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I'd take that!
There's been a lot of talk online since the take over announcement that MS is going to pull the Activision titles off the PlayStation network but the more you think about it, the less that makes sense.
Why pay 70bn for something to then cut of more than 50% of the customers (and so future revenue)? People will say "to sell more Xboxes" but the margins on manufacturing are tiny (consoles are sold at a loss for much of their life-cycle), where as the margin on selling content is huge (hence the logic for selling the consoles at a loss).
Then there's idea that this is probably the last console generation. Maybe the play is to just hold the brands so when everything goes on the cloud, everyone is playing on MS cloud servers.
I still think it's a bad acquisition for the gaming industry but maybe it's just gamings turn to eat itself up the same as music did 20 years ago & TV has been doing for the last 5 or so.
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They've mentioned they want to get gamepass on as many devices as possible. I'd imagine to become the "netflix of gaming"