Hard to imagine it not going through when you have companies like Tencent running around buying everything. There are still lots of huge companies in gaming. Doubt there's any real danger of this getting broken up.

Yeah kinds hoping that the bigger games stay on Playstation now that my mind is slowly coming out of shock.

Even if timed. Would actually not like this deal should millions of people miss out on franchises that they love.

By the time this deal has any bearing on those games, they'll be able to play them on a GP app on their TV

For me, this will be a good acquisition (for content) if...

1. Clean house of all the abusers - I think this has a likely chance of happening as Microsoft is very image aware.

2. Let all the studios who have been turned into CoD assist studios go back to making original stuff - I'm not sure how likely this is if CoD remains on the same schedule but we'll see, I think CoD should move to a every 2 years franchise Tbh.

3. Fix Blizzard.

All the "Xbox got no games/studio" crowed are to blame, take a long hard look in the mirror and be ashamed of yourself :P

Just recently Phil was like they are rethinking their relationship with Activision-Blizzard after the bad toxic news. I guess this is what that meant. Bahhaha.

Big facts

I'm conflicted. On the one hand, Acti-Blizz has some big games upcoming this gen (yearly CoD, Overatch 2, Diablo 4, and the possibility of other franchises like Crash, Tony Hawk, or Spyro being revived later in the generation) will have a big effect on both Xbox Hardware sales and Gamepass subs, even if MS only makes their games day one gamepass, no timed or full exclusivity, and timed or full exclusivity will only further increase that boost to hardware sales and gamepass subs. On the other hand, Acti-Blizz doesn't have very many games that interest me personally (mainly Overwatch 2 and the occasional CoD), and for alot less than $69b they could have bought like 2 or 3 smaller publishers, let's say for the purposes of example, Ubisoft and Sega, acquiring those 2 would have cost less than $15b combined, less than 1/4th what they are paying for Acti-Blizz, and they would have got a larger number of 1st party studios and IP out of it for less money.

The huge price tag does at least show that Satya Nadella is committed to Xbox and gaming in general, he clearly is all-in on making Xbox the biggest console and Microsoft the marketshare leader in Cloud gaming.