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This should have been blocked way earlier, you are blind or corrupted if you don't see a monopoly in the making This part is important: "In a complaint issued

This should have been blocked way earlier, you are blind or corrupted if you don't see a monopoly in the making This part is important: "In a complaint issued today, the FTC pointed to Microsoft’s record of acquiring and using valuable gaming content to suppress competition from rival consoles, including its acquisition of ZeniMax, parent company of Bethesda Softworks (a well-known game developer). Microsoft decided to make several of Bethesda's titles including Starfield and Redfall Microsoft exclusives despite assurances it had given to European antitrust authorities that it had no incentive to withhold games from rival consoles."

haskellandchill 4y ago
But Sony can buy Bungie? It seems like a selective ruling. Doesn't having Blizzard/Activision across consoles suppress the need for competition and having it owned by Microsoft increase it for Playstation and Nintendo? They are doing great already with in house content and Microsoft is trying to compete by acquisition, which seems fair to allow.
- jeppester 4y ago
  The Bungie deal is hardly relevant because it's roughly 20 times smaller. Even the ZeniMax deal was more than twice the size of the Bungie deal and it went through. All past aquisitions are not even close to these and therefore also irrelevant. Microsoft is already competing fairly well after their aquisition of ZeniMax. And let's not forget that they have a monopoly on the OS that PC games run on. As a whole MS is also many times larger than Sony. There's is just no reason to let them have this extra power. As I see it letting this deal go through would be a big gamble on MS severely screwing up the advantage of having way more popular IP than Sony could ever dream of.