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Macr0Penis t1_j1gybyu wrote

Reply to comment by Heijoshinn in Microsoft will fight U.S. over $68.7-billion Activision Blizzard deal by Brook030

Yes, Sony have dominated the gaming market, but that's because they developed better consoles and exclusive content.

Yes, Sony has had exclusively deals, same as Xbox, but these are often just timed and even some of their bigger IP's are now making their way to PC.

Yes, Sony has in house studios and deals for exclusive content, just the same as Xbox has, but this takeover is totally different because this isn't buying and supporting studios, this is buying the major publishers that own dozens of studios for the sole reason of removing their games from Sony's library. They bought Bethesda so games like Doom, Wolfenstein, Elder Scrolls, Fallout and many more will no longer be released outside of the MS ecosystem. And Activision is far bigger than Bethesda.

Sony supports content generation, MS is trying to remove content access- two very different strategies and it IS anticompetitive and must be stopped or everyone will suffer.

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Macr0Penis t1_j1gsw21 wrote

Reply to Microsoft will fight U.S. over $68.7-billion Activision Blizzard deal by Brook030

This deal needs to be stopped. It was bad enough that they acquired Bethesda, withholding a lot of big IP's from Sony, but if they get the even bigger Activision aswell, then they will control a huge amount of gaming content. They should be building better consoles and developing new AAA IP's instead of trying to hobble their competitor. If this goes ahead, you might never see a Playstation 6 and without that competition there will be nothing to drive innovation leaving us with half-assed x-boxs as the only available consoles going forward.

Wow- I'm getting downvoted for this?! I guess there are some MS fanboys here who would rather have shitty half-assed games on half-assed consoles than see Sony do well. This is called 'cutting off your nose to spite your face'.

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