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What the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal means for gamers
The Xbox’s parent company goes on a shopping spree to the tune of almost $69 billion. Microsoft expands gaming and Xbox further, buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion: Subscribe to CNET: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on TikTok:
satori tendo
January 19, 2022 at 12:05 am
2:00 and Ubisoft play in talk to be in ultimate game pass
Eli
January 19, 2022 at 12:08 am
Fans: xbox don’t have enough exclusives
Microsoft: and we took it peronally
thisguynamedbrian
January 19, 2022 at 12:10 am
Why would Microsoft buy Activision Blizzard but keep the biggest IPs multi platform. The point is to sell gampass and the Xbox platform. Why is this a question every time. Sony would never do this if the table was flipped.
SeKToR
January 19, 2022 at 12:10 am
BTW do your homework CNET. Kotick is leaving after the purchase is complete mid 2023.
EagleT Vlogs
January 19, 2022 at 12:16 am
Bingo
Christopher G
January 19, 2022 at 12:16 am
That whole thing of having two subscription service confuses me. I get signing up to get the multiplayer and downloading the one free game you get a month. But the way XBOX/Microsoft is doing it is economical to the user and the service. I don’t see too many shilling out money for both services when Microsoft and Nintendo have both tied into ine
Michael Walker
January 19, 2022 at 12:21 am
Ask yourself one simple question…”why would I pay $68 billion for the largest gaming acquisition in the history of the industry to continue to allow business as usual with the games still being made on my competition’s console?” You are dead wrong on COD continuing to be on the PS platform.
Kxkv K
January 19, 2022 at 1:18 am
It actually makes sense to keep it multi platform. They will make more money for cod on Xbox and PC and will make money for every PS cod sold as well. If anything the “exclusive for one year” deal that’s for PS only right now will move over to Xbox but the franchise is a multi billion dollar franchise it only makes sense for them to double dip
The Shayne and Ethan Show
January 19, 2022 at 12:23 am
Kiss C.O.D. and Diablo IV goodbye for PS.
Greg Goodman
January 19, 2022 at 1:00 am
Omg it isn’t happening lol
SpacemanINA
January 19, 2022 at 12:28 am
Buy blizzard when its cheap 🤣
thisguynamedbrian
January 19, 2022 at 12:36 am
I can confidently say Microsoft didn’t buy Activision to continue making nothing but COD
Rat A Tat
January 19, 2022 at 12:38 am
Well to all my friends dumb enough to buy a PS5 ,it’d now time to invest in a series x welcome to gaming
Rich V
January 19, 2022 at 12:40 am
Higher prices and a decrease in the choice of what to play and how to play it. Sitting back and waiting for the ultimate crash which is destined to happen.
Warmaster 7
January 19, 2022 at 12:43 am
Video Games make more money than Hollyweird…
Because Video Games are actually good
Tea With Danny
January 19, 2022 at 12:52 am
If you have GamePass, you have no real life outside gaming
Vitosnatios
January 19, 2022 at 12:53 am
windows of warcraft
mrValdez
January 19, 2022 at 12:56 am
Cloud gaming is a lie.
twitte0king
January 19, 2022 at 12:57 am
Subscription is not the future, I hate adobe
ColtsFan4Life 35
January 19, 2022 at 1:04 am
This could be bad news for gaming. Microsoft is looking to go the streaming route with gaming. You won’t actually own the games anymore due to digital rights/streaming. Gamepass will also see price hikes in the near future.
zalien6
January 19, 2022 at 1:26 am
I agree also go colts !!
Peter Perez
January 19, 2022 at 1:05 am
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Danny C
January 19, 2022 at 1:12 am
That beard looks creepy
Yimpa_aum
January 19, 2022 at 1:15 am
Microsoft bought the Boardwalk in Monopoly lol
Chad Achee
January 19, 2022 at 1:24 am
There rumors ten 2 could be bought by xbox
nygeek64
January 19, 2022 at 1:27 am
Maybe Starcraft will finally get the support it deserves.
