Well we know how the story goes. Disney sought to expand into the gaming industry and hasn't stopped ever since. They successfully competed with Activision to buy out Blizzard, thus giving them control over the world's largest MMO. This was followed by their 2009 buyout of Pandemic Studios and Bioware from EA(EA losing many of it's IPs and Activision's failure to acquire Blizzard facilitated the merger of EA and Activision into the rather infamous ElectronicVision company to compete with Disney), their buyout of Riot Games in 2013, them exerting more and more influence over Square Enix using Kingdom Hearts as a jumping off point to the point where Square Enix effectively de facto answers to them, and the buyout of Ubisoft in 2014.
After Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas in 2012, they established Cantina Games, which allowed them to directly publish and create Star Wars games. Despite the massive polarization and discontent with the Sequel Trilogy(OOC: They went roughly the same as OTL) the games coming from Cantina Games, along with Rogue One, Dave Filoni's work and the Mandalorian has been seen as bright spots in the franchise.
No one knows where the Mouse Empire will go next, but there has been rumors of them in talks to buy Nintendo since 2017.
But what if Disney didn't expand into the gaming industry? What would the implications for the gaming industry if the mouse never expanded it's paws over the industry?
After Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas in 2012, they established Cantina Games, which allowed them to directly publish and create Star Wars games. Despite the massive polarization and discontent with the Sequel Trilogy(OOC: They went roughly the same as OTL) the games coming from Cantina Games, along with Rogue One, Dave Filoni's work and the Mandalorian has been seen as bright spots in the franchise.
No one knows where the Mouse Empire will go next, but there has been rumors of them in talks to buy Nintendo since 2017.
But what if Disney didn't expand into the gaming industry? What would the implications for the gaming industry if the mouse never expanded it's paws over the industry?