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Sony claim that Microsoft are attempting to foreclose Sony. Seriously? Microsoft has absolutely no intention of doing so, and even after the acquisition goes through, Sony will still be the biggest gaming company, and Microsoft will only move up to third. It's simply not possible to foreclose a company from a less dominant position. You need to be the market leader to be capable of doing that, and that position is held by Sony, and will remain so after the acquisition goes through.

As for these 'three agencies' that you mention, I assume that you are referring to the various regulators. I never said anything about them, nor any comment regarding companies dancing. I absolutely agree that their work is important, and I truly hope that they are totally unbiased in their findings. The only one that thus far has shown any potential bias towards Sony is the UK regulators, who have stated that they are concerned regarding the impact this will have on Sony, which is not what they are supposed to be doing. Their investigations are supposed to establish what affect the acquisition will have on the industry, not on one particular company within that industry. As for the tweet from the European guy, and his 'my PlayStation' comment, that is a complete load of tosh as he has no involvement in the European regulators investigation or decision making. That was a lot of fuss over nothing.

As For Why Nadella Is Ponying Up All That Cash In What Is Far And Away The Biggest Acquisition In Th

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The biggest hit to sony is the fact the all of PS profit comes from the 3rd party sales. The 30% cut FIFA and COD will be most of PS's UK profit. Those games are that important. Sure PS will still have FIFA but as a lot of players only play both FIFA and COD, MS is going to take a small chunk of those FIFA $$ away with this deal. I did wonder how MS was going to respond to PS buying up timed exclusives. Very few companies wanted to sell exclusive rights to MS as Sony was the market leader. I guess we have an answer to that now. I think in some ways both this and the bethesda purchase have been warnings to Sony, As long as you pay to keep games off Xbox we'll keep buying studios. This thing is that if this shifts consoles sales in favour of Xbox, it will become much harder for PS to buy exclusive rights as it will limit exposure to a smaller user base. Then with less exclusives Sony looses more ground.

Lets not get lost in Western PR and Propaganda. Lets lay it bare, through gaming Sony rake in 25B and have around 120M active PS users, Microsoft $11B and also over 100M gaming users. Extremely unlikely these games will not be accessed on PS as its will be at least 30% of market. This is about the metaverse which is a gamble that US Companies are attempting to get sheep to flock into (yes you all are the sheep), it will become the biggest Spyware known to man. Now I have 445 games on my PS Account why on earth would I leave PlayStation because of this acquisition? To be honest I actually detest COD.

@pierco I never said that Sony is going to disappear. My point is that this acquisition together with Bethesda's and god knows what else is an industry shifting event that will have inevitable repercussions in the years and decades to come. And I'm worried that this change points to a future where subscription services will be the norm. Which is a future that I don't see with very good eyes.You said yourself, Spartacus is right around the corner. Which means Sony has given up on that front. They have reiterated time and again that the Game Pass model does not get along well with their current business practices. So either Game Pass or the current model will fail in the long run because Microsoft is clearly going all in.

The good thing is Spencer did say that he's not going to take games away from other communities so we can stop with the end of the world mentality. So series like CoD and Overwatch will absolutely still come to PS consoles. The thing I don't get is that even if you put those games on GP, does that even lure more people over to the service? Most casuals just buy a console and buy their Madden and CoD every year. They're not going to bother with a subscription service to play extra games they have no interest in. That said it's still terrible for the industry for MS to keep doing this. It's just sad that we went decades without a console maker buying up 3rd party publishers and now since Xbox can't make great games on their own so they were allowed to use big daddy MS's check book and buy 2 of the biggest publishers in the last 2 years. If you Xbox fanboys think this is good for the industry you're insane and don't come crying when everything is live service.

Many people prefer Xbox games over PS games (not on this site for obvious reasons and not trying to convince fanboys of anything). Truth is, last year, Xbox games were better received than Sony's in terms of sales and reviews. Even if Horizon Forbidden West is a great game, it will sell 10m at best which is what the prequel shipped on the most popular platform of the last generation. Bear in mind that most of PS4 owners bought it for Call of Duty, FIFA and GTA according to the software sales charts. Those are the games that drive hardware sales. Sony's exclusives are not as important as they seem and will be less important for the platform this generation. The biggest Sony game right now is MLB The Show 21 that is multiplatform and most Sony exclusives are coming to PC as well. Anyway, the acquisition is good news considering that the alternative was Facebook and that Activision Blizzard were looking for that kind of buyers and that's the only thing I really wanted to say on here. If Activision Blizzard games will come or not to PS5 in the future (2023 and beyond) is something that we don't know for sure but it seems quite unlikely. Last but not least, Sony would have bought Activision Blizzard if they could.

The concern is you buy a PS for those first-party games and those third-party offerings, COD was its biggest selling game last year. Whilst XBOX there wasn't much going on away from those third-party games. Once they become first party, PS is officially in a Nintendo situation, and they have never been in that before.

WiiU was the perfect storm though. Just as PS5 has inertia from PS4 that can carry it, somewhat, even if things get rough, WiiU had near zero, they flipped off core gamers with the Wii, the casuals went mobile, and the in between lost interest after years of drought. It was marketed horribly, the hardware looked dated and was undesirable, and big publishers like EA were actively sowing doubt about it for their own ends, and it's initial launch success was stopped dead by the PS4 February reveal, including the fake Watch_Dogs footage from Ubi showing PS4 to be immensely more impressive than it actually was. And on top of all that, it's biggest competitor was the 3DS. They were competing against themselves and their other system was the one with most of the 1st party and exclusive content. It's a weird situation for WiiU, but one with a lot of lessons for observers, not just what not to do, but what tends to influence what. No question Sony and MS learned a lot by watching that.

Not just that but as @ferago42 said above (spot on), they got too cocky moneyhatting but without realising that they would not be able to do what others could and then they woke up the sleeping behemoth. Now Sony has to focus on development like Nintendo, if they keep playing dirty they might trigger more acquisitions that they can't afford. If Sony focus on development, they will be alright. 2ff7e9595c