Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for 69 billion $

[jenpol]

EpicRandy said:

jenpol said:

Those games would have come to Xbox and It would have cost less than 1 billion to get those games on GP. 

The move is to remove IP from the competition. (and push on the mobile market)

Well if we apply the same logic than we can only conclude that the deal wasn't to remove IP from the competition as exclusivity deal would also have cost only a small fraction of the acquisition.

Take market share (by removing IP from the competition). Financial don't make sense otherwise. Exclusivity deal cost more because you need to pay for the lost of sales on the competing platform + pay for the gamepass loss of revenues (for the game company).