To be fair… competition wasn’t tight between Sony and Xbox for almost a decade, and Xbox being in third gave us the best version of Xbox in its history. More so, I find it a wee bit karmic to see Xbox counter the continued moneyhatting by Sony with a suite of maneuvers which Sony essentially performed when entering the market, to the point of forcing one of its competitors out of the hardware business. The only questions at this point are: is Xbox done for the foreseeable future and what is Sony’s next acquisition target going to be?
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If call of duty goes Xbox exclusive and Xbox Game Pass becomes a massive success I think we’ll see the slow death of the PlayStation console as we know it, and in its place PS Studios becomes a 3rd party “premium” subscription service for Amazon Luna and Xbox Game Pass.
I don’t know for sure, all I got are uneducated guesses on what could happen in 15 years.
However I will say this, Jim Ryan definitely smashed his Herman Miller chair yesterday.
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That’s not gonna happen, it’s thanks to this deal things will be competitive like in 360 era.
If Call of Duty remains on PlayStation consoles but it’s advertised as an Xbox game sure.
If call of duty becomes Xbox console exclusive well….idk what the future would be for PlayStation. Wouldn’t be death the day it’s announced but I could totally see bad things happening unless PlayStation acts fast and makes their own COD competition with the same mass market appeal.
I don’t think square enix acquisition would save PlayStation consoles.
I also don’t think PlayStation consoles would survive just off PS studios alone.
Sure, isn’t that what this thread is for ? 
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I can only speak for myself, but I wouldn’t get a PlayStation if that happens, wouldn’t have the slightest interest in doing so.
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It’s impossible to do for anyone from scratch, otherwise there wouldn’t be franchises and IPs, it’s really really rare to create IPs that big.
That’s what absolutely crazy about this acquisition, only a company the size of Microsoft could’ve done it. When Phil Spencer says he views Amazon and Google as his main competitors he wasn’t lying. Less so the two companies but more so the size of a tech company that could potentially compete with them.
Next acquisition? 
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Same one im making
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Then MS could have brought both at the same time.
I think we can close the thread after Xbox acquires Sega and Capcom, we already have too much (unless it’s to avoid Facebook buying a company that’s willing to sell)
I hope for paradox or sega
MS are no longer about annualized IP. They give each franchise the time these days.
The same will be for COD id say
As much as RAD didn’t make too many games that interested me, I’m still sad to see them go to Facebook. Would’ve hoped for them to at least have gone to Sony and continue The Order.
Ah well.
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They have about 70bn more to spend
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We agree. But it doesn’t mean that CoD studios like Sledgehammer and Treyarch won’t be on CoD anymore. We simply can’t see that happening.
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I honestly think this deal makes a valve move less likely. As they get battle.net launcher with the activision deal which you could add gamepass too. But more importantly, I don’t think they are done acquiring studios and I don’t think they’d want to takeover such a major storefront because it looks bad and throws a flag to say we are not only trying to get all these major studios and publishers. But we are also trying to buy all the storefronts.
It looks better to have these storefronts you don’t own to sell your games through so you can say we don’t own everything. we still need our partners to help facilitate the sale of our games.
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Could they make something besides COD if they wanted? Sure. Is it likely? Probably not.
Who knows though? Maybe they’ve been sitting on some game ideas they never bothered to pitch because they knew it wouldn’t get greenlit.