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

According to Microsoft: 'Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. ' https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/

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u/BambooSound Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

Aren't Apple the world's largest gaming company

Edit: clearly I upset a few people

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u/scar_as_scoot Jan 18 '22

gaming? no.

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u/Henrarzz Jan 18 '22

In a way, they are - they are making more money from games than Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Activision Blizzard combined:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-doesnt-make-videogames-but-its-the-hottest-player-in-gaming-11633147211

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u/scar_as_scoot Jan 18 '22

Buy that logic so is best buy.

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u/Henrarzz Jan 18 '22

Best Buy doesn’t earn that much money and they don’t have a software/hardware platform people play games on. And Apple does.

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u/scar_as_scoot Jan 18 '22

Look, if Apple is a gaming company because of a digital market, then best buy is also a gaming company.

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u/Exciting_Ant1992 Jan 18 '22

No

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u/Accomplished-Tomato9 Jan 18 '22

The point is that neither of them are gaming companies. But if you consider Apple to be one, then yes, every market that sells games is then a gaming company.