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Sony has way more exclusives than MS— why would it be catastrophic to even that particular playing field? This just sounds like Sony fans pissed that a few gam
by indigodaddy 3y ago
Sony has way more exclusives than MS— why would it be catastrophic to even that particular playing field? This just sounds like Sony fans pissed that a few games are going to get taken away.
- Kapura 3y agoSony isn't trying to buy activision ? The issue isn't sony, it's the size of Activision/Blizzard in the gaming market.
- bllguo 3y agoexactly, a nice concise answer it shocks me every time how few people here seem to understand that scale changes things. is this not a forum frequented by SV techies?
- ayemel 3y agoNo one is having issues understanding the scale of the acquisition—a $70 billion dollar price tag kinda makes that obvious to everyone. The question that myself and others in the thread have been asking without getting a clear answer is how could this acquisition make Microsoft a monopoly in the gaming space? Even with the scale there doesn’t seem to be any legitimate path to Microsoft becoming a monopoly: video games is a $200b a year industry. Activision Blizzard’s 2022 revenue was $7.5b and combining that with Xbox’s $15b revenue still doesn’t even surpass PlayStation’s $24b. Is that a monopoly? I don’t see it.
- c4ptnjack 3y agoI mostly agree. However, I think it has more to do with the market power MS has across multiple domains.