@peter42O is pretty consistent in approaching things based on his own preference and how it benefits him personally.
Aside from owning a PS5, Iâm starting to think youâre me.
I can appreciate the business sense it makes and still wish theyâd never done the deal. Acquiring AB has very, very few benefits to me personally. Unless you start thinking all 4D tangentially, and how itâll help Xbox grow, and thereby itâll help me in the long run. But whatever to that. Iâd rather see acquisitions that benefit me more or less immediately.
Just a heads-up, I wonât be replying to any replies about this in this thread, as itâs off topic. If you want to engage on this topic further, @ me in the Activision-Blizzard thread.
Activision is worth so much more to Microsoft than any of those other companies.
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I agree . It make alot of sense from the business side of things but Iâve not played a single Activision game in the last 5 years . Even Asobo acquisition would have made me much happier compared to Activision .
Take two would be an interesting response to Activision, but I wonder if even Sony would make Rockstar games exclusive. A hugely expensive development cycle with a GaaS on the side likely to sell absurdly huge numbers and bring in massive regular income. Would it be worth cutting off a chunk of that to benefit more from the rest of it, or would Sony treat it like Destiny and just reap the benefits. Hell, if the potential of losing a megafranchise to exclusivity comes up I wonder of that is when Microsoft uses Call of Duty for leverage. Mutually assured destruction with mega franchisesm
Still, with all the other studios, the perks they can give themselves over GTA (advertising, PS+ bonuses) and the assurance that no other company can step in and take GTA it would be a great move. I donât see it from Sony though, it is a lot of money for a company their scale.
Still though, I do think the whole Miller/Grubb thing is accurate and they do indeed have a âvery bigâ acquisition coming. I half think Square Enix if a publisher, or maybe CDPR if weâre talking a studio.
In general and business wise, I wouldnât pass Activision up either. Itâs a once in a lifetime (or maybe twice since you could say Bethesda was first, lol) opportunity so in general, I understand the move and why it was done.
For me personally, I donât give two shits about anything Activision has outside of Diablo IV. I have been done with COD for 3 years and tried playing Cold War. Couldnât make it past 20 minutes into the campaign. Shit is done for me. All the rest is literally of no interest and never was.
If the deal goes through which I do believe that it will, then great, awesome. Hoping Phil resurrects some older IPâs like True Crime which I loved Sleeping Dogs and they can easily do a sequel to that since Square shutdown United Front a decade ago or whenever it was.
But if the deal falls through, I wonât shed a single tear and if anything, Iâll actually be happy because I still believe they can go up to 3 AAA publishers so if you subtract Activision, thereâs 2 chances of them getting a company that I actually do give a shit about as opposed to in my eyes, being one more chance and in all honesty, I donât see Microsoft acquiring another AAA publisher that I actually want them to acquire.
To make it simple, I want Microsoft to acquire publishers and development studios that actually are creating/developing games that are of interest to me. Which I would think this is applies to everyone because if you could get what you want, why wouldnât you?
Take away Activision, give me Ubisoft and WB Games with all of DC and im the happiest fucking gamer you would ever meet or in this case, converse with on Xbox Era.
Hahaha. Yes I am. And I will never ever change.
Hahahahaha. Iâll take that as one hell of a compliment. Thank you. 
I know. No argument or disagreement here. But for ME PERSONALLY, Activision isnât worth $5 and a bag of chips.
Asobo I like. Plague Tale was awesome and Requiem is day one for me. Itâs funny. Asoboâs 3 recent/upcoming games, Innocence, Flight Sim and Requiem. 2 of the 3 are for me. Activision has a shit ton of studios, IPâs and I have ONE single game from them. Yeah, not a difficult or tough decision for me as a gamer and fan.
If I was a Microsoft executive, then it would be the opposite as my career would obviously take priority. But as a gamer/fan, oh man. Activision doesnât do anything for me.
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To suggest that Bungie is anywhere near the worth that Ubisoft is (from an output and/or quality standpoint)⌠well thatâs a take, and definitely not a well constructed argument. MS let Bungie go because they didnât need anything Bungie puts out, certainly not what is essentially an independent subsidiary; Sony did, especially when it comes to Live Service expertise. Itâs that simple. MS wasnât outbid, and theyâre not kicking themselves for letting them âget awayâ.
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that was my point .
I mean quality is subjective (I would take destiny over halo anyday of the week) but they are far from the same thing, I do agree. Bungie and Ubisoft are far from the same thing
Quality of the acquisition is not subjective; Iâm talking about ROI, income, sales metrics, etc.
I leave subjectivity out of these discussions as much as possible.
Oh I thought you meant quality of their games, by bad
I was promised a big Sony aquisition from a couple of insiders.
When?
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Well, it can bee now, it can be tomorrow, it can be next week, it can be next month, somewhere in the future. We have just to wait.
In general unless acquisition happens the next or the same day, they donât leak.
Well now thereâs a paradoxâŚ.
On a more serious note, we know Sony is going to be acquiring inorganically because Jim Ryan said as much over the last several weeks.
they will probably grab the other studios partnering with them which are making live service games tbh
They probably will, but I do get the impression the Miller/Grubb âBig acquisitionâ thing is real and likely to occur before any of them get purchased by the way they talked about it.
The only big acquisition I could see is KADOKAWA but that is just me
Between now and the heat death of the universe.
And remember, when the next acquisition happens, you heard it straight from ME first!
Jeff Grubb never said he heard from his own sources directly - it was more second hand accounts (i.e. rumours circulating).
millerâŚdo you mean joe miller cos from what I have heard he is a had