In recent years, video game fashion has clearly concentrated. Just days after Zynga was acquired by Take-Two; Microsoft breaks all records by offering Activision Blizzard. No ? Yes.
The announcement is pretty crazy and yet everything is highly official: Microsoft hopes to be able to afford giant Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion or $60.5 billion. Just that. The press release is symbolic and a reminder of its magnitude Move that nobody saw coming:
The creators of Call of Duty, Warcraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, StarCraft and more reinvigorating Team Xbox
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If the transaction is not challenged by the authorities responsible for arbitrating the case, some of the most bankable licenses in the video game industry will fall into the hands of the maker and could take Xbox Game Pass to new heights.
The publishing house, which is still under attack after numerous and repeated allegations, is thus becoming one of the future cornerstones of Microsoft’s strategy. However, for shareholders who have remained loyal to Activision Blizzard, the Redmont-based company will be pleased as it will buy back each share for the not-so-modest sum of $95.
The deal is obviously going to be a lengthy (and potentially painful) one, as Activision Blizzard’s CEO currently expects it to close “sometime by the end of next fiscal year, which is before June 30, 2023.”
What you cas Kotick?
And as long as we’re talking about numbers, the journalist Stephen Totilo did not fail to underline what Bobby Kotick, who has been under particular strain since last summer, would receive in the event of an “external takeover”: $292 million. i.e. 257 million dollars, just for the Kotick case.
A few days ago, on the occasion of the calendar, the head of the Xbox branch, Phil Spencer, called for a real cultural change on the part of Activision Blizzard, a change that some will scrutinize all the more closely, as Microsoft from here a few months to the new to become manager…
But where will the builder stop?!
