Report: Vivendi still looking to sale Activision Blizzard; Sony not interested, Microsoft haggling price

[happydolphin]

kumagawa said:

happydolphin said:
I love mention of Sony and Microsoft, as if they're the only ones able to buy them...

Not just Nintendo, but many other companies out there could buy them (Google, Apple, ubisoft, who knows). It's just weird the fanboyism in this industry's journalism.

 

Ubisoft is worth less than  $1 billion total, while Nintendo has only $5 billion cash in the bank (with Nintendo having lost money for the last 5 consecutive quarters their not going to want to get into the amount of debt necessary to buy a 60 % stake in Activision).  Sony on the other hand has $8 billion in the bank while Microsoft has even more.  The simple fact is Activiosion Blizzard has the 3rd highest market cap of any direct gaming company with only Microsoft and Nintendo higher but of all existing companies in gaming only Sony or Microsoft can afford Vivendi's 60% of Activision.

Yes there are companies with the money out there but why would they want it?

I don't know, you tell me.