was in the UK this week for talks with the Competition and Markets Authority, following a European Commission hearing in which it defended the proposed deal amid concerns it could harm competition, particularly if it were to make games like Call of Duty exclusive to its platform.
The CMA is in the middle of an in-depth investigation into the acquisition, while it also faces challenges from the European Commission and the US FTC. Although the deal would be by far Microsoft’s biggest ever acquisition, the corporation makes far more from non-gaming products such as Windows, Office and its cloud services.asked Spencer what would happen to Xbox should such an important acquisition be blocked by regulators, to which he responded that the gaming business was not dependent on its completion.
“This is an important acquisition for us. It’s not some linchpin to the long term — Xbox will exist if this deal doesn’t go through,” he said. Much of regulators’ concerns around the Activision Blizzard deal have focused on how it could allegedly
Obviously...
Right of course not you don't want any of these publishers your just saving them I see gotcha
Sure
'Welcome to the club, Xbox!' - Sega, Atari, SNK, NEC
I think there's enough people that already make fun of Jamie without us needing to jump on the bandwagon. Dude clearly hasn't known us long or would know we've been called pony's for mocking xbots and xbox in the past too. Even pissing off popular YouTubers. 😂😂
Phil Spencer will be kicked
Where's the news saying that Sony needs COD profit to make its franchises? You're not going to talk?
„Long-term” is his favorite word. Still waiting for that e3…🤡
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Feels like the deal getting blocked would only propel MS to take an aggressive approach. Which hopefully means better quality of games = better competition in industry = good games overall. Win win.
Xbox will invest in Lawyers for the deal
If they don't buy them then they will die Activision and blizzard are literally destroying all of there IPs but at the end of the day I really don't care if the acquisition goes through I really want Activision to crash and burn
The fact he had to say that say enough lol. Xbox will turn into Sega lol.
Oh he was asked by The Times, that explains why he was in a position of having to answer a stupid idea.
I doubt they will sale, and I don’t want the deal to go through ABK we still need Xbox sony will have way to much dominance regardless we need Xbox but they don’t need to buy up everything
Did no one read the article that started this 'Microsoft selling Xbox' rumor? They literally couldn't even name a source. I shouldn't be surprised that Twitter jumped on this so eagerly, but FFS, this is seriously all speculation.
Yes, I believe if MS pull out of the console business, the Xbox brand would still exist. Their first party games will go to PC and will continue to push PC Game Pass. Nothing to lose on MS side, I believe.
Microsoft should focus more on making azure work properly. The system at my current job runs on azure and it went down for an entire 24 hour period
So Xbox is gone. Cause we know for a fact that Phill Spencer is the big lier on the gaming industry.
He doesn’t know how to manage his video industries well, studios that have.
Maybe not buying companies then make them exclusive is a pretty bad idea just saying
I would hope so. Xbox has some of the best IP's going with Halo, Gears, Fable and not to mention Bethesda so Xbox is here to stay and will be awesome again
I think he's bluffing. They leave gaming if they don't get their way? BS
Perhaps XBox will entirely allocate their platform to Nvidia and become just a streaming service?
Then why are they acting like it's life or death to these regulators?
I just want Bobby Kotic gone
All this guy does is lie so who knows what is the truth
ofcourse lol. the reason they need that is just because they desperately need to keep up with sony first party output as quickly as possible. its been 2 years already. they has money, tech, more studios than sony. phil spencer need talking less. they need proper management.
Xbox hasn’t been on top since 360. It’s over
Andy Robinson “I know a lot of industry pundits think MS selling off Xbox is a genuine possibility should this be blocked” That literally makes zero sense… why? Think of how many people would lose their jobs “over night” because of that, you can say the same thing for PS.🤡🤦♂️
Based on Phil’s picture used for this tweet, his reaction was “who asked this dumbass question?” Or somewhere along these lines.
Yeah no. $600b sector of Microsoft racking on multi-billions of $ in revenue every year is not going to be sold off.
Xbox is going to turn into Sega if they don’t get their shit together
I have a feeling if Sony tried to acquire a big company they’d be attacked by Microsoft even if they literally keep all the games non-exclusives.
They would have to pay 3 billion if the deal flops. Makes sense why they’re desperate right now.
Given they have reported a higher MAU than PS ever has, Xbox isn't going anywhere.
Xbox could have just focused on their own IPs they seemingly abandoned in favour of the same three tired franchises, namely Halo, Gears and Forza. Sequels are fine, but when you have only three major IPs, it gets tiresome real quick. Where’s Conker or Banjo? Oh but SOT lmao 💀
Do they exist now? Sony and Nintendo is out there but Xbox? Whatbdontheycjave
BlindKungFu phil also lies alot
I very much dislike the correct spelling of 'linchpin' in this article. They should say 'lynchpin' which is also correct but is spelled cooler.
i mean... i would hope so lmao
Good that means this deal shouldn't happen as microsoft doesn't need activision and this entire deal is just out of greed
Maybe apple 🤍🤍🤍🤍tim_cook
Xbox needs some actual money invested into third party studios, not some billion dollar company buy out. Invest money to do a big platformer that rivals Horizon, Ghost of Tushima, or Spiderman.
