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Microsoft to Acquire Game Studio Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion
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I say Apple should:
Rockstar for the catalog & the ability to have GTA6 be a macOS exclusive for three months to a year...
- Buy Unity
- Buy Rockstar
Rockstar for the catalog & the ability to have GTA6 be a macOS exclusive for three months to a year...
Re-read my post, before Christmas, *PC* sales of JP2 where disappointing, which lead to a significant stock value loss. Looks like FD had a good Christmas. Thanks for posting that.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 sales lower than expected and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey under-performed
Jurassic World Evolution 2 sales aren't great and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey under-performed, developer Frontier has said.
www.eurogamer.net
At the cost of losing contents without any way to preserve it, while making cheating harder to detect and remove. As for piracy… tbh, if contents are so worthless that preserving is no longer possible smh, who cares about pirating them? Oh wait, there’s no way to pirate because local game files no longer exist.
Then one has to wonder why we have powerful hardware when company tries so hard to let us run AAA with 8K on a Pentium 4. Also, who’s going to be the loser then?
Microsoft is pushing game pass for PC pretty hard so I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
They are the largest because they put out all the MS suite apps that all require subscriptions. If your hope is paying monthly to play Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV then yes the future is very bright.
Well Switch doesn’t really compete with Xbox or PlayStation the same way. They aren’t focused on 4K gaming. Switch competes with the handheld aspect and the great first party titles. Apple could do something similar. They don’t need to compete at the AAA level like some people on this site want. And I’m personally fed up with AAA industry. Especially with the last few big releases and all the latest NFT talk. They have no passion anymore. Just release the game which doesn’t work and is a buggy mess just for profits and micro transactions and now NFTs. Indies is where it is and has been for a while now.
yes, instead of sinking money into the ridiculousness that is AppleTV (not the puck, their stupid streaming service), a Magical Car, and a $3k set of goggles.
You can buy games outright on xbox/pc. You don’t need to have a game pass subscription. But if you like the content on game pass then it’s worth doing the subscription.
Agree with you there, the quantity of good games on Apple Arcade is lacking. But if Apple had to beef up on in-house quality studios, they'd likely purchase much smaller, indie studios as Apple historically stays away from blockbuster acquisitions, and Nintendo would still be their benchmark. That said, I think Apple is most likely to keep purchasing timed exclusives or pay for bigger budget games the way they do for TV shows and movies today on Apple TV. They don't need the overhead of carrying multiple games/TV studios when they're making tons of money off content in-app purchases. Apple's head is in more mainstream tech that can do more than just play games. Their rumored AR/VR glasses has the potential to be their next iPhone, and it will still play games.
But will games on other platforms have all the same functionality as the Windows/Xbox versions, or will Microsoft do the same crippleware like Office for Mac?
There's an interesting debate to be had there... I'm sure Tim & Co have a market matrix with everything from cars to AR/VR to white goods and bath accessories... with where Apple needs to be with each in it's eco-system and what the SWATs are... gaming is the one where I think it can be successfully argue either way (though I think they'd be well served by having a strong presence in it... they've basically said it's important to the eco-system via Apple Arcade... perhaps for their target market light/casual gaming suffices vs. AAA titles).
COD is likely a significant portion of that 68B sorry the people spoke and they love spending money on cosmetics. This is where things are heading not the other way around. People like you and I are against it but there are plenty that are opening their wallets and ruining everything that gaming used to be.
Re-read my post, before Christmas, *PC* sales of JP2 where disappointing, which lead to a significant stock value loss. Looks like FD had a good Christmas. Thanks for posting that.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 sales lower than expected and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey under-performed
Jurassic World Evolution 2 sales aren't great and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey under-performed, developer Frontier has said.
Eurogamer is a garbage website. They posted that two weeks after the release date. Frontier stuff does not sell the way, BF games do. Their players are more intelligent, and they build a userbase over time.
I disagree about the lack of passion. Games like Days Done, Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank, SpiderMan (and Miles Morales), Last of Us all show there is still passion in the AAA space.
Someone posted that Microsoft will continue to port Blizzard games to Mac. My point was sure if they make a gamepass for MacOS then yes. They aren't going to invest the money for a competitor platform unless its a subscription. A huge chunk of what they put out for MacOS is all tied to O365 and Azure subscriptions.
No AAA studios left unless this acquisition is blocked by the Justice Department.
Some of those aren’t even available on Windows PCs. Yet Apple gets all the hate.
With this deal, Microsoft will own King, makers of Candy Crush. So they get one of the biggest mobile franchises in this deal too.