Thursday, March 28

Sony sinks more than 12% after the purchase of Activision by Microsoft


The transaction will allow Microsoft to take ownership of popular video game sagas such as ‘Call of Duty’, ‘Warcraft’, ‘Diablo’, ‘Overwatch’ or ‘Candy Crush’ and incorporate the publisher’s catalog into its subscription system. Game Pass’, which recently reached the figure of 25 million subscribers.

The acquisition comes a year after Microsoft bought another prominent video game company such as Bethesda for 7,500 million dollars (6,571 million euros) and propelling the Redmond giant to third place in the world in the video game sector by revenue, behind China’s Tencent and Japan’s Sony.

Sony plans to publish the accounts of its third fiscal quarter, which runs from October to December and includes the Christmas campaign, on February 2.

Other video game companies, such as EA or Take Two, registered increases of 2.66% and 0.96%, respectively, while Nintendo titles yielded 0.22% and those of Ubisoft 0.56% before the possibility of further consolidation movements in the sector.



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