Ocsjc13
January 19, 2022 at 1:27 am
Everyone only cares about call pf duty
Marc-Andre Levesque
January 19, 2022 at 5:45 pm
Hard to say … but Sony Playstation execs now have a second black eye…first Zenimax, now Blizzard and some Activision franchises … they’ll survive, but MS is taking Sony for its punching bag right now…sony should have accepted MS offer to take down the “exclusives” wall from the consoles…but no, they sent MS packing 3 years ago, so MS is retaliating and buying everything to crush anyone in in their path.
Emeka Abu
January 19, 2022 at 5:45 pm
If you look at the bigger picture, It’s all about cloud infrastructure. As an IT guy & business analyst, cloud infrastructure is the future and also the biggest money maker & market. Microsoft wants to push their “AZURE” cloud service & their CEO is all about the “CLOUD” because it’s a HUGE MONEY MAKER right now
A Polo
January 19, 2022 at 5:49 pm
Are we getting a cortana skin for echo in overwatch?
Jaime Ramirez
January 19, 2022 at 6:25 pm
Cod will be exclusive in 2024
Nerif
January 19, 2022 at 6:31 pm
This is a monopoly in the making. Microsoft is destroying the gaming industry. Also Halo Infinite is only liked because no one actually bought it and used gamepass or f2p.
watchthe1369
January 19, 2022 at 6:55 pm
The creative team at Blizzard just walked out. I would be… I would not be working for a monopoly company.
SociallyAwkwardRem
January 19, 2022 at 7:01 pm
Cloud gaming definitely is the future but fast reliable internet needs to be more easily available and at a lower cost. Gamepass also has to change where they can possibly allow you to own 1 game of your choosing after owning game pass for 6-7 months because I don’t feel comfortable paying for something I won’t be able to own if I can no longer afford the service.
gingataisen
January 19, 2022 at 7:21 pm
This video could’ve used someone who knew what’s he/she is talking about.
DyingWithPaul
January 19, 2022 at 7:22 pm
I wish they put some of that money into making a decent halo game.
THE HOUSEMAN
January 19, 2022 at 8:12 pm
Disagree 100% Apple once thought controllers was Dead and Touch Screen was the Future. Boy was they wrong!
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January 19, 2022 at 8:16 pm
I believe that the big game releases such as cod will be timed exclusive, say for 6 months before it is released to the other platforms. Just my opinion
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Jaric Fontaine
January 19, 2022 at 8:46 pm
The idea that Microsoft won’t make these games exclusive to windows or Xbox is naive at best.
Drakkart
January 19, 2022 at 9:01 pm
Pft, seruiously no big deal. i mean come on, Activision recieved just a slight upgrade by aquiring blizzard. i mean Wow is dead since they killed open world pvp with burning crusade. yeah it was fun for a while but no longer then that for me at least. Starcraft 2 yeah well sorry to put it like that but starcraft was still kinda better sure not grfx wise… and diablo omg the last one was horrible. i might miss the elder scrolls – well after skyrim the series with online was not that cool either the best part still is morrowind for me at least. CoD – don’t play shooters. And no clue how good overwatch might be, but definitely not into candy crush. i don’t know like if microsoft would have bought steam that would be a desaster but did activision actually make any good games lately? i mean that company was too big already and i am sick of stuff not properly working on release. or features being poorly implemented crashes and such stuff. sorry but the innovative stuff is in the indiescene anyway, really good gems to be found. not that same bs but better grfx every year milking stuff with the games “streamlined” and such sorry microsoft since TCPA i nevr touched any of your stuff and as it looks like for good reason. oh yeah minecraft R.I.P. people say it is still good though. Anyone else not convinced about the recent releases of the big “gaming” guys. or am i alone here? i mean since ubisoft killed the settlers i never touched one of their games again. maxis – please spare me. activision well i just feel like there is a trend there the bigger they get the lamer the games become don’t ya think? i mean fanboyism aside in general don’t you feel that whenever the game has a number behind it stuff might be cool if the number is below three but then things go downhill pretty quickly…. Oh remember when we had physical cardridges to plug into our consoles? no updates it either worked and was great or it sucked. good ‘ol times!
