Just looked this up and you’re right.
ABK have a even bigger market cap then Nintendo!
Outside of Sony, Nintendo and Tencent I suspect the nearest publisher by gaming revenue is EA with 6.9B. Bandai Namco made 7.3B but a big chunk of their revenue isn’t gaming.
I can’t find upto date values for Epic Games (private company) but I would imagine they are next.
I imagine Take two would be up there
Surprisingly not. Last time they had around 3.5b
Take Two ($3.37B) and Zynga ($2.8B) will take them up to $6.17B when the acquisition completes so they are getting there with all that mobile revenue.
Is there a list ranking by MAU? I wouldn’t be surprised if ABK is right after Tencent. ABK is the full package when it comes to those metrics, they have top performing games on console, PC, and mobile.
Not that I can find but I suspect your right.
Tencent has to be number 1 with League of Legends, Valorant, PUBG, CrossFire, Dungeon Fighter and GKart.
The nearest I can find is a wiki but I’m not sure how trustworthy it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_games_by_player_count
Once the ABK acquisition completes I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft is number 2 with Minecraft, CoD, Candy Crush and the Blizzard properties.
There are quite a few lists for mobile publishers which seems to vary substantially each year.
His opinion may sound uhmmm…a bit “extreme” I would say? but ultimately says how ridiculous it would be for the FTC to challenge the MS-ABK deal (he thinks it will be another massive defeat for the FTC like AT&T-Warner merger was for the FTC of trump era)
Interesting parts:
Only the 1982 AT&T breakup produced a clear payoff for the public, dismantling a long-distance monopoly fostered by public policy. The yearslong government pursuit of Microsoft and, before that, IBM cost millions and famously ended in whimpers. This column once amused itself with federal lawsuits alleging monopolization by “superpremium” ice cream makers or office-supply stores. All had their defenders but none were so tasteless as to claim the American people would notice any benefit from these cases.
A distinctly new era of ridiculousness, though, may have been inaugurated with the Trump administration’s failed case to break up the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, a meritless lawsuit launched (and disposed of by the courts) for political reasons that only began with then-President Trump’s animus for CNN (a Time Warner cable channel).
Is Lina Khan, the Biden administration’s Federal Trade Commission chief, about to commit a similar folly over Microsoft’s videogame deal?
But though the Activision deal qualifies as big and Microsoft qualifies as tech, a case would hardly fit the bill in any other way. In desperation, advocates of a lawsuit point to Microsoft’s incentive to make certain games exclusively for its own Xbox platform. But even so, Microsoft would have every incentive also to make games for rival platforms and the world’s six billion-plus smartphones. How is this even a fit concern for the coercive powers of the state?
In the busybody work of the postwar regulatory state, trustbusting has steadily declined into one of the most consistently unproductive activities of the U.S. government. If it didn’t hit rock bottom with the Trump administration’s embarrassing lawsuit to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger, it may do so with a Biden administration lawsuit to stop Microsoft from acquiring Activision.
Of all the things to worry about, the maker of Xbox buying a video game maker should be at the bottom of the list. How about we focus on important matters, like being able to produce our own medicine and depend on China and India to make them for us? How about dealing with the inflation that is crippling middle and working class families? How about a forever low federal funds rate that destroys savers/pensioners so that Wall Street can make inflated profits? How about ending the war against of fossil fuels, which produce not only many of the thing we need, plastic, fertilizer, but also good union jobs? But no, instead we will focus on video games.
What do you think?
Totally agree the FTC would simply end up a with a black eye that is sure to on devastate them in the long run. There is nothing that i see stopping this deal. There is no case here and more so this is entertainment not a basic necessity for life or socializing. If there is anything to look at it will be the care of workers which doesn’t fall under FTC jurisdiction. I have to say though with the FTC scrutiny going on I get the feeling Xbox is knowingly laying low which could affect their showing as I doubt they want to stand out too much.
I wonder, if there was a hypothetical choice and MS has to only acquire ONE company out of ABK, either Activision, Blizzard, or King, which will you choose
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Blizzard. Mainly because of Diablo IV but they could have some other stuff that interests me. I had my fill of COD last generation so Activision doesn’t really do much for me. And King, I will be shocked if anyone votes for them. lol
It’s actually really like a candy crush game for box that charges up front.
Blizzard is too PC focused right now for me to care much about them and mobile games dont interest me in the slightest
While CoD peaked for me over a decade ago with MW2 it’s still very nice to have on GP and assuming some of those teams got back to making something other than just CoD i.e. Spyro, Crash, Tony Hawk then Activision is an easy choice for me
I’m a simple man, I want Toys for Bob to make more Crash Bandicoot games. I voted Activision.
If MS were to be forced by regulators to pick one I think they would choose eatiher activision or king, the moneu makers.
My heart will be with blizzard 1000%
Really? Because Activision only has CoD while Blizzard has multiple big franchises
It i s not CoD. It is CoD
Second only to GTA basically at this point.
Because they choose to ignore the other ones they own. There are plenty others Microsoft could do more with
And only COD is a pretty damn valuable only
CoD is definitely huge and the biggest ABK franchise but I see it from the perspective of putting all their eggs in one basket, whereas Blizzard’s games yeah might be less huge individually, but there are more of them. WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and are also building new franchises.
It is a very tough choice indeed. That’s why ABK is a huge get. COD + WoW + Candy Crush
Yeah…sadly.
COD and candy crush are just behemots on their own and while blizzard has lots of fantastic ips and teams dont think MS will pick them over the other 2.
BUT MAYBE IM WRONG!