It’s not Sonys fault that Microsoft destroyed their first party dominance while Sony was curating their exclusive titles. Microsoft endorsed enshittification a

It’s not Sonys fault that Microsoft destroyed their first party dominance while Sony was curating their exclusive titles. Microsoft endorsed enshittification and got complacent. Sony didn’t. Microsoft lost their previously winning position through incompetence in a single console generation, and that doesn’t all of a sudden make buying up and making several studios exclusive “fair competition”. “Fair competition” is not using your other business lines to subsidize harming consumers because you made several years of terrible decisions. What’s more, Microsoft’s throwing money around to just buy a position in the gaming market is showing through clear review manipulation (Starfalls wall of 10s for what’s clearly a 5-6/10). For any other company this purchase is viewed as anti-competitive. Microsoft’s arguments were fucking toddler level. How consumer protections managed to bungle this so badly to prevent the sale is likely to go down in law education for “what not to do”. All the lawyers involved in the consumer protection side should be disbarred on the basis of complete incompetence.