Microsoft announced Jan. 18 that it plans to acquire Activision Blizzard, a publisher of game development and interactive entertainment content, for a total of approximately $68.7 billion in cash.
This should be something that many people never expected, it is simply outrageous. If there is news in advance, your own purse will be biu these days:
You know, Microsoft's fiscal 2021 revenue is 168.1 billion US dollars, and net profit is 61.2 billion. $68.7 billion represents 53 percent of Microsoft's cash reserves, but is only 3 percent of Microsoft's valuation.
Such a large-scale acquisition has made Microsoft the third largest game company in the world, after Tencent and Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Microsoft already has IP such as Call of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Wolf, StarCraft, etc.; in the future, Activision Blizzard's games will join the Xbox console and the PC version of XGP, and the total number of XGP users has since exceeded 25 million.
Some netizens said that the value is Activision and IP, and Blizzard is a giveaway.