Omg this guy never stop crying

LOL.

Cryan: we fear that MS will release COD bugged on PS5
Proceed to release the last of us remake on PC with issues only god can fix

The pot calling the kettle black.

Oh how hypocritical lol. Most if not all companies do this. Tis business.

This is really boring and dragging on now. Sony should just let them buy it. Like Nintendo has done for many years. Sony really does not need COD. Sure they may miss the money it brings in. Buy I'm sure they will make plenty from destiny and Fortnite and what ever live service games they release.

Money talks and MS is spending big. This has never happened in the history of the industry. I just hope that people dont forget that they allowed this to happen.

The CMA was just like Joe Manchin, all that talk but in the end they backed out, all that bark and No Bite! With all that said, Sony should just sign the deal when this gets approved. Enough already, let’s just all move on. It is what it is.

CMA got their piece and now they are out.

You know what ...just let them have Activision. Then they can ruin COD, Diablo and everything else, just like everything they touch. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't paid attention to history. Look at what they did to Halo.....a previously 'untouchable' IP brought to it's knees in the search of profit instead of passion and quality.

When the deal does go through I really hope Sony gives a big FU to Microsoft, just like they did to Nintendo when they got screwed over, which led to Playstation being born. Let them keep COD because they will monetise the crap out of it more than usual due to it being on gampass....probably going to be bare bones with drip fed content as well. You sure as hell ain't gonna be getting a full fledged entry each year like you used to.

Without Playstation ( which is Microsoft's hope for sales ) you will have just have Xbox players who won't buy it and PC players who will mostly pirate.....they will make peanuts.

So I hope Sony says keep that shit ( it's going downhill anyway...having to dig up the old games to remaster for some success ) and goes all in on a first party alternative that makes COD look like the tired old fossil it is. Us Playstation gamers will be there to support and enjoy it.

Well this deal is going through. If you are hardcore about not supporting it or buying an Xbox for it you might want to start spending those call of duty coins. If you are of the glass half full/ lemons into lemonade variety, maybe they could make the game better by focusing on one console. Then again Microsoft promised to make the game equal on switch and whatever its under powered successor would be. I wonder if Sony will play hardball and say F them and call of duty. It would cause a stark drop in income given how far and away sales are on PlayStation compared to any other means to play it. At the same time it would hurt themselves before they could try to come up with a replacement, just as Microsoft said.
Definitely wondering what the next 5 years will look like. The next 10. If Microsoft has made it clear that buying parent companies is ok, they may have opened the flood gates for some of these Chinese, UAE, and other financially blessed locations to join gaming through money. Ubisoft, EA, Take Two, and so on could be targeted as we speak.

At this point in time Sony PS needs to just focus on developing & releasing the best exclusives. Let MS have Activision because it seems that MS is going to acquire the publisher no matter what. Nintendo is doing great without COD the same will be for PS.

This deal is going to go through, and it always was going to.

All Microsoft gamers that think buying publishers is a good thing from videogaming dividion of company that cant even manage the studios they already have, be prepared for what will happend.

It's extremely easy to see what will be the ONLY move from Sony. One of those publishers is crystal clear who it is. I just have doubts about the second one.

Then it won't be timed exclusive, it will be exclusive... Not one or two games. All games.

Lol

Just shut up and Pay for all MS first party with your COD revenue

"unprecedented" It's like the world is addicted to this go-to word. There are only like a few dozen synonyms for it.

All these Activision games are just going to dwindle in popularity, from here on. Gamers will know to keep away from this developer and just move on.

Money talk and Microsoft got money

So Sony sicked the CMA on MS and the CMA turned around and bit them in the @$$

Only ones being irrational in this whole deal are Sony. Sorry. I love PlayStation but their arguments are bs all things considered. They sound desperate when they are not at all desperate.

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Japan never has massive sales numbers unless it's pokemon or some crap like that. Anything nintendo sells decent and in the millions lifetime.

Look at the hardware sales.

Series x sold 321 consoles, lmfao. Lifetime sales 183,697

PS5 Sold 28,654 consoles Lifetime sales 2,786,491

The switch has sold double the consoles Sony has and Japan loves it's handhelds.

WTF has any of this got to do with Microsoft trying to buy up parent companies so it gets all the goodies.

Crazy comments across the board. I see this acquisition going through. How much it affects the industry and Sony time will tell.

Personally, I think Sony will be just fine, their console is selling like hotcakes. I also see MS fulfilling their obligations to Sony and the others. Considering that an independent panel will have over site on the fulfillment of the deal. I don’t see Sony’s fear materializing.

It's starting to feel like Sony depended on CoD so much that they just decided to stop making shooters. Bring back Killzone!!!

I get where sony coming from under no circumstance would any company want one of there highest forms of yearly passive income be in the hands of your competitor. Now sony gotta bend the knee for cod. And that's not even mentioning all the other franchises Activision owns that will no longer be on sony platforms such as crash and spyro. This just sucks. I wish Microsoft would have a better strategy then forcing us to xbox buy buying everything.

Poor Sony

Too bad as ultimately this means less choice for consumers/gamers.

Is anyone else absolutely sick to death of hearing about this deal. The industry changes so quickly and constantly, I can’t see a world where for me personally the outcome will have any negative effect, whether it happens or not. All I know is, there are no plans to bring Diablo 4 to game pass… literally the one single thing I care about. Haven’t played cod since OG modern warfare on the 360 and have no plans to play another one any time soon/ever. Activision blizzard is so close to being complete meh at this point. And I know they have a library of old games that haven’t had sequels for a long time but let’s face it, MS have a history of disregarding those entirely and letting them rot

its ... i agree, its very odd how quickpy their language changed.

but at this point, i think they need to make peace with it. as much as i hate this deal potentially going through, theres still the EU thing and you know.

Anyone else tired of Sony crying like babies?

I have always had a Playstation and XBOX but Sony for like 20 years has always found ways to make features, BETA's and even games times exclusives for their consoles.

Looks good on them to get absolutely demolished by this and I don't feel bad at all.

This whole thing sucks for users of systems like Nintendo and PlayStation and even on pc like steam because Microsoft is greedy and taking over all the major studios like Bethesda and activision and taking over some of the biggest IPs like fallout, elder scrolls, call of duty, crash, Spyro, etc. Why are they not considered a monopoly? Now we won't see those properties on rival systems and even steam won't see them because they'll lock the games to Xbox launcher on windows. Valve should step in and say something too. This affects everyone. Microsoft is lying saying they're commited to keeping their games on rival consoles. That's not how exclusivity works when that's your business model. If you put your games on PlayStation what makes me wanna buy Xbox? They're lying.

I wish Valve, Nintendo and Sony would work together to quash Microsofts goals.

It's a silly change of position on the part of the cma, a 3 trillion dollar company willing to spend 70 billion on a single publisher can make "the math" work after pulling cod off of its biggest competitor get real. Whatever the case, this is the new reality Sony better be prepared for. Not to make a cod competitor, but to buy a publisher, an important one as a nuclear deterrent.

Questions... will Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard- King make Xbox a better platform for gamers in general? Will it make PlayStation a worse one? Maybe, answers are not/yes. Discuss.