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No acquisition of this size should ever be allowed. This is way too much consolidation. Microsoft is buying their way to becoming the #2 or #3 gaming company
by parkingrift 5y ago
No acquisition of this size should ever be allowed. This is way too much consolidation. Microsoft is buying their way to becoming the #2 or #3 gaming company in the world. They should have to innovate and compete their way to the #2 or #3 gaming company in the world.
Who is going to be able to compete with Xbox Game Pass?
- syshum 5y agoIdiocracy and Demolition Man were both prophecies
- MangoCoffee 5y agoDisney? it own all the media and franchise IPs like Star Wars, Marvel...etc.
- parkingrift 5y agoI don’t consider past regulatory failures as a reasonable counter argument to regulating current transactions. I would wholeheartedly supported forcing Disney to divest much of their portfolio.
- loceng 5y agoAlong with that perhaps implement rules of integrity - that you can't alter story lines (multiple movie release versions) for various reasons, else you can't earn revenue/profit from democratic-free nations [or at least nations doing their best to working towards understanding the rules necessary for an ideal level of freedom as maxim, e.g. driving on the right side of the road, excessive force for self-defense isn't acceptable, etc]; or perhaps these modified movies act as a Trojan horse library - which can later be proof points to help educate, enlighten their population by showing the contrast - and arguably why they'd want to exclude it.
- bombcar 5y agoDisney already owns some huge percentage of all entertainment, we just need to wait for them to buy Microsoft's gaming division now.
- Slartie 5y agoBased on current market valuations, it seems more likely for Microsoft to be able to buy Disney than the other way round.
- Balero 5y agoOr Microsoft to buy Disney, which is probably more likely.
- SahAssar 5y agoMicrosofts market cap is 10x disneys. It's more likely that microsoft would buy disney (and perhaps spin off theme parks and cruises).
- me_me_me 5y agoWow, thats the future i am looking forward to. 'You have a choice, you can pick Microsoft or Disney. More options would only confuse you'
- unethical_ban 5y agoCounterpoint: It's gaming. It is a space with a low barrier to (indie) entry and it is not part of some critical infrastructure. Maybe it is lamentable, but I am not sure antitrust would be my way to go for this.
- inetknght 5y ago> It is a space with a low barrier to (indie) entry and it is not part of some critical infrastructure. How many indie games are there for Xbox?
- mbg721 5y agoMore than you might think. Manifold Garden is one that comes to mind; if you're looking for them in the online store thing, you can find them, although of course they're not the games with discs and cases at Walmart or Target or wherever.
- vlozko 5y agoA lot? Certainly far more than I can ever get to. Even more on PS and PC. Not exactly sure what you're getting at.
- dmonitor 5y agoand microsoft still takes 30% of their revenue
- whynaut 5y agoMicrosoft has been championing indie games for three generations now. This was the wrong question for sure.
- parkingrift 5y agoIt will be tough to sell $60 games when you can get the entire library of Microsoft games, plus their partner networks, for $10/month. Not to mention the potential platform abuses whereby MS can now gate their property behind Windows and Xbox. And I’m not even that creative. Surely MS will get a return on their $70,000,000,000 investment whether it’s better for the gaming economy and consumers, or not.
- loceng 5y agoOne counterweight mechanism that might work really well is a higher % tax for these massive organizations - of which then ideally direct that funding to support and fund creativity/competitors, etc. Whether that accounts for and counters all the potential pitfalls of companies with such gravity and power, I don't know?