Is the Microsoft/Activision Deal Bad for Gamers?

Episode 368,   Jan 24, 2022, 06:23 AM

On Throwdown Your Questions Ep. 368, we answer questions about Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard.

Here are all of the questions we answer this week:

- Is the Microsoft/Activision deal bad for gamers?
- Will Microsoft buy more publishers or be satisfied with what it has?
- How will Activision Blizzard change under Microsoft?
- Will PlayStation have more MP games if Call of Duty becomes an Xbox exclusive?
- Should Phil Spencer make Call of Duty an Xbox exclusive?
- What Activision IPs do you want brought back?
- Would Sony acquire Square-Enix to answer Microsoft’s acquisitions?
- What publisher would make sense for Sony to acquire?
- Has Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition upended Sony’s plans?
- Would it be easier for Microsoft to acquire a Japanese studio now?
- What is the likelihood of publishers leasing their IPs to Sony?
- Will the PS4 be Sony’s answer to the Xbox Series S in 2022?

Thanks as always to Shawn Daley for our intro and outro music. Follow him on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shawndaley

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