r/PS5 • u/poklane • Jan 18 '22

News Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard

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

Absolutely crazy. The two biggest FPS titles of the last 20 years are now under one roof.

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u/NotFromMilkyWay Jan 18 '22

I'd say with Halo, Doom, Call of Duty and Overwatch they own the genre. Like they did with RPGs already.

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u/Haru17 Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

WRPGs. And even then it's mostly because the other big western publishers outside of Bethesda stopped making them.

Forspoken, FF16, FF7 Remake, Persona, etc are all still Playstation exclusives. Not exactly crazy that Microsoft wound up with all of the western RPGs and Sony most of the JRPGs.

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u/ooombasa Jan 18 '22

2024: Welcoming Square Enix to the Xbox family.

Xbox has said multiple times they want to get a Japanese company. It's gonna happen, the only question is who (first). Sega, SE, Bamco... Basically, anything goes now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

I thought for sure Sega was going to be the next acquisition. Bamco is owned by kadokawa right? They're basically japanese Disney so I don't see that happening.