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<blockquote data-quote="FAST6191" data-source="post: 9721372" data-attributes="member: 32303"><p>As with others this was unexpected. I knew they had a serious acquisitions war chest (even with this then still many tens of billions) but presumed they were going to go for medium fish or choice fish.</p><p>Re them being the company killer. Have they really been that? Rare is a shadow of its former self, though from what people have said it was going downhill when still under Nintendo's roof, but looking at their other acquisitions then things are chugging along nicely. The old "embrace, extend, extinguish" seems to be a thing of the past for games, and if comparing them to EA then not even close.</p><p></p><p>Re COD.</p><p>We can look at money and I am sure it would earn a lot. As far as it being a trend setting title that leads the rest of the industry around by its nose a la how it was back in the modern warfare/modern warfare 2 days then not so much.</p><p>That counts for something, not sure what in terms of dollar values (does mean you will rarely have a competitor if everybody is trying to clone something) but counts as something.</p><p>I am not sure what it is today that is the current shiny-- Battlefield used to be a competitor but it blew its brains out. Not sure where I would place fortnite as that seems to be doing its own thing. Halo maybe if this recent one was not a fluke.</p><p></p><p>Re lawsuit. The one I saw in the previous discussion was pretty weak but I will note one of the primary jobs of lawyers is to look at other lawsuits and estimate the outcomes, so I am sure that is well factored into all this. These sorts of acquisitions take a while to come to pass so I imagine they have some inside info as well, possibly even "come tell us what went down" to various ex exmployees.</p><p>I would be curious to know what else they did -- one of the things you could do (albeit of dubious legality) is pay for a bunch of news stories so people can pretend to be outraged and thus drop the stock price which makes this acquisition that bit cheaper.</p><p></p><p>As far as competition concerns. There are not none from where I sit but at the same time there are still plenty of other massive companies in the gaming space. I am sure they could appease a few by continuing to issue games (maybe delayed, not as primary platform for dev and without DLC) as well if it came down to it. Would be interesting to see a world where they closed ranks though.</p><p></p><p>Going to have to go have a figure out of what properties, studios and more they own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FAST6191, post: 9721372, member: 32303"] As with others this was unexpected. I knew they had a serious acquisitions war chest (even with this then still many tens of billions) but presumed they were going to go for medium fish or choice fish. Re them being the company killer. Have they really been that? Rare is a shadow of its former self, though from what people have said it was going downhill when still under Nintendo's roof, but looking at their other acquisitions then things are chugging along nicely. The old "embrace, extend, extinguish" seems to be a thing of the past for games, and if comparing them to EA then not even close. Re COD. We can look at money and I am sure it would earn a lot. As far as it being a trend setting title that leads the rest of the industry around by its nose a la how it was back in the modern warfare/modern warfare 2 days then not so much. That counts for something, not sure what in terms of dollar values (does mean you will rarely have a competitor if everybody is trying to clone something) but counts as something. I am not sure what it is today that is the current shiny-- Battlefield used to be a competitor but it blew its brains out. Not sure where I would place fortnite as that seems to be doing its own thing. Halo maybe if this recent one was not a fluke. Re lawsuit. The one I saw in the previous discussion was pretty weak but I will note one of the primary jobs of lawyers is to look at other lawsuits and estimate the outcomes, so I am sure that is well factored into all this. These sorts of acquisitions take a while to come to pass so I imagine they have some inside info as well, possibly even "come tell us what went down" to various ex exmployees. I would be curious to know what else they did -- one of the things you could do (albeit of dubious legality) is pay for a bunch of news stories so people can pretend to be outraged and thus drop the stock price which makes this acquisition that bit cheaper. As far as competition concerns. There are not none from where I sit but at the same time there are still plenty of other massive companies in the gaming space. I am sure they could appease a few by continuing to issue games (maybe delayed, not as primary platform for dev and without DLC) as well if it came down to it. Would be interesting to see a world where they closed ranks though. Going to have to go have a figure out of what properties, studios and more they own. [/QUOTE]
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