![]() Though Microsoft hasn’t released exact sales numbers for its more recent Xbox consoles, it is widely thought that the PlayStation has outsold them by a significant margin.īut without Call of Duty, just one of many giant games properties that Microsoft now owns, PlayStation is left even more reliant on its own studios to create games that people want to play. Its main competitor Sony has an exceptional stable of talented developers making games for its PlayStation 5 console – the latest of which, Insomniac Games, was bought in 2019 for “just” $299m. This latest acquisition – the biggest in video-game history by some margin, more than 17 times what Disney paid for Marvel – shows beyond doubt that Microsoft is extremely committed to dominating the video-game market, now and in the future. Photograph: Joe Maher/Getty Images for Vanguardīut Zenimax is nothing compared with this week’s news that Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, for nearly $70bn. ![]() Call of Duty: Vanguard launch party in London 2004. ![]()
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