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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
I hope it leads to MS to diversify their lineup a bit... it seems in recent years Activision has just moved everyone to being CoD or CoD support studios. Obviously that's the crown jewel of the acquisition but Activision has some other great IP that looks like it was about to be ignored forever.
Still, crazy huge news again from MS. Clearly the strategy for them going forward is to just cut the third part support from under Playstation by buying them all. Sony is going to have to respond with a major acquisition themselves at some point.
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Yeah it might be bad for industry as a whole in terms of competition between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo .
BUT I think this is actually good for Activision / Blizzard games and that company as a whole.
I think Microsoft will be less worried about every game needing to be a Billion dollar franchise, won'd be as focused on everything being about COD, and I could see Microsoft being interested in franchises like Crash, Tony Hawk, Spyro, etc seeing the light of day again as Gamepass titles.
Also wonder how long it takes for WOW to make it's way to XBox now.
If we see Sony respond I could easily see them buying Square Enix now.