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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by phatfish on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:52PM (#29982897)
I assumed Sony were migrating to or already using Azure at this point.

https://news.microsoft.com/2019/05/16/sony-and-microsoft-to-...

At the time Microsoft where not throwing so much money at games development an IP ownership. I wonder how Sony feel about this now.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by smileybarry on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:05PM (#29984935)
I see. But because they're maintaining datacenters for PS3/PS4 streaming I think they have the potential to go hosted, at the end of the day multiplayer servers are developer-controlled and network servers (e.g.: PSN, Xbox Live) are mostly identity services and such. (Even matchmaking isn't the network's job anymore)
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