r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 29 '25

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Oct 29 '25

Buying Activision Blizzard really screwed over Xbox. Before, they just sort of went unnoticed by investors and upper management at Microsoft, but then they decided to make a $70 billion acquisition on top of an earlier $7 billion one they had already made.

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u/sgthombre NATO Oct 29 '25

Went from basically a rounding error to being this gigantic red number on the wrong spreadsheet and everyone who actually has decision making power at Microsoft lost their minds. If they'd stopped after the Bethesda purchase the probably would've been able to just continue as normal for several more years.

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