Microsoft buy Activision Blizzard for $70B. Officially confirmed. Bobby Kotick leaving MS on 29th Dec.

Is there a comprehensive list of titles Activision actually own? Going through a lot of their 90s/00s catalogue and its made up of stuff they published but wouldn't necessarily now own.

For example GTA-clone True Crime. Wikipedia says the trademark expired back in 2014.

There are a few sources that seem to have reported variations of the following list. This is purely Activision:

Active:

Call of Duty
Crash Bandicoot
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (while not developed by Activision, the Sekiro game is actually owned by Activision)
Spyro
Skylanders
King’s Quest
Prototype
Geometry Wars

Inactive:

Guitar Hero
DJ Hero
Caesar
Gun
Hexen
Interstate ’76
Laura Bow Mysteries
Phantasmagoria
Pitfall
Police Quest
Quest for Glory
Singularity
Soldier of Fortune
Space Quest
Tenchu
TimeShift
Zork
True Crime

I personally think the Call of Duty, King and the Blizzard IPs are the big paydays. Guitar Hero if revived correctly. Crash and Spyro could bring much needed platformer's to the Xbox catalogue.

A new Tenchu game would be fantastic. I think they own the Blur IP too.

Would love a new Tenchu game :wub:

New versions Of soldier of fortune? Excellent and shocking back in the day.

Infographic of ongoing, upcoming and rumoured projects that Xbox, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard are working on

Microsoft have definitely sorted their first party issue haven't they :lol:

LOL at that Activision row:

COD, COD, COD, COD, COD, COD. :lol:

Incredible amount of content on the way.

Gamepass ultimate is an incredible service.

Tomous wrote:Microsoft have definitely sorted their first party issue haven't they

Just a smidge :shock:

I do wonder if EA are too big to be involved in all this. Bioware would be an insane studio to add to the list, and EA are in cahoots with MS on Game Pass. I think they'd be in the same ballpark as Acti-Blizz price-wise though, so no chance of that happening any time soon. I certainly don't think Sony could make a play for them as they don't have the money.

I suspect it would have to be a Google or an Amazon that would be the ones with the budget make a play for EA now.

Tomous wrote:Microsoft have definitely sorted their first party issue haven't they

This is what happens when people take the piss out of MS for weak first-party support. They decide "strawberry float it, we're buying everyone".

Personally speaking, but there's not a lot on that list that appeals to me in all honesty. Perfect Dark, Fable, Everwild, whatever The Coalition has brewing... That's about it right now. Obviously there are a lot of unannounced projects so I hope they are more varied and different.

Wait Microsoft own Stoic?

Herdanos wrote:Wait Microsoft own Stoic?

No that row is third party devs published by Microsoft

Moggy wrote:
gaminglegend wrote:Are they any figures for Game Pass out of interest, wondering if (I imagine) it runs at a loss currently, and I think I’ve read before MS don’t make profit from console sales so the price for the service must be due an increase.

And I expect to counter balance people using the pass we may see much more micro transactions included in releases?

They have 25 million subscribers. I think it's about £8 a month, not counting the ultimate version with Gold included. That's £2,400,000,000 per year.

In reality it'll be less due to offers/people not subscribing every month.

But it's safe to say it is bringing in a lot of income.

Interesting to see the splits given to studios and how they decide what amount goes to whom

gaminglegend wrote:
Moggy wrote:
gaminglegend wrote:Are they any figures for Game Pass out of interest, wondering if (I imagine) it runs at a loss currently, and I think I’ve read before MS don’t make profit from console sales so the price for the service must be due an increase.

And I expect to counter balance people using the pass we may see much more micro transactions included in releases?

They have 25 million subscribers. I think it's about £8 a month, not counting the ultimate version with Gold included. That's £2,400,000,000 per year.

In reality it'll be less due to offers/people not subscribing every month.

But it's safe to say it is bringing in a lot of income.

Interesting to see the splits given to studios and how they decide what amount goes to whom

It sounds like they do it on a case by case basis for each developer, so they can tailer deals to devs preferences.

This is far and away the best take I’ve seen on this whole thing :lol:

JT986M2 wrote:Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (while not developed by Activision, the Sekiro game is actually owned by Activision)

Pretty sure that while Activision published the game, the IP belongs to FromSoftware.

Captain Kinopio wrote:This is far and away the best take I’ve seen on this whole thing

That’s an interesting perspective and not one I’ve seen much people talk about from analysing the announcement post and Phil Spencer’s interview. When we talk about the competition Microsoft have, we tend to think of it as Xbox vs PlayStation vs Nintendo, but the size of Sony’s PlayStation business and Nintendo is minute compared to Microsoft in totality. As a company, they are in competition with Apple, Meta and Alphabet, who each “own” the mobile devices, social and search industries respectively. They are the one giant in their space, and Microsoft aren’t so much looking to compete with Sony and Nintendo as they are looking to simply own gaming full stop. Be the only giant in that space to compete with those other trillion-dollar companies in their own niche.

gooseberry fool, I’m now absolutely convinced EA is next.

Captain Kinopio wrote:This is far and away the best take I’ve seen on this whole thing

Yeah, liked this. ‘We the big daddy, so we own this lot now, byeeeee’. :slol:

Who would have thought MS would have spent gooseberry fool loads of effort carefully crafting those releases, nails it.

His impression of Microsoft walking in having done is absolutely perfect :lol:

I think I first felt this ‘We ain’t playing anymore’ attitude from MS after the first Kinect conference. I’m not sure if I said as much on here but after watching that I got the sense MS were on a ‘We will force this’ kind of rampage. Now the way that turned out obviously ended up farcical for them, but the way Bosman describes how he sees it above just reminded of that post show feeling from way back.

Microsoft buy Activision Blizzard for $70B. Officially confirmed. Bobby Kotick leaving MS on 29th Dec.

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