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a lot of comments seem to be concern about the antitrust. Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard just put them in number 3 slot. Tencent and Sony are far bigger
by MangoCoffee 5y ago
a lot of comments seem to be concern about the antitrust.
Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard just put them in number 3 slot. Tencent and Sony are far bigger in gaming. if Apple lawsuit didn't take down Apple store just forced Apple to allows third party payment option. i don't think Microsoft will get slap with a antitrust. Microsoft isn't even number 1 in gaming.
- cestith 5y agoTencent doesn't have one of the major consoles nor the vast majority of desktop operating system installations. If someone was going to encourage the government to stop the merger I'd expect them to try defining the market along terms different from just "size of gaming revenues". They'd target more the synergies that could be used to anticompetitive advantage and limit customer choice. Not to say that will happen. Just that if it does, it wouldn't be on dollar size in game sales alone.
- Tiktaalik 5y agoIn terms of the "console war" competitive landscape, Tencent is not relevant as they're not a significant stakeholder in that market. The evaluation is between Sony and Microsoft and this shifts things pretty significantly toward Microsoft.