@GADG3Tx87 the tweantown article looks ridiculous in retrospect.
"The reality is Microsoft doesn't care all that much about Xbox." and "Microsoft isn't going to pay out big for gaming acquisitions any time soon." standing out the most

as for the lexology article it clearly says "The business-related restrictions are imposed on, among others, investments in any business related to:
national security;
public infrastructure;
public safety ;
protected domestic industry" and
" In fact, since liberalisation of ForeignDirectInvestments in 1980, there has been only one case where the ministries have actually issued a suspension order."

Japan won't stop the sale of Sega when they have allowed ¥39.7 trillion investements in other companies.
pachinko sales and taxes will continue under any owner (btw Sega has ONLY 400million pachinko sales) and Microsoft will most likely divest pachinko.
Microsoft by the way already has a big corporate presence in Japan (2000 employees when Sega has 3200 globally)
https://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/library/pdf/settlement/2022/20220210_presentation_e_final.pdf

Sammy Holdings already belongs 28% to foreign investors
https://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/stock/share_sample/

by the way Sammy's revenue decreased 24% in 2021 and their earnings decreased 76%, so they are not as financially secure as you make them up to be
https://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/individual/operating-results/index.html#latest-results

and they are not the biggest publisher in Japan, they actuallly sell more overseas than they do in Japan. they are the 5th publisher https://www.statista.com/statistics/689649/japan-leading-video-gaming-software-companies-by-revenue/

I get that you don't want MS to buy Sega, but what you say are mostly inaccurate. Sammy Holdings is basically a 4 billion company, Microsotft can easily buy them through the stock market and Sammy Holdings have to answer to the shareholders like any public compnay

@Pigrotto I guess @Spaceman-Spiff's point is there's no need to feel sympathy for him. usually you feel sympathy when someone's sick or in a bad situation, he just published a book

@Krysus Surely you didn't expect them to advertise this as a quirk even if it was one. it is a draw despite the reason they had to do it like this.

GoT was nothing like the books, but it didn't stop people from watching it or being a nice show initially

@Savage_Joe he's not blaming the fans

good news. now they need to rollout cloud gaming across all EU countries so that Ic an play my games wherever i go

@Odium that's my understanding at least, humans got scared, were shooting everywhere while the spartans knowing the covenant armors could withstand shots and being expert marksmen shot at the face. It makes sense as a tool to show non familiar viewers that they are super soldiers.

I liked it a lot myself, there's not many scifi series out there, especially with the expanse gone. And I like Pablo schriber since he got his uncle killed by the Greek in the wire.

@Odium the general was shooting all over the place, the spartan shot in their uncovered faces.

@mac01208 the show is just fine, not worse than many overrated shows over the years.

As for the perks, paramount+is not rolled out globally so they can't offer it everywhere, it's either somewhere or nowhere at this point.

@CrazyJF all smart tvs have stores and they already have the android and the ios apps ready, so they only need to create a tizen and webos one to cover most of the market
the problem is that tv manufacturers are not upgrading the os at all (webos) or just for a few versions. So after a few years MS will have to maintain a dozen different versions of their apps. A lot easier to release a dingle they can upgrade at will

Paramount+ will come to the UK and some other EU countries via Sky (Sky Cinema subscribers get if for free)
https://deadline.com/2021/08/viacomcbs-teams-sky-paramount-europe-launch-1234809607/

other countries will get SkyShowtime, a joint streamer combining paramount+ and peacock https://deadline.com/2021/08/comcast-viacomcbs-to-launch-joint-streamer-skyshowtime-in-20-european-markets-1234817057/

but the expert commenters say the price will go up 😜😜

@StonyKL can we laugh at you when this goes through and we can play all their games for free in gamepass?

@LtSarge 50% correct, I wouldn't trust its more correct later on

@BomberBlur07 rarbg is, but paramount+ is also coming to several parts of europe as part of skyshowtime, if you are european

@NEStalgia no objection there. I jus think that any way local authorities look at the acquisition there's no reason to object as in any given market (console, pc, console+pc, mobile, all of them) their market share won't be monopolic

@themightyant yeah it should have ben 0.75 for 3 years, damn Micorsoft increased their prices

@themightyant office365 is a great example, I got 3 years for 90 eur on black friday, that's 2.5 per month.

