Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by isk517 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:24PM (#29986068)

I liked the PS4 but even I feel like Sony didn't so much win the last generation so much as Microsoft lost it. Microsoft just never recovered from just how bad the XBox One launch was and Sony managed to win by pretty much doing nothing but releasing great exclusive titles. Sony right now seems to be fully into the hubris stage they were in when they made the PS3 and I feel like they are going to slowly lose market to XBox which has immerged from the disastrous XBox One humbled and with a greater desire to cater to their audience.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by Talanes on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:11PM (#29989874)

> Microsoft just never recovered from just how bad the XBox One launch

They just completely lost me to their branding strategy from that point. If I can't keep track of which console name does what, it's going to take something really compelling to make me pay attention. I'm still not actually sure what the PS5 competitor is even called.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by isk517 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:40PM (#30017056)

The XBox branding department are big fans of The IT Crowd and completely unaware that it is a comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by skinnymuch on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:31PM (#29989165)

It’ll still be a while. Xbox still is in such a distant spot everywhere outside America. Europe and rest of Asia for sure. I’m not considering Japan in this. It’s fine that Xbox will never sell there. I think you’re right they’ll climb back. It’s just such an uphill battle.

Edit: Hah okay yeah the PS3 and hubris…does mean things could change pretty quickly and world wide (outside Japan and maybe a few other East Asian countries), Xbox could be neck and neck if not winning out again. I’d rather not have either win out. Sega was never going to survive, we don’t have another gaming console company in sight unless Steam Deck counts, so the relative parity of Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox is nice. Throw in Valve for now too.

Things can change so who knows. I don’t enjoy casual mobile games. I do enjoy the Quest 2. I can only imagine how great VR gaming will be by the end of this decade. Then we have Roblox, a single game [platform], valued at roughly the same price as Activision without the acquisition margin.

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