Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision's Call of Duty on PlayStation
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Microsoft and Sony have signed an agreement to keep Activision's best-selling Call of Duty series available on PlayStation, after the conclusion of the deal.

Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation::Microsoft and Sony have signed an agreement to keep Activision’s best-selling Call of Duty series available on PlayStation, after the conclusion of the deal.

    • Doherz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      It does and that’s the real issue.

      MS has the power, reach and financial means to completely steamroll the market by underpricing games pass to kill any competition. Then once they’ve done that they can set prices, control labour and production to reduce costs too and monopolise the market to their shareholders cold dead money grubbing hearts content.

      To put the scale of the issue in perspective.

      Microsoft has a market cap of 2.5 Trillion dollars. Or 2500 billion.

      Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, Valve, EA, Take Two and Ubisoft combined don’t even reach 700 billion. We take Tencent out of the equation and it’s only 300 billion.

      So we’re talking 4x that of all their combined global competition. If we only look at “western” companies its basically 8.5x.

      But getting rid of Bobby Kotick will make gaming better /s

      • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Indeed. At first, I cheered for them because I wanted a better Blizzard and saw it as an opportunity to get rid of Kotick exactly as you say. But the more it drags on and the more I read/hear about context… the more I wish it fell through.