368: Is the Microsoft/Activision Deal Bad for Gamers?

Published: Jan. 24, 2022, 6:23 a.m.

Here are all of the questions we answer this week:
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\n- Is the Microsoft/Activision deal bad for gamers?
\n- Will Microsoft buy more publishers or be satisfied with what it has?
\n- How will Activision Blizzard change under Microsoft?
\n- Will PlayStation have more MP games if Call of Duty becomes an Xbox exclusive?
\n- Should Phil Spencer make Call of Duty an Xbox exclusive?
\n- What Activision IPs do you want brought back?
\n- Would Sony acquire Square-Enix to answer Microsoft\u2019s acquisitions?
\n- What publisher would make sense for Sony to acquire?
\n- Has Microsoft\u2019s Activision Blizzard acquisition upended Sony\u2019s plans?
\n- Would it be easier for Microsoft to acquire a Japanese studio now?
\n- What is the likelihood of publishers leasing their IPs to Sony?
\n- Will the PS4 be Sony\u2019s answer to the Xbox Series S in 2022?
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\nThanks as always to Shawn Daley for our intro and outro music. Follow him on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shawndaley
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