I am sorry, I was on holiday so I didn’t get to reply but I did appear to be half mistaken, percentages don’t seem to be used that much but monopolies do trend to focus on the industry and not subsections (escpecally in unestential industries like gaming or movies for example). The definition on monopoly is basically being in a position where you control an industry and we have more estential industries like the opportating system for example showing the line to be anti trust is pretty fair in considering how dominate windows is or online shopping with amazon (granted their are some weird cases like them going after FB for some reason despite their being tons of valid competitors to the social media’s they own)…also them closing down the PC store fronts which is the 1 which could be argued to be more esstential doesn’t really mean much unless they buy valve because the MS store app is far from dominate and the publishers they have bought with storefronts are also far from dominate…also I guess you could argue cloud in general (not xcloud) but MS isn’t even dominate in said area, they are behind amazon
but this is the thing, we don’t need protection from a gaming company. Its an unestential industry much like movies and when windows can own about 75% of that market I don’t see them coming after MS over gaming of all things
well yeah, this makes sense. Literally anyone can make a video game (their isn’t really a barrier of entery like most industries have). Hell literally the most successful game of all time was started by 1 person which was acquired about 2 Billion dollars then you have other examples like roblox for example which has become huge. The only area the FTC maybe able to argue a fair case is probably the cloud but MS isn’t dominate in that industry so I don’t see a way it goes far
not really shocking. Both Sony pictures and Paramount felt inevitable to be acquired IMO. If Microsoft plans to make a move into this industry this is the purchase I expect them to make but I don’t think they are
I get WB discovery but why would they go after Netflix. I don’t think thata a good buy at all since they lack a lot of great or high profile franchises (also the average premium isn’t 45%, its apparently 20-30% according to google, I think that just goes to show how big of a deal ABK was/is)
Microsoft is probably targetting bigger fish now tbh. Some studio acquisitions wouldn’t shock me (like neather realm and Certain Affinity wouldn’t shock me) but I think they will be much more focused on publishers now
I wouldn’t put Ubisoft on that list. They treated as some super major but they aren’t a lot bigger than bethesda all things considered. They are sort mid sized, when we are on about the major players I would say MS, Tencent, Sony, Nintendo, ABK (about to be acquired), EA & T2.
why not do both at the same time, I don’t get why people say wait when MS is clearly worried of other companies entering and buying these companies waiting is the worst thing they could do
IDK, with the massive stock drop I honestly wouldn’t write it off and while the lay offs would cause a lot of backlash would MS care…I think their are better and more likely targets but I wouldn’t write it off consider the IP Ubisoft owns is pretty powerful and the fact that they would get them for an insanely good price
ok but you can’t really move employees to different studio’s most of the time nor can we assume all those developers have the level of skill needed to work on some of the other franchises. I don’t know what all their studio’s do but I know they own a lot of mobile ones and you can’t just drop them on the next elder scrolls for example…also the fact they apparently have more employees than embracer makes me think they are just insanely bloated to a stupid degree
I think thats all publishers. Like non are the size to keep up with the companies entering, the only one with a legitament chance would of probably would of been Nintendo, if they had acquired stuff as they grew I could easily of seen them become the disney of gaming if you will
