Welcoming the Legendary Teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox - Xbox Wire
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Today we welcome the teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox. It's a good day to play.
      • Platform27@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It applies to most business.

        1. You give a positive face to the market you’re in (Game Pass, Phil Spencer, pro-dev vibe, etc).
        2. You buy chunks of the market (Activ-Bliz-King is a massive chunk), while saying it’s good for the industry.
        3. You squeeze the company of its IP, while bleeding the market dry of money. All of which kills, or at least hurts that market.

        Right now, Micro$oft is in the Extend phase.

      • OfficialThunderbolt@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        Because, to the majority of console gamers in the Americas and Europe, Call of Duty, FIFA, GTA, and Madden are the Only Games That Actually Matter™. There are a few million people that buy PlayStations just to play 1-2 of those games to the exclusion of everything else.

        Now that they’ve taken out one of the four major reasons why people outside of Asia buy PlayStations, they can extinguish PlayStation & assert a monopoly on console gaming. It’s sickening.

        And somehow, I don’t think that Sony resurrecting the Resistance series & making it into an annual release that always launches during the holiday season will make much of a difference.

        • saigot@lemmy.ca
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          2 years ago

          Is there anything to back up the idea that call of duty is the behemoth it once was? Fortnite seems to be far more culturally relavent than war zone and seems to be both more profitable and have a larger player base. Don’t get me wrong cod is still a big game, I just have my doubts it’s making or breaking the whole industry.