A123 123
January 19, 2022 at 9:12 pm
You know as a sony fan i dont realy feel sad, because we still have GOW and Horizon and Spiderman and Wolverine and more, the reason i hate microsoft is instead of making her own game she only buy gaming companies
Korie Harrigin
January 19, 2022 at 9:19 pm
They said only on Xbox not playstation
Barrett
January 19, 2022 at 10:00 pm
That’s one more hit for linux gaming. I don’t see why anyone would want to get behind Microsoft with their anti-consumerism and anti privacy methods
Irvine Spiegel
January 19, 2022 at 10:38 pm
I had to check the date. ” Is it April already?!” This is insane!!!!
Evacody124
January 19, 2022 at 11:08 pm
I’m going to point out this is big. What people are missing is Valve does not care because a lot of there money comes from Steam which in the PC market is between 50% to 70% of where people buy there games. the fact that EA has there games on there now and even the Halo games.
I’m just going to say it this is not about the metaverse or VR Valve was doing that before many of these other companies . We as gamers need Nintendo, Sony, etc to really take it more serious when it comes to buying games for download. At some point that’s where consoles will go just as PCs have done.
So unless every one just wants to be games from Steam who will then jack up there prices to god only know how high we as gamers need to push the other big two of three to fallow suit with Microsoft. Set up there version of Gamepass that works on console and PC.
Give us gamers as many options of where to get games as we can get. I like Steam but I don’t want them to be the only store in town. And with GOG hurting and Epic just throwing money with free games who is there really besides Steam?
Verb
January 19, 2022 at 11:31 pm
I just want Skate 4 to come out!
RPG Fan
January 19, 2022 at 11:33 pm
I want Starcraft and Warcraft console ports for years…
Kenn Tollens
January 20, 2022 at 12:31 am
Well, say goodbye to good games
Monsuta Man
January 20, 2022 at 12:31 am
The Rise of World of Warcraft…….
…Coming soon…..
O M
January 20, 2022 at 1:00 am
I would hate to see Amazon and Apple acquire these companies and run them into the ground
Just Sayin
January 20, 2022 at 1:01 am
What company is next , UBISOFT? Lol
Big McLargehuge
January 20, 2022 at 1:19 am
ONE GAME
I DON’T KNOW WHY
Jonathan Riccardi
January 20, 2022 at 2:23 am
Lands of Lore could come back now God will do exactly what I was told by Him God
with now take on Electronic Arts it could happen I’m guessing here in 60 days.
I’m hoping it happens Lands of Lore may have a set of movies or shows very soon.
Jonathan Riccardi
January 20, 2022 at 2:25 am
This is fantastic news hope is coming Electronic Arts is next and finally Epic Games
anyone who uses the Consumer will be targeted by God basically God is fighting for us
this is a huge day and a huge celebration Jesus and God and the Angels are with us!
Ramón David Alarcón Faro
January 20, 2022 at 2:24 am
But where did you get that ps5 headset stand??
Jonathan Riccardi
January 20, 2022 at 2:27 am
Microsoft was the hero in the past hopefully they shall be again please buy EA
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January 20, 2022 at 2:30 am
If EA is bough I can propose my movie idea to someone who will listen my Dad and I can build a deal to help the poor
If Lands of Lore becomes a series again donations to the hungry can be made whole cities could get funds
all due to new creativity more buying and selling means donation and hope for the poor and hungry.
It would mean creativity and the sadness in the world would be less it would mean fans films that
could help others it could mean plushies and action figures, it could mean bed sheets and t-shirts anyway
I will deffinately discuss this to God and Jesus in prayer.
Have a fantastic night
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Violet S
January 20, 2022 at 2:40 am
gaming is boring anyways waste of time and money and the ps5 is just a crappy computer
Kewlzter TC
January 20, 2022 at 5:46 am
No. The old CEo, is to exit once acquisition is complete
我 Men Pu Yang
January 20, 2022 at 5:49 am
It means FREE ONLINE MULTIPLAYER for all of US!!!!
IntoTheBeyond
January 20, 2022 at 5:51 am
Cloud gaming has a long way to go most of the world has a connection speed lower than 200mb per second . And the cost of playing games on cloud services is too high . With Netflix ,Hulu, HBOMAX, Disney+, Apple tv, Amazon prime it’s just to much and there’s not enough room in the market for all of them.
