Add this to gamepass MS and i will stack another 3 years of gamepass, your move. ha

giving them the financial wherewithal to pay $190 billion to acquire Netflix.

Netflix, for sure, is worth more than that pile of feces Twitter, but $190 billion is an astronomical amount of money. The value must come mainly from the copyrights? There is the pool of existing subscribers, but subscribers are a finicky and erratic bunch. They will just stop paying if they aren't pleased. It's kind of funny to think that 190 billion dollars would buy you a fleet of 130-150 huge cruise ships, the likes of which the Royal Caribbean operates. Brand new ships, that is. Not that anyone would be able to build such an amount of ships.

Do it, doooooo it! Netflix doesn't know what they are even doing with these constant price raises and crying about shared accounts. Consolidate it under the banner of the MS!

He would probably find it better than the dumpster fire Netflix's productions are right now: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/youtube/images/3/37/Drinker.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200913213006

Microsoft (and many other tech companies) seem to have forgotten how just 20 years ago they were almost forcibly broken up over monopolistic practices. I guess they will have to be reminded of that again, soon.

mackintosh:

Microsoft (and many other tech companies) seem to have forgotten how just 20 years ago they were almost forcibly broken up over monopolistic practices. I guess they will have to be reminded of that again, soon.

Um, there's nothing monopolistic about Microsoft buying Netflix whatsoever. Disney, for example, already owns ABC/ESPN AND 20th Fox (not Faux News) AND Disney+ (of course) AND control of Hulu AND...that's someone who shouldn't be buying Netflix.

Games - Covered. Films etc - Covered. There's only music missing. Spotify next?

Stormyandcold:

Games - Covered. Films etc - Covered. There's only music missing. Spotify next?

MS had music, but they scrapped it.

I hope MS takes over NF soon, and the first thing they do is fire the entire The Witcher woke Creative team and stay truer (not true per se as some of the things that happen in the book may not be quite digestible to most, like the crap that happened to Ciri). Honestly, Voleth Meir was totally made up, why? Well, the creative team decided they'd needed a 'bad guy, or main villain' for the 2nd season, so up sprang Voleth Meir. eh, sorry for the segue, just needed to vent. 😳

uhm, i guess i prefer many small corporate overlords than one big corporate overlord, the end is always the same, the consumer get fcked and they get the money

The only problem I see for Activision and Microsoft in their mutually agreeable merger are government bureaucrats without enough to do. If this was a hostile takeover, I could see the FTC's role--but it isn't. Both companies desire it, Activision wishes to sell and Microsoft is ready to buy. Who else could buy Activision without running it into the ground? The problem with government agencies is that most of the time when their dictatorial actions cause problems, it's problems for consumers in the long run. Lately, Microsoft has bought a number of good game devs who could easily have gone broke had they not been scooped up by Microsoft. InXile and Obsidian are two of those companies.