There are no natural business monopolies. The only monopolies we do have are those sanctioned by government, delivered courtesy of specialty crafted regulations. See: cable companies who for decades were insulated against competition. See: industries such as cherry or raisin farming, who used government protected…

You literally have no evidence at all that this is bad for gamers. But here are several ways in which it’s good:

Yeah that's never gonna happen. I've heard that story since the days of Atari. It's the perception that comes when the only knowledge of economics one has is the board game "Monopoly", which is nothing at all like the real world. 

Microsoft did nothing wrong with IE in terms of giving it away. The problem was entirely that Nutscrape threw a temper tantrum and started using every penny they had to sue rather than compete and make their browser worth paying for.

True! But that was before Nintendo had the tech of Switch. Assuming Switch 2 continues the momentum, CoD's player base has a lot of room to grow on Nintendo. 

Tons of ways. Those games currently aren’t available to stream at all. Now they’ll be available on numerous platforms.

Microsoft as a company, counting all its products and services, is larger than Sony. Nobody denied that. But Xbox is MUCH smaller than Playstation or Nintendo. All this does is give them an extra feather in their cap to compete with.

Gamers win big here, actually. ABK games will mostly be on multiple platforms, including numerous streaming providers.

Lol not likely. 

Bring happy about this has NOTHING to do with “big company monopolies”.

Some people are ADDICTED to feeling angry. 

And yet, how many movie characters are motivated by their father/brother/male friends being murdered?

This isn't media criticism, this is *whining*. There's a difference. 

My god, storytellers making choices about the fictional characters in their fictional worlds having fictional deaths is just so unjust! How dare they play with the lives of words on paper like that!

Console exclusives exist all the way to the Dawn of consoles. 

He’s not correct. Condoms have had exclusives since at least *Atari 2600*. Sony uses and often abuses exclusives (meaning third party excited), but by no means did they invent the practice. They weren't even *interested* in game consoles when exclusive games were born. 

7th Gen was dominated by Wii, actually. 

Ps3 caught up to Xbox 360 after 360 was discontinued and been 8 launched, simply because Sony kept selling the PS3 for awhile longer. Luke it out but, 7th Gen was won by Wii, 360 ran 2nd so the way to the end. Catching up after the race is over isn't a win, except of course I'm the only way that matters: they made…

I thought it was great. WAY better than discovery or Picard. 

Local Plex server ftw.