Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard!

What do you do with a stock market valuation of $2.3 trillion and $140 billion in cash reserves? Satya Nadella goes shopping. The Microsoft boss is spending almost $69 billion to take over U.S. games giant Activision Blizzard, famous among computer game enthusiasts for its first-person shooter game "Call of Duty. And among smartphone addicts for "Candy Crush.

Sounds expensive. But for Microsoft, it's a kind of winter sale. Once, because Activision Blizzard's stock had fallen hard after a sexual harassment scandal at the company, it had lost a third. The 45 percent premium to Friday's closing price that Microsoft is paying is so justified. Even to the highest price, which Activision reached in February 2021, there is still enough air.

Nadella just had to go for it. After all, the purchase is a bet on the so-called metaverse, that space in which virtual and real worlds blur together and which is first taking shape in the gaming industry. For Microsoft, it's not just visions, but real revenue. Activision sold eight billion dollars worth of games in fiscal 2020. An increase of ten percent is expected for 2021.

Personally, I hope first and foremost that CoD will be a good game again x). For Microsoft, this was probably a good decision. How do you see the whole thing?