I don’t think ANY regulator in the world would even bat an eye for MS-ABK deal within this climate where everyone is buying everything.
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No. They are required by law to announce deals when they come to a final agreement since Sony is publicly traded. He just means they are working on others and likely will close some more in the not very distant future.
but even at my worst, still got Housemarque and Bluepoint right, so idk, guess the balance is restored.
I think the exclusives conversation is going to get muddier and muddier until we start to see streaming services available universally on gaming devices (except Nintendo of course). I wouldn’t be remotely shocked to see Sony and Microsoft eventually negotiate a good deal to get their services on each other’s devices.
The big issue is the 30% take for putting games on consoles but it doesn’t have to stay that way forever if it even fits both of them to try and evolve the industry. Again, Amazon, Google, Meta/Facebook and Apple are bigger concerns to Sony/Microsoft than each other.
I do wonder if regulators will eventually be concerned about oligopoly issues but nothing is stopping those other massive companies from having more competitive services available.
You guys are delusional. There is a reason MS’s lawyers reached out to Ken Buck about the details of the deal to make him specific assurances. But hey, maybe you two know better than MS’s legal team here.
You have no clue what you are talking about. The regulatory climate in the US is gearing up to be more aggressive, not less. Go watch Hoeg’s vids and learn something please.
Ok, I see.
Housemarque and especially Bluepoint were so easy to call tbh, doesn’t count in my book
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I think you fell in love with conspiracy theories, lol. Why aren’t you arguing about a bigger fish than MS spending billions?
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Only for MS deals, ok man.
lmfao I agree.
Huh? You think there are bigger fish than a $70bil acquisition? Not many M&A’s compete at that scale. Come back to reality.
Huh? What are you talking about? The FTC picks and chooses what deals to investigate. They absolutely will look at a $70 bil acquisition. It’d be great if you informed yourself just a lil before replying. Go watch Hoeg. He is an M&A lawyer who knows what he is talking about here.
Check that again, it’s not even HALF a percent change.
If we’re calling possible Sony purchases, I’m willing to bet they are targetting that Ex Cod dev studio in Santa Monica seeing as they’ve been expanding into Canada. They would’ve needed quite a bit of funding for that. I also think probably monster is a good call.
the joke is dead and everyone’s moved on, don’t worry. 
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Sony has a bigger stake than MS in gaming. You are contraddicting yourself, you can’t argue about MS “monopoly concerns” and ignore Sony moves in the same sentence.
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Not once did I say anything about ‘monopoly concerns’. Try reading comments before replying. Strawman nonsense is not impressing anyone.
keep the ftc gate stuff to the appropriate thread please.
Why the hell are they keeping all the games multi platform?
What am I missing here?
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Nor you are, I’m sorry, like you were among the fearmongers about Zenimax deal. You got already wrong once.
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