There are business acquisitions and mergers that take forever, which can take years and even sink, as happened in the case of NVIDIA and ARM, or go to court, as will happen in the case of the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk. Not to mention the cases in which so many regulators and other instances have to intervene that we have been receiving reports of new investigations for months, as we are witnessing in the case of the purchase of Activision Blizzard King by Microsoft, in a process that intends to extend until at least 2023.
For this reason, cases where these operations are resolved quickly and without problems usually cause surprise. And that’s the case with Sony’s purchase of Bungie, an operation we heard about at the end of January and haven’t heard from again… until now. And that’s exactly what Sony posted tweet confirming that the process was successfully completed and therefore Bungie is now owned by Sony.
The size of the operation, much smaller than that of Microsoft and Activision, allowed the operation to avoid many of the controls necessary for Microsoft. Recall that buying Bungie meant a payday for Sony 3.6 billion dollarsa non-negligible amount, but far from almost 70 billion dollars that Microsoft will have to pay if your purchase goes through.
