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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 ow

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.