The UK Competition and Markets Authority has defended its decision to block Microsoft's $68.7bn Activision Blizzard buy…
While we haven't even begun to tap into the full potential of the PS5, fans are already beginning to talk about what Sony's next console, the PlayStation 6, will look like and what features it will have.
“While we haven't even begun to tap into the full potential of the PS5“
We always here this statement yet we have plenty of games that struggle to run at solid frame rates or decent resolutions.
There are two reasons why all those Bethesda studios closed, and neither of them have anything to do with Bethesda (directly)...
Game Pass and Activision.
The guy confirming what we've all (well, most of us) been saying since the latest purchase.
Honestly i think Bethesda needs to buy themselves out of zenimax/MSs hands and do their own thing, i honestly think that would fix a lot of issues and save them from a potential closure.
Ah, we can see how the Microsoft media machine works.
Every article I read now is some kind of attempt to shift the blame off Microsoft and paint them as the victims or convince people that Microsoft mistakes were just some kind unforeseeable unfortunate twist of fate.
The shills are out in full force today.
It's greed. MS has the IP's it wants now it's dumping the studios that it's raided, MS will still make money from Tango's games unlike the people that made them. If anyone follows MS outside of gaming you'll see this is what they do, buy companies take what they want consolidate some of the workforce and shut them down. I don't know why people are acting so surprised when this is Microsoft being Microsoft.
MS is a three trillion dollar company, if it enters a market it has no need to compete, they take what they want and with the financial influence it can bypass laws that are meant to protect the consumer and the workforce. Just look at how they are cornering the AI market right now with buyups and investments.
Capcom Co., Ltd. today announced that in its consolidated earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, net sales were 152,410 million yen (up 21.0% year-over-year), operating income was 57,081 million yen (up 12.3% year-over-year), ordinary income was 59,422 million yen (up 15.7 % year-over-year), and net income attributable to owners of the parent was 43,374 million yen (up 18.1 % year-over-year).
Not really a brilliant defence from the CMA to some of the grilling. Slightly Partisan highlights here if you don't want to read/watch the whole thing; https://twitter.com/FOSSpat...
How will the UK have its own Silicon Valley when it will all be American businesses? Sounds more like just Americans expanding based on their own desires and needs in that region, not the UK growing their own technology growth center.
There's a ton of arrogance by Microsoft and Kotick here in regards that UK needs them to be Silicon Valley when the fact is they would not be creating anything of the sort. At any time, Microsoft and Activision can pull out and move their business to the next country they need to put a foothold into or will agree to their demands. That's not a security for the UK, that's just what we have in the U.S., businesses with tons of money running wherever they want and taking tax credits and benefits because they bring jobs when in reality they take money from the people while giving some jobs that don't have longevity or bring increased funds to UK other than jobs that the UK itself could create to compete against these same companies.
This whole thing is bad for gaming, now we're on the doorstep of having Microsoft control gaming the way they control PC operating systems which is bad enough but now we have to worry about them actually being able to force the gaming industry towards crappy streaming.
Not to mention their ability to steamroll PlayStation the only real thing keeping them in check.
And of course, Microsoft did what every big American cooperation does they looked for some people whose job depends on elections and gave them bribes to support their position.
It's really sad that anyone supports Microsoft when there is no way this makes anything better for anyone including xbox fans... where the only thing they can hope to gain winning some kind of "console war" and are completely unable to look at the long-term or bigger picture here.
Yay, we destroyed PlayStation for the 100 million people who have their whole lives worth of gaming on the platform, hurray we did it, we sure made those people's lives worse!
I love how they are echoing words uttered by MS when the deal was first blocked
Seems like their scare tactics are working, how did we get to a point where a company can bully a country over a decision. What’s the point of people like the CMA if you just allow everything and bitch over a decision made.