Little Interest From Suitors to Purchase Activision from Vivendi - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 July 2012 / 3,944 Views
Vivendi is looking to sell its stake in Activision Blizzard and so far there has been little interest according to a report at Bloomberg. Vivendi owns 61 percent stake in the video game publisher. Reports have shown that Microsoft, Disney and Take-Two have little interest in purchasing the company.
Vivendi Chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou said "it’s a possibility" when he was asked if Vivendi was trying to find a buyer. "We’re always looking at opportunities for all of our businesses," he continued.
According to a person, who remains anonymous, Microsoft isn't actively pursuing a bid, but is keeping its options open. The biggest hurdle is whether or not having Call of Duty as an exclusive outweighs the decrease in sales from not being on a Sony or Nintendo platform.
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"According to a person" lol
Maybe Nintendo will shock the world and buy it up. People would shit out entire Chevy Volts if that happened.
They went to Take-Two seriously? the entire company isn't even worth $1 billion how would they ever get the money to bye Activision?
huh? you know take two own rockstar right? you know the company that has GTA franchise that sells 20 million minimum and know Red dead series which red dead redemption sold 12.5 million right? yeah its not worth 1 billion.... its worth way more
Take-Two is the owner of Rockstar and 2K games. I would say it is quite a behemoth. GTA, RDR, Max Payne, LA: Noire, Bioshock, Borderlands, 2k sports games, etc, etc, etc.
Guys Take-Two is much too small for Activision
@bananaking21 & Heavenly_King
Take-Two Interactive's market cap is $800 million it's on hand cash is $420 thousand and total assets are $1.1 billion according to there own financial records.
1st quarter 2012 financial results
http://ir.take2games.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=86428&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1698793&highlight=
MS won't care if CoD sells less, because MS won't really care about Acti's bottom line. Having CoD exclusive would be a means to an end, which is MS owning the living room. Acti profits would be happily sacrificed on that alter. However the other 39% of the shareholders might have a thing or two to say about that ssort of approach by the majority shareholder, and lawsuites wouls abound. Hence MS's reticence.
