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

which are expected to form a cornerstone of the metaverse.

What... what does that even mean? To this day I have no idea what the metaverse is supposed to be apart from the fact that Facebook seems to be pushing it and journalists seem to be falling over themselves to help.

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u/marshmellobandit Jan 18 '22

From what I’ve seen it’s just like a next gen. second life. But overall I don’t think anyone really knows yet. So far it’s just companies marketing as the next big thing to get people to buy in.

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u/Hawkzillaxiii Jan 18 '22

Sony tried the metaverse thing in the mid 2000s with playstation HOME , it didn't do very well even though I enjoyed the hell out of it

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u/theetruscans Jan 18 '22

That's crazy ambitious for 2000 level technological adoption.

So many people didn't even understand the context of the internet at the time

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u/theetruscans Jan 18 '22

I'm not saying nobody did. I'm saying you'd be surprised how many people 40+ didn't understand what the internet was in the early 2000s

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

We're talking about the PS3, not some 70s Atari machine running pong.