josh brown what the living hell is going on we were trying to do a podcast ben roy read a tweet in the middle of it turns out xbox slash the microsoft gaming division just bought activision so call of duty is now an xbox franchise there's a hell of a lot to react to in this there's a ton of questions that come from the whole thing and it's also worth clarifying that the amount of money that just traded hands was NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars which makes it the biggest transaction in entertainment human history completely eclipsing last week's other record settings whole when take two brought zinger of NUMBER_TOKEN billion so just the big men be flowing there's just left right and center josh brown what's your thoughts to this absolute madness i'm still trying to take it in like it's literally like the biggest deal in like you said like gaming history ever and it completely eclipses the NUMBER_TOKEN billion deal that we covered last week like now this just changes everything this changes everything in the gaming landscape forever now like we thought that bethesda being bought by microsoft was big that just seems tiny now in kind of in comparison to the size of this deal and we'll get into the nitty-gritty in the moment because there is so much to pick apart but the fact that now microsoft i mean microsoft owns you know um titles like call of duty like uh world of warcraft like diablo like crash bandicoot like you know tony hawk and stuff like it's i'm i'm trying to formulate as we go on it's like just so big i can't even comprehend it i can't comprehend doctor evil levels of money when you think about NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars hello well the thing is it made me go because we'll break all this stuff down but it made me think of every other you know like i said big man business transaction that we've seen and it reminds me of you know when uh disney bought um star wars and marvel and everything that was about four billion just just about cheeky four billion that they threw in there and like i said there was last week's one or twelve billion there are other massive deals that have happened over the years um but this one is just it's one of those things that doesn't feel like it could ever happen like the idea of call of duty now being yes over time xbox exclusive alongside elder scrolls fallout all the other deals that microsoft have been doing and the other side of me um other than just reacting to it you know like i said we cover the news a lot we cover the business side of things quite a lot makes me think of is this is this just their master plan overall that they've just been putting together for the last few years because as far as the generation is concerned for the last sort of year and a half or so and you know microsoft or actually say the xbox division overall having you know they didn't fire out the gates with the new franchises straight away they were like there was a new gears of war again that big time frame but they weren't like here's the new console here's the new titles we've spent the last seven years or whatever putting everything together and here's everything instead of that it was his game pass he has um cloud streaming and now we're doing these insane deals we're locking
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