Microsoft is acquiring Activision for 69 billion, Take Two acquired Zynga for 13 billion and just today word broke that Sony acquired Bungie for 4 billion. I'm not sure how I would have guessed 2020 would start but it wouldn't be with some of the biggest tech acquisitions.
I can't really speak for Take Two, but generally speaking I don't mind these acquisitions as I'm hopeful Microsoft would do well with Activision/Blizzard and I'm not sure there would be much of a change with Sony acquiring Bungie beyond us getting more games from them. With that, consolidating all of the main game franchises in a handful of companies isn't great and I wonder how long multi-platform gaming will last? It used to be that the majority of releases were multi-platform but it seems those days are sadly numbered.
https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/10/take-two-to-acquire-mobile-gaming-giant-zynga-for-12-7b/
https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-sony-buys-bungie
I can't really speak for Take Two, but generally speaking I don't mind these acquisitions as I'm hopeful Microsoft would do well with Activision/Blizzard and I'm not sure there would be much of a change with Sony acquiring Bungie beyond us getting more games from them. With that, consolidating all of the main game franchises in a handful of companies isn't great and I wonder how long multi-platform gaming will last? It used to be that the majority of releases were multi-platform but it seems those days are sadly numbered.
https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/10/take-two-to-acquire-mobile-gaming-giant-zynga-for-12-7b/
https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-sony-buys-bungie
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I read about this weeks or a month or so ago. I'm actually a quite optimistic about this simply because of the toxic news we've heard from Activision/Blizzard. I'm extremely confident that Microsoft will provide a much better corporate environment for employees. I think that makes this acquisition much more favorable. I think by acquiring Mojang it helped give Minecraft a huge boost, so I'm hoping to see that happen w/ our favorite Blizzard games.
Yeah at this point Iām kinda optimistic for any change with Activistion/Blizzard but I really hope they donāt start excluding PlayStation and Switch with those games. I mean Call if Duty alone is such a huge franchise, if they eventually stop releasing that for PlayStation itās a huge deep cut to their players.
It seems more and more like weāre working toward two massive game publisher conglomeratesā¦ with Nintendo over there just doing their thing