Still barely have a clue what the f*cking Metaverse is, even when Satya explains it

Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head of gaming, has already given informal assurances that it will not take Activision’s most popular game, Call of Duty, away from Sony’s PlayStation.

But Nadella suggested that Microsoft should not need to make any formal concessions to win regulatory approval for the deal, because it would still be too small to have an anti-competitive impact.

“At the end of the day, all the analysis here has to be done through a lens of: ‘what’s the category we’re talking about, and market structure?’” he said. “Even post this acquisition, we will be number three with sort of low-teens share [of the video games market] . . . We will be a bit player in what will be a highly fragmented place.

The Microsoft chief conceded that competition regulators were also likely to focus on the deal’s impact on the future development of the metaverse, rather than just on the current gaming market.

But he said Microsoft was committed to building open computing platforms that would make it possible for people to move freely between different companies’ virtual worlds. He added that if regulators try to impose rules to keep any metaverses open and connected, they should apply the same rules to all the tech companies.

“If that is what we want to define for every entrant, all I care about is having equal rules of the road for all participants,” he said. “So if that . . . comes through legislation or through regulation or regulatory enforcement, whatever form, we will be very open to it and engaging.”

Microsoft chief hails $75bn Activision deal as grand step into metaverse | Financial Times

Best leader that Xbox has ever had and will go down as one of the best in the entire industry if he manages to turn Activision-Blizzard around from an IP and developer perspective.

Though I would already say he's one of the GOATs.

If I was MS, I would give Playstation CoD 2022, CoD 2023, and CoD Warzone 2 to honor the existing contracts. After that, I would keep Warzone 2 (and eventually Warzone 3) on Playstation, but all standard Treyarch, Infinity Ward, and Sledgehammer CoD games after 2023 would be at least timed console exclusive to Xbox Series in order to drive hardware sales. Big mistake imo if they decide to leave the full series on Playstation.

As for other Activision/Blizzard series, I would allow Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 on Playstation and Playstation+Switch respectively since they were already announced for those, but all future Diablo and Overwatch games after those would be exclusive to Xbox and PS, as would any other future Blizzard games like Starcraft 3. Same goes for any future Activision stuff like new Spyro, Crash, Guitar Hero, Prototype, Tony Hawks, etc games, I would make those exclusive to Xbox and PC.

The thing I’m most excited about the ActiBlizz acquisition is the potential of new AAA IP. I’m most interested in what Raven and Sledgehammer could do if taken of COD both studios are big in size and the IW engine is pretty good and scalable as proven with Warzone.

I feel that microsoft/xbox thrives with sony being a strong competitor instead of a subsidiary of apple/amazon/google