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Sony isn't trying to buy activision ? The issue isn't sony, it's the size of Activision/Blizzard in the gaming market.
by Kapura 3y ago
Sony isn't trying to buy activision ? The issue isn't sony, it's the size of Activision/Blizzard in the gaming market.
- bllguo 3y agoexactly, a nice concise answer it shocks me every time how few people here seem to understand that scale changes things. is this not a forum frequented by SV techies?
- ayemel 3y agoNo one is having issues understanding the scale of the acquisition—a $70 billion dollar price tag kinda makes that obvious to everyone. The question that myself and others in the thread have been asking without getting a clear answer is how could this acquisition make Microsoft a monopoly in the gaming space? Even with the scale there doesn’t seem to be any legitimate path to Microsoft becoming a monopoly: video games is a $200b a year industry. Activision Blizzard’s 2022 revenue was $7.5b and combining that with Xbox’s $15b revenue still doesn’t even surpass PlayStation’s $24b. Is that a monopoly? I don’t see it.