M-hm...it's not like they're wasting billions on games nobody buys!
I can see them getting out of hardware and just focus on Gamepass and cloud. Hardware was never MS's strong suit. They've been positioning themselves for this ultimate switchover for years, imo.
Ese estúpido de XboxP3 dice una cosa,luego otra. Ya mejor que hablen los de Microsoft ellos son los verdaderos jefes,de todo xbox
Lol this is pretty obvious a long term for the game pass there betting everything on it
It’s not like he’s going to tell y’all Xbox is toast after this deal flops.
Was anyone thinking otherwise
This case presented by Microsoft say other wise
Rather they put more investment into the current companies and get some decent exclusives
PlayStation better.
This guy seems to say the opposite of what people would want to hear about the Xbox’s future
Xbox will eventually back out of the console market. Nobody has that terrible of a year and survives. It will be named dreamcast 2. They'll only make games just like Sega.
Que bom que não tirou do contexto hem
Remember when he said that about Halo Infinite potentially flopping? lol
Traduzindo, é tudo ou nada pelo Cod.
The way their focused is misplaced will be though
I thought Xbox going to be sold if the Deals gets blocked?! What a shitshow this site is.
What a strange thing to say. 🫥
Yep they can buy many more studio's with that kind of money XboxP3 at the end of the day they can also pay the studio for full exclusive games.. do not need to really own the studio
XBox
Yeah deal is not happening now
Ponies right now
Words of a desperate man fighting for his job and brand.
Finally the correct wheels are starting to turn.
Sony: Sem COD eu não consigo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Then Phil turns around and says 'Microsoft will remain irrelevant in mobile gaming without ABK'.....So this makes the ABK deal not just 'some linchpin' but The Linchpin to the long term for Microsoft in mobile gaming.
Ahora cambia el discurso...algo se huele
No shit it will keep on existing, Xbox is not on life support here. I just wish they'd actually invest in what they already have instead of buying companies in the hope that they'll just run themselves
LOL, say bye bye to that deal, xtwats 😂😂😂😂🤣✌️
I wonder if Phil could of made a deal to make cod exclusive for 5 years. Could regulators block suck a deal. tomwarren bdsams
Or... will it...?
Wow, what a groundbreaking statement. Now to ask Sony! We need to know!! Will they exist if Xbox doesn't buy Activision I'm scared
Of course it would exist. They had huge plans before this even came to light. I guess this will be the non-news news this week. Ugghhhhh
Let me save you a click with the context. “The Times asked Spencer what would happen to Xbox should such an important acquisition be blocked by regulators, to which he responded that the gaming business was not dependent on its completion.”
Even if they go third party, I still won’t buy their games on PlayStation.
Well, if that is the case, why not just drop this whole acquisition?
Hey Phil
If this acquisition fail, it will fail ActiBlizzard as well, not Xbox
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This dude just insulted regulators by saying they are stupid when it comes to the gaming industry
Why does this need to be said at all? I'm confused
Xbox has so many studios under its wing, it literally needs to focus only on making killer first-party exclusives, not on buying even more.
Yet they're acting like it's life and death by making themselves look frail and tiny while also having Activision mock Playstation
This almost seems like an admission that the deal is in trouble....
I don't know how they exist as is , they have to be a drain on Microsoft
I’m more upset I can’t get to play DOOM and TES on PlayStation anymore. Now I’d have to buy an Xbox or invest in a PC.
Was anyone even questioning the existence of xbox somehow if this deal gets blocked..?
Oh boi the damage control begins, time to get the salty tear bots prepared 😬
Holy shit at the video game media biased talk about click bait garbage 🗑 why didn’t you quote what he said before this quote!
Xbox has already shown MASSIVE momentum this generation, even without and before the ABK announcement. I don't think there's ever been a better time to be in the Xbox ecosystem!
Microsoft is the type of parent that if their child didn’t make it to the NFL, they'd buy another parent's child that’s already in the NFL...
This is the last console they will ever make.
Phil Spencer should also stop bluffing with his preservation talk and remove the setup DRM from his consoles
Microsoft should stop buying studios and let Xbox focus on being a third party publisher instead.... No more new console should be made from them....
Xbox owns Elder Scrolls, Minecraft, Fallout and dozens of other prominent franchises like Halo, Gears and Doom. It would be quite embarrassing if they “disappear”.
Jajajajaja with the way the clown XboxP3 lies 🤥 you know Xbox is failing so bad right now Microsoft is planning on taking Xbox out back behind the woodshed to have it 🎵 Sega'd 🎵
Less talk, more games Phil.
Don't look at comments section 😂🙏🏻
If it didn’t go through, couldn’t Xbox just pay Bethesda for exclusives? At a lot less the price?
The fact that this is in doubt is pretty bad for them
I've got 69 billion reasons why this is not the case.
