shocked the world. Just earlier, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in an all-cash transaction, equivalent to NT$189.54 million, the highest acquisition price in game history.
Compared with the acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda in 2020, it is only 7.5 billion US dollars. This time, it was acquired at a price of 95 US dollars per share, which is equivalent to a sky-high price of 68.7 billion US dollars; especially at this moment when Activision Blizzard is the most uneasy, this news can be said shocked the world.
According to Microsoft’s statement, Activision Blizzard will maintain independent operations following the transaction is completed, and the Activision Blizzard business will return to Microsoft Gaming’s top executive, Phil Spencer.
Microsoft has confirmed that it will provide as many Activision Blizzard games as possible on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass in the future, including “new games”, and will join the Microsoft xCloud cloud platform in the future.
In addition to Activision publishers, Activision Blizzard also includes Blizzard Entertainment, Beenox, Demonware, Digital Legends, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, King, Major League Gaming, Radical Entertainment, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, Toys for Bob, Treyarch and other forces .
The deal would make Microsoft the third-largest gaming company in the world, following Tencent and Sony.
Incidentally, Take-Two Interactive announced its acquisition of FarmVille developer Zynga for $12.7 billion only regarding a week ago, which was said to be the largest acquisition in gaming history, and was immediately crushed by Microsoft for $68.7 billion a week later.
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