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Despite Sony's attempts to maintain their dominance over most publishing rights and stop the deal through the FTC, Microsoft's purchase of Activision will go through. Sony signed on to have them publish Call of Duty games for them for 10 years. They declined to keep other Activision games going.
Expect Sony to start buying more publishers now, or maybe pay for even longer exclusives in an attempt to keep games off other platforms. I can see them trying to acquire Square first.
It's sometimes hard to see a bright side when huge companies eat each other up, but in this case Microsoft's vision for Activision and Blizzard games will be SO much better for consumers, that this is overall great news. Activision had turned into a CoD factory, putting all their eggs into that basket. MS will be way more into using their many IPs and putting out a wider variety of small/medium/large sized games to keep adding content to Game Pass.
The key is of course, the games have to be good. So far some of their Bethesda games have been duds. Starfield will be a huge test.
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