Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard in $68.7 bln deal

ABizzel110h ago

I disagree. Your first statement might ring true, but the reality is if they are successful in their attempts to keep buying up all these publishers and making their content exclusive to their platform / service, then it does hurt the competition.

For example if you own a hotel, but then the Hyatt or Marriott comes and buys all the buildings around you, and market exclusives rooms, events, etc… And you have to drop price just to keep up, and it’s still not working. Eventually you’re going to struggle with your business. That’s what Microsoft is doing.

There are tens of millions of COD players, and if it’s exclusive to Xbox that’s tens of millions buying their platform or subscription service and potentially having no reason to buy a PS or Nintendo. EA could be next and that’s Fifa, Madden, etc… Take-Two, GTA, Red Dead etc… That’s a problem no matter how you spin it.

I honestly don’t think this is Microsoft against Sony type of thing. This is just Microsoft being Microsoft and looking for another consistent multi-billion dollar revenue stream, and it so happens to be gaming.

Now I do agree with you, this could blow up in their face, and fall through like the AT&T and T-Mobile merger, where T-mobile ended up leaving that denied merger along with the billions AT&T spent, and went and bought Sprint, because this is clearly a sign of trying to monopolize the industry by buying the best selling video game franchise in the industry each year.

It’s almost as Monopoly levels of bad as trying to buy Sony or Nintendo (Activision is easily top 5 monopoly moves). But we’ll see what happens.

Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard in $68.7 bln deal
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