Goronmon comments on It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK

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[–] Goronmon@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

IIRC they did sign the deal that let’s the continue to get releases for a couple more years...

It is ten more years. If Sony isn't able to come up with a decent alternative in a decade, well, I won't exactly feel sorry for them.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

More likely, they'll just buy Ubisoft or EA.

We want lots of smaller corps competing, not just a couple giants. Every merger is one fewer of the former, regardless whether it forces one of the existing big corps to step up their game.

Not that ABK was small, and for once I'm split because holy hell did it need new management.

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[–] 50gp@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

problem with this is the size of these companies, sony is not a megacorp in same tier as MS and they likely wouldnt be able to allocate funding for large gaming acquisitions such as EA

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[–] Goronmon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Being the market leader, Sony will have a much harder time making larger acquisitions than MS did, and this ABV merger didn't exactly breeze through.

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