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Anti-trust hasn't been about competition for decades. The current jurisprudence is that it's all about prices and so long as companies swear prices will go down
by rtkwe 5y ago
Anti-trust hasn't been about competition for decades. The current jurisprudence is that it's all about prices and so long as companies swear prices will go down there's not much stopping mergers like this.
On the positive angle for now at least Microsoft is the company I'd prefer to be buying studios because they're not locking things down to exclusives and are nearly giving games away on Game Pass.
- sofixa 5y ago> The current jurisprudence is that it's all about prices and so long as companies swear prices will go down there's not much stopping mergers like this. In the US*. And it's fairly stupid because there are no consequence when companies lie ( e.g. check AT&T / TimeWarner). However some other places, like the EU and UK, have much more practical competition-based rules. For instance, Alstom and Siemens weren't allowed to merge because they would have had near monopolies in some niches in some countries in the EU.
- rtkwe 5y agoGames is one of the places where I think there's a low enough barrier to entry such that some of the classic antimonopoly economics kick in. There are wildly successful games from one person studios all the way up to the huge AAA developers.