I’m pretty sure ABK will make some form of exclusive game for the platform.
As for Schrier, the man is a joke when he’s not reporting on his niche (investigative games journalism)
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Yeah I can see that Blizzard new IP being a exclusive and maybe the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games.
I can see CoD having some exclusive content too, in addition to CoD themed consoles around the holiday season.
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I think people who follow Bloomberg for real, do not really care about Jason. I would argue he brings more general market people to Bloomberg.
I would say most of the games will be exclusive (already released games won’t though). It is a very old debate, but there is no reason to think that Microsoft won’t make most of the games exclusive. Certain games they can’t make exclusive - like how can you make Warzone 2 exclusive if it will be released on Playstation under the contractual obligations? Some games would be mean to make exclusive - like Overwatch 2 (which is essentially an upgrade over Overwatch 1 released everywhere).
Yeah, I don’t think too many money obsessed sociopaths follow video games that much. Really cuts in to their insider trading and pump and dump scheming time
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I think this would generally be true if he stuck to his lane (reporting gaming leaks, gaming news, etc) but this article was different he was reporting about Wall Street betting against the deal and if you are a potential investor you may believe the deal will fall through and be discouraged from investing.
I don’t think the potential investors use Bloomberg to get this information. At least not openly available sources.
All this stuff about ActiBlizz being exclusive is entirely centered around COD…it’s the only game that truly matters. Yeah Diablo and Overwatch are big but those are basically the 3 biggest franchises (barring mobile games)
As long as those 3 are multiplat then likely everything else will get the Bethesda treatment
If MS is willing to make Elder Scrolls exclusive then it really shows they’re willing to make the biggest single player games exclusive and anything that isn’t a major GaaS game
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I don’t know whether the FTC and the new spunky leader wants to make noise by trying to block, but I truly believe that this is such a large strategic acquisition by Microsoft in a clear growth segment for the company in a market that is growing across the board with major foreign companies as huge players (Sony, Tencent, etc.) that they will absolutely fight and likely win something in court if they are forced to do so based on the regulatory review.
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Yeah, I think if FTC decides (I don’t believe that anyway) to go the courts with anything related to ABK, MS will fight tooth and nail there to get the deal passed. Actually with the letter regarding open story policy they are already giving a face FTC essentially.
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I can’t see the FTC fighting this, they don’t have the resources and just got tasked to go after oil companies while they’re blowing half their budget trying to undo previous Facebook acquisitions.
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And ironically Facebook got more damage from new rules regarding ads and storing the data in USA (in EU at least) than from whatever FTC was doing.
And with the rise of TikTok, the point regarding Facebook monopoly becomes even more moot.
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I think Facebook had more justication of being called a monopoly when they acuired this stuff compared to now. Like facebook has a decently amount of competition like youtube, tiktok, discord, reddit, twitter ect. Now a days
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(moved here as it is more appropriate here than in the acquisition thread)
With Microsoft openly supporting Open App Store policy, and them being anti Apple should win scores in various goverments).
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Hypothetically if the deal passes through. Is there a way too put the Skylanders games on BC with some sort of way to skip the need for the portal or figures
Guy is doubling down on the deal going through.
This is what he thinks about the current stock market. He heavily criticizes wall street:
"But overwhelmingly large companies in America, they became poker chips and people were buying and selling like three-day calls, two-day calls,” he said, referring to derivatives that became the choice instrument for many new day traders in the market. “Wall Street makes money one way or another, catching the crumbs that fall off the table of capitalism.”
Interesting article.
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Who is he?! I have absolutely no idea!! But in the forum I was, he was practically considered the Nostradamus of investors according to people there!
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Warren Buffett is currently the 5th richest person in the world. Net worth of roughly $120 billion.
Guess Warren Buffet doesn’t read Bloomberg, he would have known this acquisition is doomed. 
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He is the type of person who can practically sink a company if he decides the future outlook is poor.
I am not surprised he is doubling down. If you have the cash to risk, buying ABK shares is such an easy way to make serious money.
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