Yeah, they get 30% of all the money made from their respective app stores which trends to be pure profit. So revenue for mobile games was $93.2 Billion which is 52% of total gaming revenue, since they get a 30% cut from that apple and google together made roughly $27.96B in pure profit (their might be different app stores on mobile changing these calculations, I am not sure, but most will be from Iphone and Andriod. For reference this means from mobile games alone apple and google together make up 15.50748752079867% of gaming revenue basically in pure profit in 2021 alone for doing nothing but existing
I think people are misunderstanding what I mean by “total domination” here.
The last thing I want is Microsoft Gaming to be the Disney of games when it comes to corporate practices (just look how much they’ve screwed movie theaters over the years, not to mention their own clients/actors) and persuading the masses that they’re 100% always in the right when at times they’re a literal wolf in sheep’s clothing.
At some point, the acquisitions have to slow down (at least in scale), but at times the online communities (not just here), act like Microsoft/Sony should just buy everything.
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I am guessing I got it right with you not wanting 1 company to have too much power then lol (Also am I alone in think the disney to big shit is way over played. IDK, I might be alone here but I don’t think disney is too big, I think they shouldn’t grow anymore but where they are not it doesn’t feel stupid. IDK, I know its a hot take)
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Absolutely I’d rather have one company not having too much power.
I think Disney started really getting bad when they essentially bullied theaters into taking less of a cut on ticket sales when Force Awakens was releasing. Thus it became the norm eventually. (And I feel like it wasn’t the last time this happened)
yeah I get that. While MS is currently the “good guys” in gaming they would easily become more anti consumer when it benefits them if they became too powerful (I mean look at the shit they tried to pull with the xbox one, sure in ways it was ahead of its time but it wasn’t pro consumer for the time even arguably now)
I was about to say threaters feel like a relic from the past but I just looked it up and realised it released in 2015 when they were fine (good thing I did lol). I get why Disney did it (they are a company) but yeah, That is kind of scummy but I don’t believe it affects us so as mean as this might sound, I don’t really care granted it is bullying other companies non the less which isn’t good and could affect us in the future e.g. tickets raising in price or food/drinks costing more and being pushed more or them cracking down on not allowing outside food
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I’m with you 100%. It’s just worth pointing out that a Disney situation is much harder to materialize in the gaming industry.
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And I definitely agree with you that the scenario is much harder to pull off in gaming, but I could see some of the similar motions going through over time it thinks get dire enough.
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We are long time till that time so until then Microsoft should buy more publishers for more content in Game Pass.
If Square Enix was not the mess (moneyhatted FF, half-owned liceses, NFT etc.) they would be the best option for Microsoft there - big recurring revenue game (FF14), big IPs and they produce a lot of content every year.
yeah since anyone can make a mega successful game (anyone can doesn’t mean everyone will) due to the lack of barrier to entry, along side the fact their are 3 different sectors in the industry (mobile, console and PC (side not, I think console will be replaced with cloud come a decade or 2)) and stuff like micro transactions and the free to play model and other facts along side that makes it hard to see an exact copy or even similar situation from happening. The worry is still justified though because even if it won’t be the same situation MS could still create a different version of it (I am refering to streaming, its the way a parallel making the most sense which I think is at least a decade out because the internet still needs to evolve more for that to work well)
from a business side, obvious. As I have said I think MS will buy at least 3 more publishers (mid to big sized) and I have said I think they will approaching Nintendo again, I think I am pretty deep into the side saying they are far from done and are truely going all in BUT I think his worry has a fair standing and is complete valid
I doubt about 3. The thing is that there are not many publishers that fit Game Pass and what Microsoft is doing. We need big exclusive IPs, recurring revenue and solid roadmaps.
I was more trying to say I am on the deep end of think MS is far from done lol
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Now look what you’ve done… 
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Microsoft does like to over correct.
- No single player games? Bought Zenimax
- No “big” games not ForzaGearsHalo? Bought Call of Duty and Warcraft
- No Japanese games? …
Hopefully “No thirdperson n-a-r-r-a-t-i-v-e games” results in them buying GTA and Red Dead
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continue a discussion on the possibile ramifications on MS having too much power in the industry and why that isn’t necessarily isnt a good thing/just a good thing for MS to keep expanding in the long term for us…IDK, feels like an intresting topic. I am not trying to be rude here BTW but I don’t think any issues that came from that comment. I would of had my opinion regardless (Same with other people) while we know nothing factual because we are not higher ups of MS or Nintendo or other revilvent parties
It was a joke… take a breath.
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Oh, sorry, sometimes its hard to tell over text lol. My bad
I have come the conclusion that Square Enix acquisition won’t happen. Not from Sony at least.
The reason is the fact Square Enix openly stated their interest in looking investments from various parties. In there was a pending acquisition (or real talks) at this moment, they would not need to do that.
Things will only get wild after the abk deal
MS is about to do the biggest transcation in the industry
This will give them process expertise like no other
There is a high chance that MS will become more aggressive after this deal
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Agreed for the short-term, they’re throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks in terms of remaining a self-controlled publisher.
SE: “We need some quick cash…Quick, let’s offload some of our most consistent performers that we haven’t known how to manage since day one! NFTs? That sounds like a great way to make money, let’s do it!”
Now they’ve realized that neither move was the boon they thought it was, especially with the backlash the latter’s faced (deservedly), so they’re trying to bring in as many investors as possible to avoid a sale.
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I wonder if those 2 year moneyhats (and PS5 only moneyhats) were also the way to prolong their existence. And another reason why Sony is not buying Square Enix, because you would not need to go to such lengths.