That would be hilarious. Bungie trying to get away but no matter where they go, Microsoft is knocking at their door. I think it would be cool if valve bought Activision but I don't think they are big enough to purchase them.

Gabe is rich but I don't think he is $10b rich

microsoft should buy vivendi istself and not only activision. they would get the activion part then + some important companies like a european tv station (to sell nextbox with the tv subscription in france), some music studios and mobile phone provider (to get more successful with their windows phones)^^ they wcould get a big step on the european market then to dominate america and europe

nahh, i don't believe they will purchase activision and if, they would still have to sell the games also on playstation, everything else would cost billions in revenue. but who knows...

Not at all, I think the opposite. I think it would be the doom of CoD instead. PlayStation folks will just move on, and CoD's just won't get anywhere near the same buzz. Remember, this will mean nothing on the WiiU too, or any portable. It would be a horrible move allround and not realistic if you ask me. For that kind of investment you need to recoop that cost, and with a multiplatform game cycle, they couldn't do it in a time-frame that would matter, even if CoD stays as big as it is now, which won't happen. We all know about these gaming cycles.

I kind of wish that a few companies would joint-venture it, and buy Activision Blizzard together.

I'm visualising part-ownership by Valve, Take Two, and Square Enix. It's not going to happen, but it's what I'd like to see happen. Why those three? Square Enix already publishes a number of Activision titles in Japan (notably the CoD titles). Take Two are the ones that compete with EA in terms of sports franchises, and Valve have the distribution platform. Valve have the distribution platform, and seem to have a much better developer-to-publisher relationship.

In reality, I think the best possible result is Time Warner buying them. With Warner Bros' various IPs available (including, most notably, DC universe, the Bugs Bunny crew, and Hanna Barbera), Activision could actually make some interesting new titles - they just need to fire Kotick first. Time Warner is only a small part of the video game industry at this point, and having the Activision studios available would help them to become stronger, without unbalancing the industry.

Man I can see the EU antitrust lawyers licking their chops at the thought of that...

But Kotick has been the best thing to happen to the company in terms of profit, if anything he would take over WB Interactive as well, if they didn't leave him in charge of Activision...

Also what possible reason would multiple publishers want a share in another publisher as a joint venture? So they can fund the competition? 

No, Kotick has been the best thing to happen in terms of short term profit. He has driven pretty much every franchise into the ground, and put all of Activision's eggs into the CoD basket. If Kotick had been good for Activision in the long term, Vivendi wouldn't be looking to sell Activision off, because it would be an ongoing asset. Instead, it's just at its peak value, and they expect it to decline from here, hence the decision to sell and get as much as they can out of it.

Well according to a lot of members on this forum, people do not switch gaming devices for just ONE game (MH4 being the basis of my conculsion). So they would need to aquire a lot of the PS3 exclusives as well that attract people to the PS3 in the first placel.

PS: perhaps those people really meant they would never buy a Nintendo product to play a game.

The Doom of CoD? You're kidding right? It's slowly declining now, we think. Pre-orders are slightly less than before when looking at both consoles.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (X360) added 24,809 pre-orders, up from 22,855 last week, for a total of 207,014. The game has fallen 182,000 pre-orders behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (X360) during the same week before release. The game is 20 weeks away from launch in the USA, November 13, 2012.

360 is down mostly because Halo 4, lets face it.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PS3) added 8,156 pre-orders, down from 10,232 last week, for a total of 127,744. The game has fallen 51,000 pre-orders behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3). The game is 20 weeks away from launch in the USA, November 13, 2012.

The ps3 is down just over a third, thats it.

Making it exclusive wouldn't kill it, by that logic all exclusives are already doomed.... Oh wait, I see in your sig area you have a ps3 trophy list thing and not an xbox one. Nevermind......