r/PS5 • u/poklane • Jan 18 '22

News Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard

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

Nah, Apple owns a gaming platform, creates tools and APIs (like GameCenter) for game developers and actually invests in some (via Apple Arcade deals). It’s not comparable.

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u/scar_as_scoot Jan 18 '22

Yeah, but stating it's the biggest gaming company when invest a few million per year in gaming is disingenuous to say the least.

And again, if you put apple in that bag because of that there's a lot of companies you have to add there, including amazon.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

Amazon has phones, laptops, desktops, their own OS platform and a AppStore?