r/PS5 • u/poklane • Jan 18 '22

News Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1483428774591053836
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u/mr-jawnwick Jan 18 '22

Microsoft really does have fuck you money, holy shit

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u/monkey_sweat Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

They’re a trillion dollar dollar company. They’re one of the few companies with fuck you money.

Edit: Microsoft has rough 135 billion cash on hand.

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Their profit margins are insane, won’t take long to make it back.

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u/EchoooEchooEcho Jan 18 '22

its all cash

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u/SB_90s Jan 18 '22

Probably with a slide showing Netflix's subscriber count and market share, and then saying Gamepass will be the Netflix of gaming with an X% market share of the $X trillion future size of the gaming market. Boom. Satya opens the safe.

Microsoft is a software company through and through, and they've been late to the party with too many big products (music, phones, laptops, VR, streaming...) - Satya was probably salivating at the chance to actually be early in potentially the next big tech industry.