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Is Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal paying off? Xbox boss Asha Sharma says it's "hard to say how to think about those decisions"

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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/is-microsofts-69-billion-activision-blizzard-deal-paying-off-xbox-boss-asha-sharma-says-its-hard-to-say-how-to-think-about-those-decisions

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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It just eliminated competition, there is no incentive for them to use the IP to build new games. Gamers get fewer games. Microsoft doesn’t have to compete as much.

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  • wraithcoop@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    wait, so a company with hundreds of billions in revenue didn’t have financial KPIs set up?

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  • Visstix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s hard to say cause it would upset the shareholders

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I had to do something big. Because I could take all the credit if it worked, and none of the blame if not!

    -American CEO culture

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