News Activision for $ale???

[Gold Member]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/09/us-vivendi-activision-sale-idUSBRE8650SZ20120709

Basically Vinendi, a French Telco giant, is looking to sell their 60% majority share of Activision in order to raise $10bn.

The interesting thing is that one company who has expressed interest in the acquisition of the share of Activision is Microsoft. They have the money and co-incidentally they also own one of the big 2 consoles that Activision publish on, the xbox 360. Now xbox already have a contract which allows xbox gamers priority access to Activision's flagship franchise, Call of Duty.

Doomsayers are suggesting that their is a possibility that if this sale were to pass, bearing in mind the next gen consoles are nearing, that one of the biggest multiplatform titles around could be released on one platform less in the near future... xbox (MS), playstation (SCE), PC (MS)....

Possible? Maybe.

Would you PS guys even care?

 

[pantskyle]

I wouldn't but I own both consoles and will with any future ones.

 

[Quivorir]

Forgive my ignorance, but wouldnt Blizzard be involved in this some how? My knowledge on who owns who and what not is pretty limited though

 

[MarcusP2]

Vivendi own Activision and Blizzard through a subsidiary, Activision Blizzard. They could sell Activision and not Blizzard, as far as I know.

 

[HBK619]

If Activision was COD and COD only then you'd say there's a huge chance of it happening.

But as it stands, Activision is too big for Microsoft to worry about. They have too many IP's and too many licenses for Microsoft to deal with when their focus is a small concentrated list of solid selling first party exclusive games while pushing as many consoles out as they can and using the exclusive DLC as a selling point for it. And they're certainly not going to pick and choose exclusives.

I'd expect someone else to be picking them up.

 

[Premiers04]

EA should do it and never release another CoD game, just for the lols