 A reader has some suggestions about how Sony should respond to the Activision Blizzard acquisition and get people excited about PS5 again. So it's all but confirmed that Microsoft has won its battle to buy Activision Blizzard and nothing is going to be quite the same in gaming again. I know some people try to downplay this, because they don't want to deal with the fact that things are going to change, but you don't pay $69 billion for the world's biggest third party publisher and not expect a bit of a upheaval. Nintendo won't care but obviously all eyes are on Sony. They weren't the ones opposing Microsoft in court, but they might as well have been given what was said and who it was affecting. Sony obviously understands the danger that Microsoft now poses to them and have given their all to try and block the deal. But now that they've failed what do they do next? A lot of fans are calling for a new showcase and new game announcements and I agree that would be the crowd-pleasing option. I really can't see it though. How is it going to look if they make it obvious they were keeping all this back until the acquisition question was settled? I'm not even sure that is what they've been doing. They've been acting so odd this year that I just can't work them out at all. What I would do, if I was in charge, is set up a regular schedule of mini-showcases from now till Christmas. Make them 10 minutes or so and focus on a different game or topic each time. Announce new titles – whatever the reason for keeping them secret they must have several they haven't revealed yet – but also give updates on PS Plus (especially Premium) and PlayStation VR2. I have no idea how people that bought either of those two things are feeling right now but I bet they're not happy. Astro Bot: Rescue Mission 2 has to happen straight away, at the very least, and I can't begin to imagine why it hasn't been talked about yet. Then they have to s){kind=link}
A reader has some suggestions about how Sony should respond to the Activision Blizzard acquisition and get people excited about PS5 again.
So it’s all but confirmed that Microsoft has won its battle to buy Activision Blizzard and nothing is going to be quite the same in gaming again. I know some people try to downplay this, because they don’t want to deal with the fact that things are going to change, but you don’t pay $69 billion for the world’s biggest third party publisher and not expect a bit of a upheaval.
Nintendo won’t care but obviously all eyes are on Sony. They weren’t the ones opposing Microsoft in court, but they might as well have been given what was said and who it was affecting. Sony obviously understands the danger that Microsoft now poses to them and have given their all to try and block the deal. But now that they’ve failed what do they do next?
A lot of fans are calling for a new showcase and new game announcements and I agree that would be the crowd-pleasing option. I really can’t see it though. How is it going to look if they make it obvious they were keeping all this back until the acquisition question was settled? I’m not even sure that is what they’ve been doing. They’ve been acting so odd this year that I just can’t work them out at all.
What I would do, if I was in charge, is set up a regular schedule of mini-showcases from now till Christmas. Make them 10 minutes or so and focus on a different game or topic each time. Announce new titles – whatever the reason for keeping them secret they must have several they haven’t revealed yet – but also give updates on PS Plus (especially Premium) and PlayStation VR2.