Yeah, I cannot see this merger being a net benefit for consumers. It reads completely like Microsoft just flexing its financial muscles gained entirely from thi

Yeah, I cannot see this merger being a net benefit for consumers. It reads completely like Microsoft just flexing its financial muscles gained entirely from things unrelated to gaming, and using that money to take over the industry in the long-term. Sure, they did sign on their games with services like Geforce Now for 10 years and bring Call of Duty to Nintendo consoles. However, these all seem like short-term theatre to make everything look nice. First of all, the reason why Microsoft games were not on Geforce Now was because Microsoft PULLED them from it [1]. And considering that Activision-Blizzard is (allegedly) worth $69 billion, I don't believe that they couldn't bring their games onto Nintendo platforms if they saw a market there. Seems like Microsoft is just making up imaginary markets to be able to say "look at all these people who will get Call of Duty because of US". [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228792/nvidia-geforce-now-microsoft-xbox-game-studios-warner-bros-remove-games https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228792/nvidia-geforce-n...