{"id":642902,"date":"2023-04-29T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/microsoft-acquisition-blocked-sonys-selling-plenty-of-ps5s-kaser-focus\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T15:06:00","slug":"microsoft-acquisition-blocked-sonys-selling-plenty-of-ps5s-kaser-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/microsoft-acquisition-blocked-sonys-selling-plenty-of-ps5s-kaser-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft acquisition blocked; Sony\u2019s selling plenty of PS5s | Kaser Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been a weird week, watching Microsoft. I\u2019m no less tired of the Activision-Blizzard acquisition, but I was a bit animated by the news this week that the UK\u2019s Competition and Markets Authority are blocking the acquisition<\/a>. This came only a few days after Microsoft revealed its Xbox division isn\u2019t doing great in terms of profit. Microsoft have said they\u2019ll appeal the decision, natch. But I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m on their side in this one given it\u2019s a more complex situation than it might seem.<\/p>\n

Sony today released its latest financial earnings report<\/a>, which shows that the company is selling PlayStation 5 consoles by the truckload. Now that it seems to have sorted out the supply chain issues, it sold 6.3 million units last quarter and 38 million overall. Still, it\u2019s not all great news: Game software units sales dropped slightly compared with last year, and PlayStation Plus subscribers haven\u2019t gone up. According to Bloomberg<\/a>, the company is concerned with the downturn, and their outlook for the next fiscal year isn\u2019t as optimistic as one might think.<\/p>\n

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is also launching this week, one of the major AAA releases of 2023. Let\u2019s just say the PC performance has been raked over the coals by fans \u2014 and not without reason. I have a decent work PC, less than a year old, and I couldn\u2019t run Jedi: Survivor on it if my life depended upon it. I\u2019d be lucky if the framerate ran in the double digits. But on my much older home gaming PC (which, admittedly, I built myself with better components) it runs almost perfectly. Here\u2019s hoping we get a patch pre-May the 4th that makes it run easier.<\/p>\n

In more personal news, I\u2019m trying to balance several games besides Cal\u2019s latest Jedi Tomb Raider outing. The Last Case of Benedict Fox has been surprisingly fun so far, in part thanks to its beautiful art design. I\u2019m also playing some more of Dead Island 2, slightly less lovely but a little bit more whimsical. I\u2019m also trying to finish the Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores DLC. As long as I can get all of that<\/em> done before May 12, I should be golden.<\/p>\n

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