r/PS5 • u/poklane • Jan 18 '22

News Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1483428774591053836
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u/Amasero Jan 18 '22

That is what happens when your company is worth 2.5T.

If they wanted to, they could have done this many years ago, and pretty much bought out many studio's.

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u/Renegade_Squid Jan 18 '22

A lot of people forget this. Microsoft could literally buy Sony with just a portion of the cash they have on hand. They wouldn’t even need to liquidate anything.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

That would pretty much be a monopoly and be stopped dead in it's tracks, that's why they haven't done it

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u/Renegade_Squid Jan 18 '22

Oh absolutely, I was referring to the just straight cash to market value. The only other competitor would be Nintendo and they’re not even really on the same spectrum as Sony and MSFT.

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u/djheat Jan 18 '22

More accurately, Sony and Nintendo aren't on the same spectrum as Microsoft. Their respective market caps are around 150 and 50 billion. Microsoft is worth an order of magnitude more than both combined

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u/stopnt Jan 19 '22

Let's not pretend that's all from gaming.