Oh, it’s gonna happen. These are just the first dominoes in a long-term wave of studio acquisitions. It’s not so much consolidation as it is MS and Sony preparing their ultimate exit from the console business to become streaming services. Cloud gaming is the future of the game industry. Once broadband speeds make game…

It’s not so much consolidation as it is MS and Sony preparing to get out of the hardware business and become streaming services. Cloud gaming is the future of the game industry - the PS5 and Series X will likely be the last (or second to last) console generation. In 10-15 years the Playstation and Xbox will be purely s…

This. Microsoft and Sony both see the writing on the wall and understand that cloud computing is the long-term future of the game industry. As internet speeds get better and cloud gaming becomes viable for most people, consumers will see less value in owning an expensive box that sits in one room of their house and…

The weird thing is how many gamers are cheering for this and saying “nya-nya, your system is gonna lose _____ now”. Console exclusivity and industry consolidation is bad for all of us, regardless of which system we own. We want these companies to always be competing for our business and improving their products, not…

Not really. I mean Destiny is a decent get for Sony, but compared to Activision’s portfolio it’s nothing. The Activision deal was $70 billion and the Bungie deal is $3.6 billion. Not the same ballpark.

If any of the Big Four media oligarchs (Disney, AT&T Time Warner, ComcastUniversal, ViacomCBS) enter the gaming space, I actually think it will be either AT&T or Comcast. But not by buying Sony or Microsoft. They don’t want to get into the hardware business (which has poor profit margins) long-term. The future of the…

Nintendo is a publicly traded company (with a much smaller market cap than either Sony or Microsoft). So in theory, either one of them could buy it. However I’m not sure either one would really want to. Nintendo’s gaming business is just structured so differently than Sony’s or Microsoft’s that it’s practically not…

This is a good point. Sports games have a very broad audience and are an important part of professional leagues’ overall branding and marketing strategies. The NFL doesn’t just want to make license revenue off Madden, they also want kids who play Madden to become NFL fans. Therefore they want as many players to have…

Yeah I mean, Destiny is a nice get for Sony, but Bungie is a minnow and Activision is a whale. These two acquisitions are not even in the same ballpark.

Seriously. If anyone doubts this, they need only look at EA. EA has had a monopoly on most sports licenses for decades, and they constantly churn out glorified roster updates masquerading as new games every year. Can you imagine how much better Madden would be if they still had another series like 2K to compete…

Console fanboyism is the stupidest thing in existence. Even if you legitimately believe your preferred console is vastly superior to the other, you shouldn’t be rooting for it to achieve market dominance, because doing so would be rooting against your own interests as a consumer. Competition breeds innovation,…

What the actual fuck is wrong with you?

Am I the only person who hated MGS4? I seriously think it is by far the worst game in the (main) series.

That’s not what a pyramid scheme is. The way pyramid schemes work is that the scammer gets a percentage of the registration fees his recruits/marks get from recruiting other people into the scheme, and so on and so on. Pyramid schemes don’t make money based on fluctuations in the market value of the actual…

NFT's are actually a pump-and-dump scheme, not a pyramid scheme. 

I don't need to watch a 2 hour video to understand that NFT's are a scam. I figured that out the first time I heard of them.

NFT’s are a scheme, but they're not a pyramid scheme. They are actually a pump-and-dump scheme, which is different.

Ok, people. Y’all need to learn the difference between specific types of scams. NFT’s are not a pyramid scheme (which involves convincing marks to recruit other marks and then kicking a percentage of their recruitment fees up to the scammer). Nor are they a Ponzi scheme (which involves taking money from marks to put…

Nah, a pyramid scheme is where you convince people they can make money by recruiting others into the front business for the pyramid scheme. NFT's are closer to a Ponzi scheme.

Social media is one of the worst things humanity has ever invented.