Nope. The Soviet Union murdered well over 50 million human beings in its horrific existence. They made Hitler look like a rank amateur.

Who cares what they’d say? Their opinions on the matter are irrelevant.

Not really, but sure. What I’ve described is the idea that mobs or even individuals who work to destroy other people’s lives based on specious claims, with no evidence and no navigation through the legal system, are unjust. And they are.

And what “real point” are you referring to, exactly? “Me Too” has absolutely nothing to do with this issue *at all*.

That’s a ridiculous claim on the best of days. It has NOTHING to do expressly with sexual *anything*. That’s a shallow way of even thinking about the idea.

Maybe less physically violent these days, but yeah, basically. Dissent at your own risk.

No, this is just about the gaming industry, not the whole of Microsoft. If you’re making that claim, then it’s also “the whole of Sony”, which leverages its movies, tv, audio and other businesses to benefit PlayStation as a matter of course. Watch a Sony movie, what computers do you see? Sony. What game…

Yes, and this transaction will not give Microsoft a significant competitive advantage over others. It won’t even level the playing field--Sony is still the top banana, and that’s not going to change simply because MS bought Activision Blizzard any more than it changed because they bought Bethesda.

“Trickle down” is not the law of the land, it was merely Reagan’s observation that when businesses are able to do well, the rest of the country tends to do well, too. That much is undeniably true, though whether it’s extensive enough is, of course, very much debatable.

They’re not going to sell PSVR2 at a loss. Maybe not at a large profit margin, but they’re definitely not spending more than $550 to build and package them.

“The man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client” :p 

The worse thing is that organizations, governments and even individuals are willing to destroy someone (or several someones) over mere *accusations*. Forget trials. Forget evidence. Forget testimony. Forget critical thinking entirely: the alleged “victim” is the only person whose words matter, and everyone else simply…

If Sony’s primary concern was driving adoption, it wouldn’t be $550 with no backwards compatibility. It’d be $299 tops, WITH BC, which would give users a lot of previously released content to enjoy at low prices while the new set’s software library matures.

You just compared software revenue to hardware revenue... 

It’s who’s crushing whom. That said, ps4 more than doubled sales vs Xbox one and ps5 has so far outsold Xbox series X|S by at least 10 million units by most counts. Game sales aren’t even CLOSE.

No, the only question is the games industry, not Microsoft as a whole. The vast majority of Microsoft’s products and services are unrelated to gaming.

The prefix "mono" means "one". There's literally nothing about this deal that would or even could create a monopoly. 

No, it isn’t. This deal in no way creates or remotely less to a monopoly.

“Late stage capitalism” is a myth. According to Marx, capitalism was in its “end stage” 180 years ago, and he expected it to collapse within his lifetime. Instead, it’s grown and changed in material ways, and the world is better off as a result. When Marx was alive, 90% of the world’s population loved in extreme…

There are no monopolies in gaming. This deal would not and could not create a monopoly.