Your bad takes are why i keep coming back . You give me life

Common UK L

Goddamn didnt know about that

I own both series consoles btw

All of the sudden people just became industry experts

ligma

When Microsoft drops this deal and takes the money they would have used on this + money they saved since then to grab take two for more shambles

Xbox are f***ed

Monkey paw curls: kotick stays as CEO

You can gladly cope more but one day you’ll realize we’re talking about plastic boxes here and you shouldn’t have loyalty to any console or company

If you’re a real Xbox fan you should be the first person calling them out on their bullshit and holding them accountable

By defending them you send clear messages to Xbox / Microsoft that they can keep getting away with false promises and bs
We as consumers deserve better

!dream the world if the microsoft x activision deal got approved via the CMA

It’s fully possible to be an Xbox fan , critique their ways and appreciate the changes that are coming . People may not agree with your framing that Xbox is going downhill but that doesn’t mean people don’t have their own criticisms

Appeal will go through.

Just sucks that this dogshit batshit insane out of the loop backwards ass country is going to delay a positive change for the majority of gamers in the world

Fair enough

My post saying it’s dead is obvi hyperbolic but tbh that’s lowkey my real opinion

Switch and PlayStation are breaking sales records while Xbox sales are actually decreasing by 30%

That is actually f***ing insane. The market is starting to speak for itself

Out of the loop? How much do you know about competition law?

They blocked a deal that they admit is beneficial for gamers and consumers because...get this...CLOUD GAMING

Who the f*** gives a s*** about cloud gaming lmao. Yea I'll call that out of the loop

Not a single soul has even commented on cloud gaming at any point of this process. The majority of the talk was based on call of duty.

Now all of a sudden cloud gaming is just so precious. Nobody cares about that bullshit!

Also to be fair they are having shortage issues and expected hardware to drop this quarter . Services are up so subscriptions are doing great but it may be too soon to use this quarter as a scary metric. I think if by the end of this year , things are still looking rough with all their big releases then it’s more of a conversation

What are the benefits of the merger?

much easier and cheaper access to all actiblizzard games for millions of gamers

xbox agreeing to send CoD and other actiblizzard games to basically every gaming service and console for at least the next 10 years

forces sony to actually develop an FPS instead of relying on CoD til the end of time

Call of duty and all activision titles available "freely" to the tens of millions gamepass customers world wide. Making activision games more accessible to more cloud platforms. and more compeititon in the gaming space <3

Crying real tears at the last point

First point doesn't warrant ignoring the CMA concerns

NVIDIA had CoD pre-2020; Nintendo had CoD since the Wii. I'm sure they could strike up licensing agreements if they so wanted to. Historically they do not need Microsoft for that

From what I can see, blocking the deal was the safer option to allowing Azure more marketplace