Heck yeah!!! There goes the golden parachute Bobby Kotick was counting on, hopefully he and his cronies may still see the inside of a jail cell with all the cases that mounted on.
Good. Now Activision can be left swimming in its own piles of horse manure.
Its going to fall apart one way or another, because they've systematically been milking every franchise and the customer is starting to walk away. If CoD falls apart, the company will die. Good riddance, have fun re-releasing your utter shite on mobile.
Not likely, if EA is still kicking, Activision Blizzard
King can keep going for multiple years on King in app purchases alone.
Also it is quite hypocritical from Sony to say this merger will limit the competition on the market, when Sony itself hoards game titles and studios for its own platform
The thing is size, compare the acquisitions from Sony to the ammount of stuff Microsoft has been hording of recent. Zenimax (Bethesda et al) alone is problably worth more and has more active properties than everything Sony bought.
And Sony is a Japanese company (with local branch) operating on US soil.
That's a very reductive view. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a subsidary group composed by an LLC based in California and an Inc. entity based in Japan. The parent company - Sony Corporation of America - as the name indicates is based in the US and part of the conglomerate based of Japan.
So it's not as simple as "it's a Japanese company" and besides, any company at this scale should be considered de facto global.
As for the FTC intervention, going by the argument that it's just because of sony (it's not), the FTC has to regulate and ensure fair competition in the US market, Sony is a major player in the US market so it really doesn't matter if they are American or not for the FTC intervention.