@Krzzystuff and some starcraft/warcrafts rts would be nice, especially now that Age of empires did so well

@Stocksy what didn't happen was what the prophets here and on twitter were predicting. noone was saying about new games then, the narrative was 7B-> price hike
the narrative now is 70B-> price hike

@Carck MS price will even increase as a result of the buyout, people like to think MS overpayed kust to justify their monopoly and bad MS rhetoric

that's why you don't need to increase prices, you just increase the customers, like Amazon's long tail

@themightyant but they did andf it didn't happen. Netflix has a huge debt, thats the only way to repay it, Amazon prime is not comparable as its not a simple subscription service, they have bundles a dozens services together,
sotify and uber most liekley are like neflix, microsoft is now. look what they do with microsoft365, price is totally normal

@UltimateOtaku91 @Chaudy that's not a monopoly in any way. even with Activision Microsoft might have around 20B sales out of 200B gaming market, that's 10% hardly a monopoly

@Stocksy people were saying the same last year with bethesda acquisition, didn't happen

@themightyant
prices don't have to go up. Microsoft is not like netflix with loans and loses every year. people here were saying this when ebthesda was bought as well and didn't happen

weird west looks interesting for isometric rpg fans

@Alduin I'm gonna rarbg it

@LocalPenguin @Alduin @FraserG @LocalPenguin
Paramount+ will come to the UK and some other EU countries via Sky (Sky Cinema subscribers get if for free)
https://deadline.com/2021/08/viacomcbs-teams-sky-paramount-europe-launch-1234809607/

other countries will get SkyShowtime, a joint streamer combining paramount+ and peacock https://deadline.com/2021/08/comcast-viacomcbs-to-launch-joint-streamer-skyshowtime-in-20-european-markets-1234817057/

this game was DOA

I got the premium add-ons but my Xbox is at my other home
I have to wait until Sunday to download it and play now

@Nic-Noc20th-C no Philips has sold ittv and monitor businesses to tpv who also makes aoc monitors.most of the other Philips products are made by them.
Strangely hvc, Hitachi, Toshiba and Panasonic tvs are alps made by vestel in turkey. Only the Koreans, the Chinese and Sony still own their brand names

@NickramCTID yeah it does but what % of the player base actually use one? Ms could probably know from telemetry. I doubt a lot of people will use one in their Iiving room tbh. I guess it only suit people having their xbox in a desk

@Xenomorph_79 PC gamepass has 50 games less actually, but the controls are the issue here. its hard play games like these with a controller

@Shigurui they haven't mentioned something like that in the news for the new edge. even in the support page they don't mention Xbox consoles supporting cloud gaming.
and it doesnt seem like its even working based on @fraserg

@John117 I think the other timeslot is mainly not intended for EU players, but APAC as it will be the morning in Japan, China and Australia. I would have preferred the whole weekend as well, but it's just a taste after all. They need to force everyone at the same time to try and overload the servers

@John117 in europe they have from 6-10pm up to 9pm-1am that's the ebst time for games. what other time would you like?

@rtmav3 like which country? the times they have schedule cover every country in the world one way or another

at last got my invite for 2 weekends as well

@CrazyJF that's not the point of the photo. they wanted to show the Switch not an actual gaming setups and it looks much better that it would with the stand

@Kopite that's the closest any of us will come to flying or seeing these places "live". if you like planes that a big deal

I got Raji on epic but didnt have the chance to play it yet, gonna start it tomorrow on GP

I hope I fly better on the xbox than on pc where I couldn't even get the plane of the ground

@Residentsteve01 I'm usually better in spelling although I'm not a native speaker, I skipped reading this somehow 😂😂

But still rechargeable Eneloops are the best, I can use them on all my xbox controllers and even if I stop playing games tomorrow I would still use them in various other devices.
And due to the fact they don't discharge I only need to worry about charging once per 6 months or something similar

@Residentsteve01 you don;t have to charge overnight with batteries, you cna just charge them while you play
a firend comes unexpectedly, he can play wirelessly without waiting fro cahrging
a battery dies, you replace it, the builtin battery dies, if you are lucky you can send the controller back

@blinx01 samsung is just greedy. I got the top rated WD_BLACK SN850 for 165eur last wek from Amazon.de
this is still too expensive for imho, especially for something that's only usable in Xbox. I'm ready to pau 150 for it

@uptownsoul series s owners can always play via xcloud like the xbox one

@FatalBubbles I meant on sony's side, not on Xbox.
It's better for xbox to not copy Sony. I would personally prefer (open world) rpgs rather than story driven games

@Chaudy I hope MS never starts creating narrative driven cinematic single player games, there no need for more of them.

@UltimateOtaku91 all these studios combined have a small marketshare so there's no reason for any intevention. it doesn;'t matter hwo many studios you buy, if you keep buying studios with low sales

I hope we get a new good scifi/space series now that the expanse is ending

@Stocksy 5 completely new annoucements, not 5 announcements.