Microsoft and Sony Acquisitions
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Contributing author: Peter Johnston
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微软和索尼独立宣布，他们正在追求大规模的游戏收购。微软希望以68.7亿美元的价格获得活动，索尼正在寻求以3.6亿美元的价格获得Bungie。
在表面上（不与Microsoft Surface混淆），这看起来这两个公司都在努力通过确保他们有一个引人注目的游戏标题来保护他们的硬件平台。But what does a closer look at these acquisitions tell us?
在审查Activision和Bungie的专利组合中，可以看出，在知识产权方面，微软的收购可能会更具战略性。
Bungie is not listed as an applicant on any patents. Activision, on the other hand, is the named applicant on 140 patents.
While many of Activision’s patents are extremely valuable in the multi-player, gaming space, their worth to Microsoft is strategically superior when one considers them through the advent of the metaverse.
The metaverse, if you have not been following the hype, is a blend of the real and virtual worlds where participants are always tuned into their digital reality through the multi-connectivity of online gaming, social media, augmented reality, virtual reality, and the real world itself.
Some of the patents in Activision’s portfolio are directly related to the metaverse, such as their technique for determining whether an object is genuine or fake in a metaverse. Other patents may be useful in both the metaverse and for on-line gaming, such as improving player matching, and generating content derived from, or based on, social networks.
Time will tell how these acquisitions affect Microsoft and Sony in the long term, but it looks to us like Microsoft’s $68.7B acquisition of Activision could be the superior strategic move – at least from a patent perspective.
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