Microsoft defends Activision buyout by claiming that Activision doesn't make any "must have" games

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Specifically, with respect to Activision Blizzard video games, there is nothing unique about the video games developed and published by Activision Blizzard that is a ‘must have’ for rival PC and console video game distributors that could give rise to a foreclosure concern,” read Microsoft’s response to the New Zealand Commerce Commission, published in a reportfrom June. That means that Microsoft don’t consider their future ownership of Activision Blizzard’s franchises such as Call Of Duty to cause issues that would prevent their rivals – among whom they identify Valve in the PC space – from competing against them.

Bear in mind that Call Of Duty alone has raked in $27 billion (£22 billion) for Activision Blizzard since the series debuted in 2003, as an earnings call revealed last year. At the time of that call, the company’s Chief Operating Officer Daniel Alegre said Call Of Duty was “one of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time”.




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Its been entertaining watching sony and microsoft downplay and overstate how big this acquisition is
 

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They shytting on Sony's mascot :mjlol:

Activism makes all the crash bandicoot games. but yeah i don't play most of their games. except for maybe the x-men games. that deadpool game was cool too.
 
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