Amazon buying Ubisoft for $3.7 billion? Pocket change. If Microsoft, one of the largest forces in gaming and one of the “big three” console-makers (even if it’s in last place) can find global approval to spend $69 billion on the one the largest games publishers in the world, then it feels like nothing is off the table after that.ĭisney buying EA for $35 billion? Sure, why not, they’re not even a gaming fixture in the first place. I’m speaking in the larger sense, about the state of acquisitions in the industry in general. When I say the “floodgates open” above, that doesn’t mean just a flood of games onto Game Pass. The exclusivity question is really only going to come up when the company starts making new games again, and we truly have no idea what’s even in the works in that realm over there, as the company has been relying on old series for years now. Blizzard’s WoW, Overwatch and Diablo 4 are not going to be removed from PlayStation with the existing playerbases there, and Blizzard is mainly just about supporting those titles right now. Activision Blizzard just doesn’t have that many active games. The exclusivity question is different here than with Bethesda. The long, long, long term ramifications of this deal mean that Call of Duty may in fact go exclusive someday, but given all Microsoft’s ten year deal offers, it’s going to be a while, if it happens at all. Yes, Call of Duty will continue to be sold on PlayStation indefinitely, but at full price and after its current Activision deal expires, with no more exclusive skins and betas and such.
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