The acquisition of Activision by Microsoft supported by one of the major players in the industry

Published at 15/10/2022 at 09:52 By bxakid

If the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has still not been concluded, here is a giant of the video game sector sees in this agreement a big plus for this industry, it is Take-Two Interactive, the parent company from Rockstar Games. We tell you everything.

It was in an interview with Yahoo that Strauss Zelnick , CEO of Take-Two Interactive, gave his thoughts on Microsoft's takeover of Activision Blizzard, and if we could have believed he feared for the future of his company, it is not so, quite the contrary! He supports this purchase which can only be beneficial.

Take-Two backs Microsoft's takeover of Activision Blizzard

In the middle of the video game industry, it is not uncommon to see certain studios being bought out by other companies, such as Bungie by Sony, or here Zynga by Take-Two for the sum of 13 billion dollars, and which allowed Strauss Zelnick's company to grow and create " an intellectual property powerhouse ".

We were already a leader in the console and PC space, and we believe we already had the best collection of intellectual property in that space. However, mobile is the fastest growing part of the interactive entertainment industry.

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It's not really a surprise, but the mobile market is indeed allowing Take-Two to reach more gamers around the world, and Zynga certainly has one of the biggest audiences thanks to its games like those of Farmville. On the other hand, we also have Microsoft, which is certainly in the process of making the coup of the century with the takeover of Activision Blizzard for the sum of 70 billion dollars, and if we could have believed that Take-Two was going to feel threatened, it is nothing . According to Strauss Zelnick, " every title is unique, so it doesn't compete with anything else and yet it's highly competitive in some way. In other words, we compete with everything and we are not in competition with anything. You cannot replace one of our titles with another title ".

So, instead of wanting to beat the competition at all costs, Take-Two prefers to focus on what it does and can do, in order to offer titles that consumers will love. If the games are qualitative, the public will necessarily follow.

When is GTA 6?

Unfortunately, however, no news about the highly anticipated GTA 6. However, according to some rumors, quite far-fetched it must be admitted, we may have the right to its first trailer on October 29, but This is a SIMPLE rumor and not official information from Rockstar Games or Take Two.

We're going to have to take our troubles patiently before we can discover the first real images of GTA 6, even if the huge leak did indeed come from the game. We imagine not without difficulty that the latter has changed a lot since all this time.

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