As long as playstation have naughty dog , Santa Monica , guerrila , sucker punch etc they got nothing to worry about imo because they are only growing in prestige and popularity. And It.Ain't.Slowing.Down
Only if MS don't buy anyone else. They know their path to victory now. Spend billions that Sony doesn't have to buy up as much of the industry as they can, make as many 10 year deals as they have to in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the regulators, pull massive amounts of content from Sony in 10 years and it's game over. They're playing the long game while the regulators faff and fret about next year's CoD, and their feigned position of weakness currently.
If the game is who can spend to most to "compete" Sony simply lose, and with all these mega purchases that is the game now no matter how much in denial we all are. If MS has 3x as many studios and IP as Sony they simply win.
This will be one of those things people will look back at in 25 years and wonder what the regulators were thinking. They've just let a platform holder buy the biggest publisher in the industry. After they already bought another punisher.
Regulators shouldn't be focusing on MS's position in the industry now. They should be looking at what happens in 25 years if they don't stop MS gobbling up the industry.
it really is an odd thing to witness. That acquisition thread was one of the most bizarre things I've seen (especially on a supposedly left-leaning/progressive forum).
Apparently a 2.5 trillion dollar platform holder buying up the biggest publisher in the industry (after already having bought a publisher) is a "win for consumers", because after all the big evil bogeyman of the 100 billion company behind PlayStation MUST be defeated.
Very weird thread indeed.
MS now have a huge advantage in developers and IP, and limitless budgets to pair with it.
Just wait until they buy SEGA next.
