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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Interesting. I'm against large companies buying up all these developers, but it seems strange that this is where they're trying to draw the line.
I don't understand how anybody could see this market consolidation as a positive! Yes, in the short term ABK games will be added to Game Pass, but once Game Pass is the only "game" in town, the price gouging monopolistic behavior will follow.
And worse is that the industry could react with further consolidation if this went through.
After Microsoft bought Bethesda, Sony reacted by buying a series of studios for itself. Yeah those studios had a historically close relationship with Sony already (besides Bungie, the most recent), but now they're officially tied together.
I'm not sure if Sony has the FU Microsoft money to buy another top ten publisher, but imagine if they could and bought out Ubisoft/EA/Square Enix and now those games would never come on Xbox again?
It's already hard enough for gamers to play anything/everything due to exclusivity and needing to buy multiple systems. If I didn't have a PC, I would be extremely annoyed at being unable to play Starfield when I played Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, etc on PlayStation.