Hacker News Reader

Comment by aeurielesn | Hacker News Reader

Microsoft is trying to buy more than just Activision/Blizzard I the games industry.

Their goal (in my opinion) is to have enough studios to be cranking out one or more games each month for game pass.

With many games taking over 3 years now to make and about 10 of those Activision studios working on just Call of Duty, they have several more studios to go.

In my opinion, they're just playing catch up with Sony. Sony started buying up studios years ago and has some quality studios pumping out top notch games which are Playstation Exclusive. To deal with that Microsoft is buying up some too, they just went straight to the top and decided to go for an already estabished studios instead of going for smaller ones and investing until they deliver in 5-10 years.

What people hated about Microsoft’s acquisition was that it will deprive its competitors IPs they used to have access to - eventually.

Sony’s acquisitions are less “egregious” as the companies they acquire usually generated few to no (valuable) IPs for their competitors - there are exceptions of course. That’s why most all of their acquisitions fly under the radar.

Yea, but the problem was originally caused by Sony. Many say it's anti-competive but really it's basically done to compete. I would say making games console exclusive should be banned if you want to remove things like this.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com