So this is from last financial year, not the current one, so nothing to do with this thread topic. You also forgot to add that that loss was caused/driven by various post-merger expenses. Eg. Redundancy packages etc.
- Microsoft bought Activision for $75 billion.
- Couldn't even make their games exclusive to sell more hardware or subs.
- Now Activision is at a $1.3 billion operating loss, on top of the $75 billion they spent.
Such financial WIZARDS indeedAnd such "gaming influencers"
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I own lots of MS stock also and they don't give a shit how the division performs. The only reason MS is in gaming is to make themselves look cool and not look like a Cisco etc. MS is not a sexy stock, in fact people use it every day and hate them.It might surprise you but I’m heavily invested in Microsoft stock, so please don’t use the end of last FY merging costs. Get back to us next quarter after the launch of this CoD and merger costs completely done with.
They now own the most successful video game franchise in history, you need to let that go now and embrace this Microsoft first party title nothing but peace and love
HUGE over 50% of Xbox players have now launched CoD in the past week, back to peak 360 lads. #WINNING.
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According to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker, on Oct 23rd, 19% of US active Xbox Series players and 18% of US active PlayStation 5 players launched Call of Duty HQ. On October 28th, 52% of active XBS players and 34% of active PS5 players did so. Both were all-time highs for Call of Duty HQ.
"wait till next quarter" even after 4 quarters. You sure that doesn't sound like moving goalposts?It might surprise you but I’m heavily invested in Microsoft stock, so please don’t use the end of last FY merging costs. Get back to us next quarter after the launch of this CoD and merger costs completely done with.
They now own the most successful video game franchise in history, you need to let that go now and embrace this Microsoft first party title nothing but peace and love
HUGE over 50% of Xbox players have now launched CoD in the past week, back to peak 360 lads. #WINNING.
Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)
According to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker, on Oct 23rd, 19% of US active Xbox Series players and 18% of US active PlayStation 5 players launched Call of Duty HQ. On October 28th, 52% of active XBS players and 34% of active PS5 players did so. Both were all-time highs for Call of Duty HQ.
Eerily similar to "wait till next year."
The time period doesn't matter. The point stays valid.
Company i work from was acquired by one giant from Blackrock (who owned us previously) and we are almost 2 full fiscal years after it happened and over this summer they were finalising people element of the merger - made approx 5000 of staff redundant (in total they have let go over 7k people since the merger), some with 10+ under the belt, so had to pay out big bill for redundancy packages. This how it usually works when you go through M&A with giant companies."wait till next quarter" even after 4 quarters. You sure that doesn't sound like moving goalposts?
What do you expect next quarters? Activision's incremental update is over this quarter. From next quarter onwards, apart from one-off spikes, it will be flat. Just like it is flat right now for the Xbox + Zenimax divisions.
Oh it matters a lot…but it waste of time to even trying to explain to you, when you come here with your agenda in mind just to shit on everything MS. This is topic about how big of success was latest COD release. We should be happy that good video games are still popular and this guarantee next instalment - it is not Concord (sorry had to do it).
Changing ownership of IP, ultimately all COD devs are now working for MS - it is a big change, yeah it is still COD - best in years - but it is not just a copy of previous games either and a big chunk of dev cost was covered by MS. Are you preparing your ground that you can say that Concord wasn’t a Sony game? So e people are listing Stellar Blade but ultimately it is not, Sony doesn’t own the studio, doesn’t own the IP, just paid for development - after deal expires devs are free to do whether they won’t with it. While COD is now fully MS series/game, fully controlled by MS, they will see COD revenues in their reports as a part of Xbox Division numbers.
It's quintessentially the "Courtney love" of gaming. Everyone's had a go on it, we all know the score.
If i lose $10 in the street but find another $10 down the sofa later did i really lose $10 at all?
Considering that COD is one of the hottest games every year and it launched on Game Pass, and BO6 is reviewing so well, I'm pretty confident that Xbox player-count will be higher.
Glad to see you've come round
You actually gained an additional $20!
I never raised an objection to the possibility of Xbox having more players than PS5.Glad to see you've come round
My main objection was extas1 saying that >50% of PC players are coming from Game Pass.
Just messing mate.I never raised an objection to the possibility of Xbox having more players than PS5.
Now, when it comes to actual sales - the most meaningful metric - I'm equally confident that the story would be opposite. PC > PS5 (or PS5 > PC) > Xbox. The viability of only having higher player count and the lowest sales remains to be seen in the future, as we discussed before.
No, Mat is talking about CoD HQ, which isn't just BO6, it is MWII, III and Warzone. Two days before the launch of BO6 it was 19%, now it's 52% that launched CoD HQ. Not sure what "daily active players" means. Previously the highest for XBS was 34% in August.
Why wouldn't people care about that? That's the only thing that matters. Everything else is a vanity metric - especially "number of players."
Don't forget this chestnut that led to pretty much everyone at 343 getting the boot.Why wouldn't people care about that? That's the only thing that matters. Everything else is a vanity metric - especially "number of players."
This game is just a reskinned cold war every cod game recycle the same maps every year
Why wouldn't people care about that? That's the only thing that matters. Everything else is a vanity metric - especially "number of players."
A game selling like this? You can be sure that they're all happy, Sony, MS, Steam all making bank.This really worked in your head before you typed it up?
The party taking 70% of the revenue on PlayStation, and 80% on Steam is the losing party?
Ah yes, everyone knows the typical longevity for a Call of Duty game is one month
Gamepass subscribers pay money for the subscription.
Absolutely. COD is one of those franchises that probably would never be canned. It prints money.
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Halo was huge for about a week. If you give away the multiplayer for free then of course people will check it out, unfortunately they checked out straight after.
I don't believe them.
Next year will be the biggest ever. Then the year after that. Then after that.
Yes, records can never be broken, once set
Next year they’ll be launching on Switch 2 day 1. Very possible we get ‘biggest ever’ PR.
Also possible that annoys a number of folks
Growth!I don't believe them.
Next year will be the biggest ever. Then the year after that. Then after that.
Girth!
I had to Google what Freegunners was. No one liked that game, silly chicken.Some of the Freegunner's mental gymnastics in here...
Gotta show your worth in girth.
One of the Activision CEO's came out the other day saying nothing has changed since being acquired by Microsoft. This would be the equivalent of calling Sony a great publisher of "GAAS games" because Bungie's next game, Marathon, is a huge hit. No, Bungie is just a great developer that happened to be bought by Sony.
