Ryuu96 said:
Yeah they tried to sell to Meta first but Meta refused the asking price. Comcast was in talks to acquire EA recently but talks broke down. I think if someone else does get acquired, it will more likely be from someone on the outside of what companies we traditionally look at in this market. So like Amazon, Google, Apple, Comcast, Meta, etc. Can't see Tencent being allowed, don't see Sony bothering with a huge acquisition, others could merge with each other, Idk. Oh, and Saudi Arabia's PIF exists... Activision were looking to sell, they would have sold to someone eventually...You can't just block every large company from selling if they want to sell. That'd basically kill the start-up industry as well, a lot of people create companies with the express purpose of selling them later down the line when they grow them big. What you should instead look at is if the acquisition creates an unfair market advantage and is a negative for consumers, not an arbitrary threshold on every acquisition no matter what. |
I forget if it was in regards to Zenimax or Activision Blizard, probably the former, but there was an interview with Phil Spencer where he seemed to allude to some of those giant tech companies being interested in a major aquisition, and it gave me the impression that Xbox wanted to beat them to the punch partially because they are one of the few major companies that actually care about the industry.
Spencer said (paraphrazing): "We trust Sony and Nintendo (to do what's right for the industry.) But we don't trust Amazon."
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