Beerbottles123
January 20, 2022 at 6:11 am
Microsoft – the ‘Disney’ of gaming Companies.
Chris Johannsen
January 20, 2022 at 6:32 am
Lmao there’s no way cod etc go to PlayStation going forward. Just like Bethesda. Keep coping.
This is an incredibly biased, ignorant commentary in general. Activision is worth more than marvel.
The_Natives
January 20, 2022 at 8:55 am
I don’t see Take-Two on that buy list. GTA has made the most money out of any game.
TheMelbournelad
January 20, 2022 at 9:22 am
I’m still annoyed they couldn’t of paid a few more cent per share or something to round it up to $69million. Nice
Bender B Rodriguez
January 20, 2022 at 10:02 am
There’s nothing “micro” about this acquisition.
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Michael Baker
January 20, 2022 at 12:04 pm
Fact – Microsoft is worth 20 times the VALUR of SONY! This means Microsoft has decided to RULE gaming with the M OST POWERFUL CONSOLE and the BEST GAMES PERIOD. Who will they BUY next? EA us RIPE! Microsoft could buy Sony or take over but it appears they are goinf the way they did with pc software and run Sony out!
Lad Boii
January 20, 2022 at 1:35 pm
2023: Microsoft bought Australia for 1.3Billion USD
Techno Toad
January 20, 2022 at 4:21 pm
For us PC gamers it means more future exclusives. It’s a good thing. For Playstation gamers…well you have your exclusives like Spiderman and GOW. Maybe SquarEnix will give you guys a decent FF exclusive
unrenium
January 20, 2022 at 4:42 pm
damn, this is insane :O
Microsoft is killing sony
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Byro Lynch
January 20, 2022 at 5:52 pm
This purchase is about the “meta-verse”, this purchase is about the cloud-gaming future. Honestly, COD is a drop in the bucket as far Microsoft’s long term plans. COD, sans Warfare, will be a console/PC exclusive. I doubt COD will be released on an annual basis anymore.
SubFlow22
January 20, 2022 at 7:07 pm
If they cull the woke, this will be good for games and gamers. If not, then not.
Yash Trimbake
January 20, 2022 at 8:17 pm
My question is why the f this step towards monopoly,,,..
Was Activision broke ..
Was their an fund shortage in operations in activision..
The owners of the activision is like they had no intrest in running the business more ….
Everything owned by only those handfull of companies is dangerous…
Sen Family
January 20, 2022 at 9:23 pm
10 years from now, we look back and laugh at how we used to spend £500 almost every year to upgrade consoles. Cloud gaming is literally a game changer.
Laurieann Rogan
January 20, 2022 at 9:26 pm
This must stop now, Microsoft is trying to monopolize gaming and the Government has to stop Microsoft now. They went after Google and Apple , They must put a stop to this. This is absurd. They can not beat Playstation so they buy all these gaming companies to deprive Playstation of these games to try and hurt playstation sales.
Jeevess S
January 21, 2022 at 1:22 am
“Welcome to the Xbox family… We’re all adopted because our dad is sterile.”
Corey King
January 21, 2022 at 2:16 am
If it was easy to get rid of Bobby the share holder and others in the company would have gotten it done by now but its not that simple and Microsoft isn’t about to tell him they will fire him day one or else he would have never gone along with the sale. So they play the PR game by not saying anything bad about him at the same time don’t defend him. When they “officially” take over they he will be gone with a severance package. Is it fair, no but its the only way to get rid of him.
Strider
January 21, 2022 at 2:56 am
If Microsoft buys TakeTwo I will sell my soul and never buy a playstation again.
VenoStuff
January 21, 2022 at 4:48 am
Yup, just look what happened to Mojang, not good.
NostalGame
January 21, 2022 at 7:12 am
lol rejoicing with an old trash devs? they can’t still create good games
Tuyết Nhung Nguyễn Thị
January 21, 2022 at 10:18 am
We’re experiencing overpowering signals. The mobile data service will shut off if this is operator 1.
SuperNeutral
January 21, 2022 at 11:19 am
Boy, if i was Sony this would be really scary.. pretty sure the PS brand products are the main bread winners now.
