According to the latest news on January 19, Beijing time, Microsoft issued a blockbuster announcement yesterday evening to acquire Activision Blizzard, a publisher of game development and interactive entertainment content, for $95 per share in cash, with a total transaction amount of about $68.7 billion. This operation caused Activision Blizzard's stock price to soar!
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At the close of trading on Tuesday, Activision Blizzard shares soared 25.88% to $82.31, up more than 32% during the session. Microsoft shares closed down 2.43 percent at $302.65 on Tuesday.
Microsoft's old rival sony in the console space fell 9.6 percent in the Japanese stock market this morning, the biggest drop since March 2020. Sony's share price is currently down 7.2 percent.
It is understood that there was news that Sony will launch a subscription service similar to Microsoft's Xbox GamePass, code-named "Spartacus". Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox, said that Sony's potential move is only a testament to the future of the industry, not a smart decision by Microsoft.
In addition, Sony SIE is also actively carrying out a series of reforms, such as allowing the PS masterpiece "God of War 4" and "Uncharted Sea" that have been exclusive for many years to land on the PC platform, and from the current point of view, it has also achieved good sales and word of mouth. At present, "God of War 4" is on the steam country's hot selling list to beat "Monster Hunter: Rise", and the evaluation is also "rave reviews".