You can see the writing on the wall for FairGame$ and Marathon from a mile away, and this can't possibly instill confidence in the people still working there.

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[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if Microsoft's shopping spree induced FOMO in Sony and they ended up buying shit. Sony already had the best studios but they chased live service for no reason.

[–] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

no reason

money

[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So how much did they make?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Negative hundreds of millions of dollars. But the point still stands that they believed this was a rational way to make a boatload of money. With hindsight, we're all geniuses, but yes, this was a stupid move.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.

had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.