Games Inbox: The dangers of Microsoft buying Activision, Mega Drive Mini 2, and Sonic Frontiers bet
The Monday letters page thinks video game remakes have got out of control, as one reader starts to worry about the cost of running a console.
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Big business We’re getting closer to the release of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 now and I imagine they’ll be the last ones to be published by Activision as a separate company. There are all these investigations into the buyout by Microsoft, but I can’t imagine any country saying no to the richest company in the world.
I know lots of people will think of it only as a good thing, simply because it means more games on Game Pass for them, but for me it is a very dangerous move that could unbalance the whole games industry. I don’t trust Microsoft to keep Call Of Duty multiformat after the investigations are over and I certainly don’t expect them to make any new franchises multiformat.
The worst thing for me though is how much this is encouraging other companies. We’ve already seen Embracer Group buying up tons of studios and games, even though no ordinary gamer has even heard of them, and I fear it’s only a matter of time until EA, Ubisoft, and Take-Two are claimed.
It’s either that or a merger but I don’t want to see GTA or FIFA become Xbox or PlayStation exclusives and nobody else should think that’s a good idea too. Unless they want to see only the richest companies dominate and every popular game only available on one console or the other.Godrick
Wasting time Totally agree that they should just ditch the Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic remake. I don’t know if anyone has played the original lately but it’s huge, at least 60 hours to see most of it, and it’s filled with lots of different
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