Still quoting the troll?
Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard King for $69 Billion on 2023-10-13
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are we going B3D users to harass him again cause he got caught once? I mean.... People can change, i’m not the same person as I was when I made certain posts.
Johnny Awesome
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GP is right around 30 million subs right now, I think. There's not enough content yet to see if it's going to drive sales. That's why MS wants to buy ABK.
Even COD alone when you factor in the cost of Xbox Live almost justifies a GP sub. I'll stop believing in GP if MS can get their content to 4-6 AAA games per year on GP and it still doesn't gain traction. Acquiring ABK is their attempt at solving 1/4 of that problem at least.
Nobody harassed him. He is an untrustworthy nitpicky source who adds his own color to pass the impression he wants.
Um, he is literally a paid MS consultant with an obvious and personal bias since the announcement of this merger. Besides getting caught shilling and astroturfing, he has a history of harassing others, making bad faith arguments, and has been called out many times by actual lawyers on his lack of knowledge on laws, especially pertaining to the CMA/UK case. That being said, his personal takes are so clown worthy, I find them amusing when posted. So keep posting them away, I need a chuckle once in a while.
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Yes, but being a troll is just a hobby.
He made it a life goal
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No, they lied. Phil Spencer stated in court that he was sorry that didn't make it clearer that they were taking everything first party exclusive.
And to be clear, he wasn't sorry about not being clearer at all, he is actually sorry about being caught in the lie and Microsoft having to release documents demonstrating this.
Silent_Buddha
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OK, that's a long transcription of the whole thing. What specifically in there are you trying to point to. I've read through a bunch of it so far, and all it's proving is that MS are feeling incentivized to go multiplatform in the future due to the performance of Bethesda titles going exclusive and the impact that is having on their revenue models.
There are 1-5 case projections with [1] keeping everything the same and [5] making everything exclusive. They are having a difficult time justifying to the Board of Directors that [5] would be worthwhile and would meet the revenue projections of [1] even accounting for potential increases in user base, additional GP subscriptions, etc. Hence, why the ABK deal hasn't even considered [5] since there is no way to meet the revenue projections from case [1] and there would be incredible push back from the Board of Directors. Case [1] makes Microsoft's life easy WRT investor confidence and approval. Case 2-4 make things progressively more difficult while case 5 is impossible WRT the Board of Directors and investors.
IE - yes, back in 2020, [5] was considered and started for Bethesda, but due to pressure from the Board and other area's cases 1-4 are now under consideration. You can likely thank the performance of Redfall for that as I'm sure that really spooked the board (investors). Likely Hi-Fi Rush also nudged MS towards discarding case [5] going forward as it likely also didn't meet projections for case [5] (inclusive of not just revenue, but GP subscription change, install base change, etc.) compared to if it was case [1].
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SB
Sony doesn't have to stop being number one but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be providing a diverse portfolio of games. MS is investing big to make a 3rd party mobile store and more content for xbox. Sony needs to change with the times otherwise they wont be market leaders anymore.
Just like Blockbuster didn't want to offer rentals through the mail or streaming content and another competitor passed them by. The same thing will happen with Sony. They can at any time go day and date with their titles. Them closing studios only to buy new studios to make the same 3rd person action games just doubles down on one type of game and leaves them vulnerable to changes in the 3rd party market. This all comes down the choices sony made.
Sony is treated differently than MS
On this site you have people saying MS shouldn't be able to buy 3rd party companies because it hurts competition but when Sony buys a 3rd party company we hear people wax philosophically about how close Sony was to that company and how they both nurtured at the teet of their shared mother or some shit to excuse sony doing it. Even the FTC does it. OH having exclusive skins for COD would make the playstation version worse. The judge so nicely pointed out that it is what Sony is doing now.
It's very simple shifty. If Sony can buy companies up to make exclusive games for them , then MS can do the same thing.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Remember, Xbox is not just the console now. Xbox = all Microsoft games on all platforms. Currently that's mostly just the Xbox console and PC, but games that MS releases on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch are also part of Xbox games.
Changing times where the Xbox console is only a part of Microsoft's plans for the Xbox brand.
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SB
If they bought it for normal business reasons(I think there are potential others) then they bought it to increase the Gamepass business wherever that might be. So this is beyond your simplistic binary option.
I have no idea what that tweet is supposed to prove. Perhaps twitter's current woes are making it appear differently for me than it is for you or others, but it appears to have no connection to what you or I or anyone else here is talking about. Regardless, we are talking about conflicting statements made more than a year apart, which bears out the statements regarding an evolution of positions regarding exclusives. This position is reenforced by actions. Microsoft has developed or published enough games on PS5 to put them in the top 10 by volume. This new position is also proven by the contacts Microsoft has entered regarding future Activision titles if the deal closes.
Thats again an example of that contradiction. Since XBOX is NOT a console, then the whole argument of being "third" in the console space, needing exclusives doesnt hold, and is another backpedalling between arguments according to how they see fit.
If we can't be clear about what XBox means now, people should make the distinction between MS Consoles and MS Gaming.
Or Xbox Consoles and Xbox Business/Gaming. Etiher way, the qualifier is needed.
Or Xbox Consoles and Xbox Business/Gaming. Etiher way, the qualifier is needed.
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