MintyFresh
January 23, 2022 at 9:25 pm
Not really considering how Activision Blizzard has been doing. Unless Microsoft can make them turn around and build better games/ re-establish with their community, Sony will do just fine. Activision Blizzard has been on a hotseat for their workers and leadership. We’ll see what happens.
Ken
January 21, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Finally we’ll be able to see a Bill Gates NPC in World of Warcraft.
Dot
January 21, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Can’t wait to play more cods from gamepass!
Simboiss
January 21, 2022 at 9:16 pm
Microsoft buys something = the world becomes a bit darker = less Mac compatibility in perspective (aka racism)
Evolving Spirit
January 21, 2022 at 9:35 pm
Microsoft still has 60 billion budget to acquire more studios for this year, so ps shares will fall again.
Dane H
January 21, 2022 at 10:59 pm
God that beard is absolutely horrific.
Jaz
January 22, 2022 at 1:50 am
pheww.. good thing i have a pc and ps4 lol i don’t really have anything to worry about tbh
RondoOfBloodX
January 22, 2022 at 9:06 am
Breaking news Nintendo buys SEGA, Capcom, and Ubisoft…………Not really but could you imagine if that actually happened next week?
Adam the Spiny GIANT
January 22, 2022 at 4:05 pm
Is this why Activision filed a copyright claim against a video I made last night of my playthrough of Skylanders Swap Force? A game that’s 8 years old!!
Gichanasa
January 22, 2022 at 5:53 pm
At that purchase price, it makes a lot of sense that the core interest of MS in this acquisition of Activision Blizzard is to support its effort to conquer the metaverse. That’s beyond the gaming market. Otherwise, probably not so much.
SmartCrocodileIT
January 22, 2022 at 8:10 pm
Are they gonna buy Sony?
Rahij Syed
January 22, 2022 at 7:40 pm
Apple should buy steam
The Vibe Station
January 22, 2022 at 9:27 pm
All I want is good servers on Call of Duty! and make them great again.
BigSleepyOx
January 22, 2022 at 10:26 pm
lol. If it were Sony who bought Activision, there’d not even be a discussion about whether they’d be locked to PS, everyone would know that such would be the case. But with Microsoft, “The smart money says that these games are just too big to be on just Xbox and PC and XCloud.”. So, if Sony buys, the games aren’t too big to be locked to a single platform; but if Microsoft buys, the games are too big to be kept to three platforms?
The logical pretzels are delicious.
Arian Serrano#2
January 22, 2022 at 11:20 pm
They’re gonna end up buying Ubisoft
oak Mars
January 22, 2022 at 11:54 pm
If sony was smart they would make A competitor to cod
shadow phoenix
January 23, 2022 at 2:31 am
with activision under microsoft just opens up microsoft to buy more companies. in the future microsoft just has to buy 12 companies that put microsoft in danger. so a close buyout never happens again talking about ibm and apple came close to a buyout of microsoft in the past
Enrique Comemierda
January 23, 2022 at 3:13 am
Hmmm, I gotta dig up my 2000 shares and figure out how to exchange them for Microsoft.
Shmuzhin Phuzin
January 23, 2022 at 10:30 am
Cloud gaming is not the future, lol.
Lee Kazuya
January 23, 2022 at 4:41 pm
buy take two, gta becomes xbox exclusive, game over for sony?
peter c
January 23, 2022 at 5:15 pm
I hope this means we will get a new starcraft or warcraft rts? I feel like act bliz didn’t care to make any new rts games so maybe Microsoft will push it now that they jus released aoe 4
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January 24, 2022 at 12:25 am
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January 24, 2022 at 2:18 am
Blizzard sold out to Activision then Activision fed upon the soul of Blizzard until it was a withered husk then Activision sold out to Microsoft lol
Fancy
January 24, 2022 at 7:39 pm
Microsoft heading in a good direction
rocoent
January 25, 2022 at 4:33 pm
lol why would Microsoft pay 70 billion to keep releasing those games on PlayStation? They were already coming to Xbox anyway.
Tony
January 25, 2022 at 9:04 pm
As long as MS puts WOW on my XBOX, nothing matters. Let’s Go Satya – Let’s GO!