Well maybe make some fucking games yall keep buying up shit then sit around with your thumbs up your ass. The best you could do so far was a mid halo and a forza 4 copy paste into Mexico 🤦♂️
There is a difference between competing and existing. Stadia existed until it didn’t. Sonystagnatesgaming
Liar.
If Xbox was run by the people that run PlayStation, it would be on top. I would immediately scrap the current hardware, scrap the Xbox branding, and start over fresh with a fresh new attitude towards building top quality hardware. The current Xbox branding is SHIT.
Deal is dead. Not even Microsoft is confidant anymore. They always send Phil out to gather support from Xbox fans.
Whats probly happened was that during there recent discussions in the UK didn't go as well as they thought we know that made it sound as if gamepass was going to nitindo but the next day they fixed there statement to saying only cod for all we know they mislead nintendo
The 'Lies of P' isn't just a game!
They could start by fostering the studios they already have and focus on making high quality original games rather than buying major third party studios and turning their once multiplat games into gamepass fodder
He was directly asked what it means if the deal is blocked, it can't really be answered in any other way 🙂
Ben sony y arrive très bien avec moins de studios donc ils devraient y arriver... Quoique...Ca sent le sapin et à la limite de disparaître sans ce rachat d'apres leur boss...😂
Xbox is doing a good job convincing long time Xbox gamers that maybe they're not the best choice of console. 'We don't have any games!' 'Look how terrible we're doing!', String of large releases running worse on Xbox consoles. I love 'my series x' but MS isn't giving me hope.
So they have all these money and instead investing in their own studios and let them be creative they just want to buy the most popular game on the market cause they don't have a fucking clue how to run a gaming division
Playstation are weak, they say they will be dead without one Fps game🤣
Sega also exists. I don’t believe anything the Xbox directive says these days. They lied way to often
Just make your own games or Xbox can die.
Should've just put that money into getting worthwhile games out the door. The Series X is dry AF.
How much of his words have been proven actually trustworthy
Why do some of you act so hurt about Microsoft spending THEIR money..ya act like it's your money they are spending 😂😂
Then… Why the heck are they so desperate?
They had more studios than Sony even before the Bethesda acquisition. If they can’t make that work I don’t know what to tell you.
Make games, not controllers
Xbox will outright buy the Call of Duty IP if the acquisition is blocked. Mark these words. And that'll be worse for Sony in the long run...
E.A is looking for a buyer
So many on this thread still think console is all that relavent to MS. Consoles helped launch GP but PC, mobile and connected devices will carry it forward. I expect MS to leave the console market, maybe not after this gen and we'll see GP on Nintendo and 3rd party consoles.
Uhh...yeah? Did people expect them to suddenly vanish?
Si no es una pieza clave, entonces para que quieren AB?
It should never have existed, PC, Switch and Playstation are the big boy communities now
Xbox is a strong brand and it has a very strong IP's, they just need a good management.
reality sinking in maybe?
he should just focus on mismanaging all their other acquisitions
Exist.... Weird word choice
The mere fact that Phil Spencer is mentioning the long-term viability of Xbox, is telling me that Microsoft wants to pull out of the console business.
That confidence sounds shaky? 👀
With MS already owning over 2 dozen studios, including a third party publisher that they already removed from PS and Nintendo, there’s no reason why they can’t exist.
They can barely manage their own studios let alone 10+ new ones
The only game I'm really bothered about losing on PlayStation is future Fallout games, but the next one seems a long way off anyway.
They kinda need this deal though realistically, xbox is irrelevant in the console space outside of the US and PS needs some real competition to keep them in line.
Sounds like he's losing hope. If only more time went into making Xbox a worthwhile console and service, then maybe they wouldn't have to buy a major developer just to make ends meet.
LOL really must not be much news this morning
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Come on, he can't tell the truth, Remember Xbox can't compete without ABK said Phil... Gamepass helps sales... If this doesn't go through he needs to get fired. He as taken the sole reason to own an Xbox away. and yet his blind sheep followers cheerlead him on.
Microsoft should focus more on their problems before considering making an acquisition of this scale. Their management of their studios is ridiculously bad.
What do you expect him to say lol
Why not invest those millions into the studios you already have instead of trying to buy out the competition 🤷🏿♂️
Lies
Great insight there Phil.
Xbox is like Battlefield they want a piece of the cake but get nothing..... at the moment, maybe they will learn in the future...Battlefield also exists...
So they're buying PlayStation from Sony after proving they couldn't compete without major exclusives for 20 years... Cool
It can exist and it prosper bigger than ever even, if it had a better management where such enormous amount of money were invested into making good games.
PS fanboys acting like Xbox will die with out ABK lol. Getting ABK its a sweet +. Not life or dead. Same as PS can survive with out COD.
Obviously. Only a fanboy would think otherwise.
Why was this even in doubt?
Jimbo got them wondering about the future of the Xbox brand LMAO
Phil you make it out to be all end all if you can't go through with the deal 😮💨
Well. Yeah. If it’s blocked, literally nothing changes
They probably need to make some decent first party titles then yeah?
They will exist and remain 3rd place
Feels like an oddly specific thing to say...
Make some games instead of begging Jim Ryan for mercy.
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