Microsoft Is Quietly Building A Video Game Monopoly

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1. You are a man to my heart. Someone who can talk business as confidently as gaming.

2. Bethisda

3. "Quietly"

4. Yea there’s no way they’re gona make COD exclusive but it would be a great cash cow to fund the development of some really good next gen games with the developers they have but don’t sleep on Sony.

5. Except for the part where playstation is better… Lol

6. A monopoly of games I don't like, how convenient

7. I don't understand how things like video games and tv shows can be considered anti-competitive. They are just forms of mass produced art.

8. They’re trying to do the licensing game. Makes way more money.

9. You still can't figure out that outro edit.

10. It’s bad for gamers it’s good if you own Microsoft.. I hope the government blocks it.. Microsoft is horrible

11. Video Game Monopoly. A Bait …..

12. What Microsoft purchased was a bunch of well known IPs but the thing is in gaming, a well known IP can be destroyed almost over night if the game developers make bad games with those IPs. Also with the advances in gaming tech, many game developers can start new companies and create new IPs which can dominate the market in the future. Microsoft has to make sure that they treat their new IPs like gold or else they will fail.

13. Microsoft is working with Gamestop to create the future of gaming. Power to the players and creators. Nft marketplace

14. As a PC gamer, I'm happy this is happening. It is getting extremely expensive to make a AAA game, especially ones with open-world like Fallout, GTA, Elderscroll. Game studio burn through their cash very quickly so they need the big boys to come with with cash injection as exclusivity deals or direct buyout.

    MS has a BAD rep managing game studios. The studios making Fable & Mechwarrior, etc. You can watch their failures in the XBox documentary. But with Phil Spenser at the helm, there's hope.

    I am looking forward to Elder Scroll and Diablo sequels.

15. Am I the only one who think this deal might be blocked by the government.

16. How tf did you manage to pronounce Bethesda that way

17. Microsoft is walking on a very thin line where one wrong move can bring tons of investigations and regulations.

18. I hope this deal go through

19. Quietly? they just executed the biggest tech acquisition in history. that's pretty loud.

20. I think it is a bit hyperbolic to suggest this deal means game over for Sony. I think it should be noted that all three of the major video game companies, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, all run on different models of targeting their core demographics. Also while it is very likely that Microsoft will use Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard to create new exclusive IPs, Microsoft has never been a company to make exclusivity at the cost of profits. Take Microsoft Office for instance. By any measure it is the most well known and used suite of office programs, yet when given the opportunity to extend its reach to Apple it took it. There are just some computer users that were never going to jump to Windows and by extending to Apple it increased its market share. Creating content for game pass is important, but I'd think if a game became popular enough Microsoft wouldn't be hesitant to extended it to multi platform. Same goes for its acquired titles. There is no way any of those current franchises are going exclusive. It just doesn't make good business sense. If anything Microsoft has proven that you don't really need exclusive titles in this day and age to sell a console, just good games. Aside from Halo what well known titles are exclusive to the Xbox? Microsoft has lived in the world of PC gaming mostly where nothing is exclusive to the Windows experience beyond what developers program for. All this purchase does is insure future quality content for Game Pass to make it a more dominant brand.

21. ROFL @ Bethesda pronunciation, I nearly died hearing that

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