It totally agree. Sony and Nintendo have an outsized commitment to exclusive hardware/software that is very frustrating. Especially when it would be a huge benefit to a disadvantaged and historically neglected community within the video game space.

I think this is great, but I also still think they should’ve supported the XBox Adaptive Controller on PlayStation consoles from the outset. While I’m sure there are workarounds to get it working, it would’ve been a good/smart gesture.

In Canada they are still very hard to find, especially without a bundle of some kind, so I will add my “I’ll believe it when I see it” to the chorus.

To be fair, getting arts funding in Quebec is incredibly easy compared to the rest of the country. Because they’ve been recognized as having a “distinct society” from the rest of the country, worthy of protecting/promoting, there is tons of federal money pumped into the province for the arts. Overall, I think it’s…

LMAO. No legal justification? There are literally laws that give at least two government agencies the ability/justification to stop mergers. Again, I don’t think you know what you’re talking about here.

The big question: will Kratos be blue?

I think you might need to read up on this a bit, as I don’t think you really understand the process. Sony absolutely did not start this. MS is required to make submissions on a potential acquisition like this to a couple of government agencies. They review and decide if they are going to do anything about it. As part…

CoD is an annual release (well, usually), and is frequently the best selling game of the year, or at least consistently among them. It theoretically has competition from other FPS games, but none has really made a dent in its sales. There are a lot of people out there who buy one game per year and it’s CoD, and before…

you mean for Sony to create a legitimate CoD competitor? I dunno, man. Many have tried and failed. I don’t particularly care for the series, but it has a lot of market momentum behind it. What’s the closest competitor now? Battlefield probably? Didn’t Sony already dis that series in one of its filings?

For a limited time. So they can get the deal past regulators.

The money they make by bringing people to their platform > the money they make from a multiplatform game. If your math worked, nobody would do exclusives.

well, it seems like CoD alone is enough for all of these competition regulators, so I don’t think that really matters.

All I was saying is that your argument was essentially to give the current market leader a further competitive advantage over rivals, which I assume wouldn’t go over well with the FTC.

Sure, but they don’t have to look at Sony for that. MS just did it with Zenimax.

My point was a response to the OP’s comment, not me saying they have a monopoly. It was an argument that it would be good to give the current market leader a further competitive advantage, effectively helping them build a monopoly in the space. The opposite of what the FTC is supposed to do.

If MS buys Activision, everything will become exclusive too, the moment those 10-year agreements run out. Why do you think they’re doing this?

Yes, it is irrelevant. The industry is not on trial, this one deal is. The FTC just has to decide whether this deal is bad for consumers/competition.

This Activision deal is not the same thing as Sony to buy up smaller studios one at a time. Sony buying a single studio does not significantly change the competitive landscape. This deal is on a completely different level, as the price plainly indicates. Those smaller deals can fly under the radar. The FTC is…

It is not favoritism. It’s just that Sony is not the one being examined here because they are not trying to make a $69B acquisition. I totally agree that Sony is being somewhat hypocritical in their submissions, but the regulators are not going to turn around and start wagging their finger at Sony for their actions —…

I went back for a while during the extra-long season just before Witch Queen, but once the first post-WQ season launched and I just had to do the same stuff again I lost interest pretty fast.