Microsoft Buying Activision Blizzard

Safe to assume they'll clean those people out. Maybe even the owner as well since they can get him on "for cause" and pay him less to leave.

Early reports are that shithead Activision CEO Bobby Kotick will remain in that role and report to Phil Spencer. I feel like they'll find a way to get him out at some point. 

If people can manage to get their hands on decent hardware, thanks to those crypto/NFT fuckheads.

Yeah, all hardware (console and PC) is such a pain in the ass to get right now. I got super lucky with my PS5.

PS is already working on a gamepass equivalent but they actually need to make money from their video game department so they can't offer the incredible deals like microsoft can. It is why they are releasing shit on PC, they need that double dip for short term gains. Microsoft has zero shits to give about the short term.

Microsoft can just funnel in money from their other shit to video games and take a monetary loss in the short term in order to build up gamepass as the Netflix of gaming. Sony aint going to be releasing Horizon Zero Fun 2 day 1 on PS Now, meanwhile Elder Scrolls 6 will be a day 1 on gamepass. They are making the deal too good to ignore and it is kind of genius. People don't realize how much more microsoft is worth, its in the trillions. They just spent half of Sony's entire value in CASH to acquire activision blizzard. It is the largest such transaction in the 2020s and by far the largest gaming transaction ever. Sony cannot compete with this on multiple levels.

Sony very soon is going to buy someone like Sega or Square, they are ripe for the picking as well as some other smaller studios under 10 billion they are going to nab one of them.

The only way COD is going to be on Sony platforms is if it was involved in the deal in order to assuage monopolization laws. They said Elder Scrolls would be multiplatform when they bought it too, now it aint. You dont spent 70 billion to not flex on your rival.

Once you control the market with gamepass you will have everyone lining up to pay you to be included in there. And they can slowly raise price just as Netflix is doing. This is exactly what Disney should be doing to Netflix but they want those box office sales, they can afford the short term losses to put pressure on Netflix but they are stupid thankfully

Phil Spencer’s goal has always quantity of subscribers, 20 mil subscribers at $10 (is gamepass ultimate $10?) is 2.4 billion a year

His end goal is to force Sonys hand to allow gamepass on their system.

Then everyone can be friends

Console exclusivity is soooo stupid- that’s like dell and hp having their own games

Also cant wait for the Xbox - Nintendo partnership ;-)

That was already known though… we just didn’t know who the company was.