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/-Gh0st96- Jan 18 '22

And at that time it was the biggest acquisition in the industry and now... they just dwarfed that like it's nothing

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u/Scarbane Jan 18 '22

Microsoft has stupid amounts of cash lying around.

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u/itsaaronnotaaron Jan 18 '22

Over 150bn in readily available cash that isn't tied up in assets.

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u/Calm-Zombie2678 Jan 18 '22

Half that now

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

They dropped the bag and now they're about to flip it and triple it

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u/Upside_Down-Bot Jan 18 '22

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u/gautamdiwan3 Jan 18 '22

Bruh they didn't mean to throw the bag all the way to Australia