Social media chaos: “Microsoft will sell Xbox if Activision doesn’t buy”

It all started with a statement from his boss xbox, phil spencer, To the question of what would happen if the Activision acquisition did not go through and was blocked by the FTC, CMA and EU regulators.

Spencer speaks to times He answered this question by saying that the Xbox will exist even in this scenario that is not very pleasant for Microsoft. As he characteristically said:This is a very important acquisition for us. This is not a watershed in our long-term development. Xbox will be there if this deal doesn’t go through.”

But the blood flared up because of a rumor that mentioned a very unfavorable and extreme scenario, where Microsoft is considering selling the Xbox division if the deal falls through.

This information was relayed by VGC Editor-in-Chief Andy Robinson through his Twitter, writing the following:

Spencer’s pronouncements aside, I know that many industry insiders believe that selling MS Xbox is a real possibility if the deal goes through (I still think it will go through with franchises). Capitalism has proven time and time again that conventional logic doesn’t really matter if the graph doesn’t go far enough. I don’t expect that to happen, but I can say with confidence that some important players think so.

It was expected that there would be a strong reaction to the allegations and that responses would flare up in his tweet. In fact, popular The Verge journalist Tom Warren, who specializes in Microsoft issues, also responded to him, dismissing Robinson’s claims:

I’m not sure who these critics are in the industry, but they are clearly ignorant. Don’t strategically acquire Mojang and Bethesda and form Microsoft’s gaming division if you’re going to sell the Xbox business if your giant $69 billion deal doesn’t go through.

– Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 27, 2023

“I’m not sure about these industry insiders, but they’re clearly ignorant. You can’t strategically acquire Mojang and Bethesda and build up a Microsoft gaming division if you’re going to sell the Xbox business, if the giant $69 billion deal doesn’t go through.”Warren wrote excellently.

Twitter users are starting to take sides, either arguing that the Xbox sale scenario is a possibility or that this entire report is an unsubstantiated rumor.

Tom thanks you for bringing some common sense into the caravan. A company as massive as MS with an Xbox division generating 9% of their portfolio revenue and a workforce of over 7k developers across teams in the wake of a $69billion deal just to sell.

Does not make sense pic.twitter.com/pgg24CJ17d

– The Great Green (@thegreatgreen12) February 27, 2023

This is a picture of an “industry expert.” pic.twitter.com/wiI0G4CFy7

– Rand Al-Thor 19 (@ Rand_al_Thor_19) February 27, 2023

I don’t know if you did math in school, but $50 million is a little different from $69 billion

– Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 27, 2023

In the aftermath of the backlash, VGC’s editor-in-chief closed his account, making it private, so that not everyone could see his tweets. Whether or not the information Andy Robinson heard holds up remains to be seen, though it seems pretty much an extreme scenario for that to happen. what do you think? Tell us in the comments.

Finally, let us mention that in the past few days the thermometer has already risen in relation to the Activision-Microsoft deal, since the final verdict of the European Union is expected on April 11, while on April 26 the final report of the Capital Markets Authority of the United Kingdom will be published.

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