when competitors have something to fill it.
PlayStation has far bigger holes given Microsoft now own two of the premier western RPG studios with Bethesda and Obsidian.
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Don't be surprised if one of the reasons that MS acquired or wanted to acquire ABK was to cease operations for 343i and move Halo to one of the COD development teams. Either that or to merge one of the COD dev teams into 343i or have one of the COD teams work in conjunction with 343i on Halo.
343i has shown that while they've gotten better at making a Halo game (Halo: Infinite is, pun intended, infinitely better than Halo 4 and 5) they still aren't up to where Bungie was WRT making Halo games.
That's left a relatively large pothole in what was formerly one of their strengths. They've got Gears which is still strong but is a 3rd person shooter and they've got Halo, their 1st person shooter, sort of just limping along right now.
Hell, who knows, maybe they'll task the Blizzard Overwatch team with creating a Halo MMO shooter?
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Don't be surprised if one of the reasons that MS acquired or wanted to acquire ABK was to cease operations for 343i and move Halo to one of the COD development teams. Either that or to merge one of the COD dev teams into 343i or have one of the COD teams work in conjunction with 343i on Halo.
343i has shown that while they've gotten better at making a Halo game (Halo: Infinite is, pun intended, infinitely better than Halo 4 and 5) they still aren't up to where Bungie was WRT making Halo games.
That's left a relatively large pothole in what was formerly one of their strengths. They've got Gears which is still strong but is a 3rd person shooter and they've got Halo, their 1st person shooter, sort of just limping along right now.
Hell, who knows, maybe they'll task the Blizzard Overwatch team with creating a Halo MMO shooter?
Regards,
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I think its a bit unfair to 343i as a whole. The single player portion of Infinite was great. It's my favorite halo since 3 actually in terms of single player. I think the people at the top of 343 need to all be replaced. I also think they need to move on from that engine they have been using for decades. I hate that everything seems to become an unreal engine game , but maybe that wouldn't be so bad. I have also heard that 343 has been looking into the ID tech engine , specifically a newer version of it.
So I don't think they need to merge COD dev tems into 343i or shut down 343i. They should perhaps put a few people from some of the cod teams that have been successful perhaps a level or two down from the top in those studios and place them in the top roles at 343i . Then give halo a good 5-6 years rest while they work on the next one.
Even without Activision they still have ID which has doom/ Wolfenstein and they can easily create a team to handle quake for them. Then at the very least they have Doom/wolf/quake/gears/ perfect dark to release before another halo. So that is already another 5 years of dev time before a halo has to be ready.
At the end of the day its going to be the UK standing alone. MS will win against the FTC in court. So the question is who blinks first. IF MS was going to blink surely they would have already ended the acquisition.
Why haven't any major news outlets reported this, yet? The only ones reporting this, is Seeking Alpha (which is questionable), and this dude (who is questionable). Not that I think the Chinese wouldn't approve it, but I rather hear it from more creditable sources.
Contrary to what others (mostly those with invested interest) are stating, CMA/UK approval is needed and can't be circumvented in the current regulatory agreement between the major markets (i.e., US, EU, and the UK). Sure Microsoft and their lawyers will try, but as I see it, this acquisition is dead without the CMA's approval.
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And this scenario is likely only only to increase. Regardless of specific merger and acquisiton regulator assessments in this case, a lot of Governments and regulators that exist outside of this space, are moving in the direction of developing policies that make it more difficult for "big tech" to operate as it has been allowed to do and grow and dominate.
And the simple reason for this, is that in tech and with vertical integration, walled gardens and subscription models being so pervasive, that it's diminishing the opportunities for genuine new competition. When you get to be the size of Amazon, Apple, Google, Nvidia or Microsoft, if you are a competitor with a genuinely new idea, you have almost no chance go compete or change a market, the only competition is who will buy you to add to ever-growing impenetrable wall of uncompetitiveness.
Not sure, but here's some more confirmation using a Microsoft statement. I'm still trying to find a direct link to the MS Statement.
I can't find it as well, other than outlets passing around the same original source.
China approves Microsoft-Activision merger
China's State Administration for Market Regulation merger control agency is said to have approved & cleared the $68.7 billion Microsoft-Activision merger.
www.tweaktown.com
I was just in process of replying with the same results as you. I can't find it, and it seems that statement is taken directly from the first SeekingAlpha report.
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This is being reported inside China as well, but the 'great firewall of China' limits most western search engines ability to index and translate it.I can't find it as well, other than outlets passing around the same original source.
China approves Microsoft-Activision merger
China's State Administration for Market Regulation merger control agency is said to have approved & cleared the $68.7 billion Microsoft-Activision merger.
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