zarx said:
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But I thought that Activision Blizzard was in a strong position so that investors had strong reason to buy it?
Personally, I think the smartest move would be to sell off IP and studios individually (in some cases, selling them as a unit - Modern Warfare can go with Infinity Ward, for instance). They already shut down most of the less valuable studios, so the ones that remain should be worth quite a bit. MS bought Rare for $375 million - I'd expect that both Treyarch and Infinity Ward would be significantly more valuable than that. EA bought Bioware and Pandemic together for $775 million.
I honestly just can't see investors paying even $8 billion for Activision.
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They do but it's still a lot of money not many companies can afford it $8 billion is a hell of a lot of money and the economy is still in a bad place and credit is not easy to get especially in the reigon of $8 billion, and many of the companies that can afford it aren't interested in spending the money, MS was never going to buy them as Acti-Blizz would lose most of their value instantly.
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The Blizzard side could possibly gain value from a Microsoft purchase, as Microsoft would doubtlessly force them to offer their products at least on the 360/Durango, which is one console more than they currently offer products on, but would not preclude them from continuing to work on PC. Activision would be the kicker, but really, isn't Call of Duty the only real franchise they have left? Possibly Spyro, but that would remain with Vivendi...
