> Please don't call my point of view embarrassing -- that's uncalled for. I'm not calling your position embarrassing, I'm calling the position you think I have

> Please don't call my point of view embarrassing -- that's uncalled for. I'm not calling your position embarrassing, I'm calling the position you think I have embarrassing. What's uncalled for is reducing what I'm saying to this > I don't think the attitude of "let Sony's gaming business be as big as it already is, but don't allow Microsoft's gaming business to try to expand to match Sony's" is healthy. That's literally anti-competitive. And then getting pissy when I point out that you tried to make it sound like I'm some shill for Sony. I'm literally in other parts of this thread also criticizing Sony. The reality is you're saying untrue, uneducated things about the state of the gaming market. Again Microsoft is already much bigger than Sony's gaming market. Christ, Activison is almost as big as Sony's gaming market. > What the rest of Microsoft's business does, or the rest of Sony's business does, outside of gaming, has nothing to do with anything here. Again, Microsoft > Microsoft Gaming > Sony Gaming. And why would we pretend other parts of Microsofts business don't exist just because Sony isn't also doing it? Who has their operating system on billions of computers, where they can sell games? Who has the best capacity to use AI in their businesses? AI is the next step for effective anticheat, which is otherwise a losing battle. Who is the only feasible steward of the language that lots of games are developed on? Who owns LinkedIn, where game developers look for jobs? Who owns the highest selling game ever and has already filled it with microtransactions, essentially printing money? I don't see how we can ignore any of those things. I look at all of this and it's alarming how fucked we are if Microsoft decides to make all our lives worse, and that's just in gaming. The worst Sony could do has already been done cause Sony are shitheels in their own way.