Rumour: Microsoft in frame to buy Activision majority share

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Argh_College said:

Persistantthug said:

Argh_College said:

Nem said:

This sounds like the perfect solution...

Microsoft turns studios to crap, activision is a milking company with nothing but CoD... yeah i can see us getting rid of this CoD sillyness soon enough. Do it Microsoft, the market can only get better without another shallow and greedy publisher. I wonder if blizzard will go down the drain aswell or microsoft is gonna let them be... amusing times.

Next dont miss it: Blizzard doing kinect games and avatars! LOL

Lol i see someone mad.

Turn 10, Bungie, 343i, LionHead - how were this studios turned to crap if they are making great games over the years ? Also Epic and Remedy wich are partners with Microsoft.

Lol you are a joke kid.

Talking about this well i see this being done by Microsoft so they get Bungie game/ cods exclusives for next gen aswell blizzard amazing games.

Microsoft is an incompetent game studio manager.....perhaps the worst ever.

 

ENSEMBLE, ACES, DIGITAL ANVIL, FASA.....all good studios killed because of Microsoft.

Then look at RARE.....just a pitiful shadow of it's former self.

Bungie....they got smart and got the hell away from Microsoft before it was too late.

Microsoft is incompetent......no one can deny this.

Activision would do wise to run, not walk, away from any parts of a Microsoft acquisition.

 

errr. Sony also closed a shitload of studios, insomniac run away from them etc... and they still a good manager.

Try Harder.

What? Yes Sony closed three studios in the last year or so, studios that were only producing flops. Besides a lot of those employees got jobs at other Sony studios. Insomniac didn't run away from them, they simply wanted to be 3rd party just like Bungie. Insomniac is working on another Ratchet and Clank game exclusive to PS3. Troll harder bro.

You don't seem to know much about revenue and profits so let me try and explain why Microsoft is NOT going to buy AB. It's not worth 10 billion. Think about it, AB made about 1 billion in profit last fiscal year, and that's with massive COD sales and 10m WOW subs. If WOW and COD numbers stay at this level, it would take MS 10 years to break even, actually longer considering 40% of the COD market would be on PS. It's clear that COD has begun it's decline and it is not a smart idea to buy them now, plus MS would only get 60% of the profits. And, Xbox is already the preferred COD platform so I don't see it help system sales that much more. Especially when they already have a massive FPS franchise.

Besides, MS has already said no to buying AB.

http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/21417/vivendi-may-not-be-able-to-sell-activision-blizzard