Microsoft Could Straight Up Buy Sony, By the Way

[The Mad Titan]

Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion. If you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, you can read all about it. If you don’t, we’ll sum it up for you: a large chunk of capital is getting combined with an even larger chunk of capital. Blah blah blah. Happens all the time. More and more. But what does this deal mean for us, the gamers? It means we won’t have to talk about the Console War for much longer.



We can argue about the PS5 and Xbox Series X, but let’s not kid ourselves about Microsoft and Sony. Microsoft has a market cap over $2 trillion. Sony’s is about $150 billion. For years now, Microsoft has maintained over $100 billion cash on hand. They can write a $70 billion check for their gaming division like it’s nothing. At worst, maybe Phil Spencer feels bad about buying Activision Blizzard like when you realize you’re spending a little too much on coffee. By contrast, gaming is Sony’s largest segment. Sony’s bread and butter is Microsoft’s trip to Starbucks.

If Microsoft can buy a $70 billion gaming company, why can’t they buy a $150 billion one? Who would stop Microsoft from buying Sony? Congress? Joe Biden? Microsoft could buy Sony and add the PS5 to Game Pass. Xbox players could finally have the experience of swinging around as Spider-Man until they get bored with it. PS5 stans could finally find a new thing to be mad about all the time. Kevin Feige could argue with Bill Gates over the new Spider-Man 12 trailer reveals.

That won’t happen, of course. Microsoft doesn’t want Sony. But the point is, the Console War is a scuffle for a company the size of Microsoft. In the long term, capital pulls like gravity. The bigger piece swallows the smaller one. Maybe it buys the smaller one, maybe it uses its capital to grind the other one down through monopolistic practices. Either way, it will happen. Capital accumulates. It’s the only thing it knows how to do.

The Console War is starting to look like iPhone vs. BlackBerry. It was barely a decade ago that BlackBerry was still the dominant player. It had a bigger market share than the iPhone in 2010. Tech nerds argued about the hardware, just like gamers argue about consoles. I need a physical keyboard, because I do real work. But they were missing the forest for the trees: Apple was already worth nearly four times BlackBerry’s parent company, Research in Motion. If the tech nerds had looked up from the two phones, they might have realized the fight was already over.

Ten years later, Apple is the first company to hit a $3 trillion market cap. BlackBerry ended all support for its phones earlier this month, and its brand name gets passed around between sketchy phone companies every once in a while. But it’s not about the phones, is it? And it’s not about the consoles. Microsoft vs. Sony? Give it ten years.

Microsoft Could Straight Up Buy Sony, By the Way

 

[spliz]

People DO KNOW that a company would have to want to sell a company to be able to be bought.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

People DO KNOW that a company would have to want to sell a company to be able to be bought.

fukk that….. everyone has a price

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

They can't create talent so buy it all up.

 

[Why-Fi]

thats too much. that would put ms into a whole bunch of other shyt they have no business being in...aint no way

 

[breakfuss]

you actually made a thread. I had a Blackberry btw . Held on to the very end.

People DO KNOW that a company would have to want to sell a company to be able to be bought.

Well, no, hostile takeovers are a thing. But I think the point of the article, which reads like parody, is to illustrate the enormity of Microsoft. This is less a "war" and more a battle of attrition. Reminds me of:

 

[ItWasWritten]

Another nikka who bought a Ps5 rooting against his own investment

Arcadium is weirdo central no where else on the internet do you see this bizarre behavior

 

[Master Teacher]

market cap only refers to the value of the shares of stock based on the amount of shares

Sony could just issue more shares to increase their market cap, it doesn't mean they can be brought, whoeve wrote that article is an idiot lmao

Sony Group which is on the stock market is A HOLDING COMPANY, it doesn't do anything


Sony is a multinational conglomerate, it's made up for many companies, manufacturing, music, movies

At this point its a too big to fail type of company

Microsoft doesn't make anything, or create any new technologies

I mean all the cameras in iphones are made by sony

 

[TripleAgent]

They can't create talent so buy it all up.

 

[Grand Conde]

Isn't Hard Drive satire?

 

[Dwolf]

This nikka must be high

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Another nikka who bought a Ps5 rooting against his own investment

Arcadium is weirdo central no where else on the internet do you see this bizarre behavior

They run out and buy a console before everyone else just to spend all day shytting on it.

 

[Brer Dog]

Couldn't happen. It wouldn't even get past antitrust laws.

 

[Diondon]

Post the story about the time they tried to buy Nintendo.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I been telling and telling y'all. Microsoft to acquire Sony