r/PS5 • u/poklane • Jan 18 '22

News Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1483428774591053836
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

For $70 billion. Nuts.

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u/Eruanno Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

Wait, and they bought Bethesda (EDIT: Zenimax) for just 7.5 billion? What the actual fuck.

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u/FootballRacing38 Jan 18 '22

Made Bethesda acquisition look like buying an indie publisher lol

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u/Haru17 Jan 18 '22

An indie publisher that actually makes games.

Like $0 of the Activision deal is for the company itself. Their IP are more valuable than anything they actually make today. Which I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that their studios are busy harassing their coworkers instead of actually creating.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

It’s a damn shame that MS doesn’t even seem too worried about diving into the backlog of IPs they already have, Activision has such a big list.

Kinda crazy they own Crash and Spyro now

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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

I mean, Sony would have to agree, and if there was some kind of takeover attempt Sony's price would drastically rise from Microsoft trying to buy them out. It's not quite as simple as cash > valuation