I wonder when the Sony/Capcom acquisition will finalise? CALLED IT!!

You’re not a very smart person are you?

The same legal system that blocked the FTC is the same one that blocked Donald Trump’s elections claim.

I honestly think the only surprise here is how long this got dragged out. No one expected this to not go through because companies this big are above the laws 

If it’s enough to have a visible effect on the market and consumers, it’s already too much.

If MS continues to only have 20% of the console market share then no, it won’t be a monopoly.

Write this must be very painful for you, right?

Also, while I enjoyed season 1, it definitely had some very rough edges. When season two proved those rough edges were only gonna get rougher, I checked out.

Based on what I had been seeing, the FTC was less ‘doing its job’ and more just trying to defend Sony. I don’t have a horse in the race, since I don’t own either and XBox or anything newer than a PS2, but it just seemed like too many of the FTC arguments focused on how unfair it was for Sony if things went through. 

“Xbox fans and republicans”

“What does consolidation have to do with the availability of physical products?”

The consolidated company decides they don’t want to support physical products because they think anti-consumer subscription models are more profitable.

It’s the same thing that happened with streaming. Now there are shows you literally…

FTC Blasted By Congress And Gamers For Doing Its Job

Bunch of hardcore gamer bros who have never paid any attention to the business/development side of things suddenly all thinking they’re Michael fucking Pachter has to be one of the worst developments through this whole fucking thing.

The FTC lost every point they tried to argue in their case after trying to defend the market leader and spending very little time focusing on actual consumers. Judge Corley said it best the merger may be bad for PlayStation but is good for gamers.
Thankfully the FTC’s request to appeal was denied today so Microsoft…

See, that’s where you went wrong... mistaking anyone that writes for Kotaku for a real journalist.

Actually games cost $70 because surprise, the market leader (Sony) was the first to do it. 

Please explain to me how one would easily build a case against this merger. I’m genuinely curious. MS doesn’t have a monopoly in the relevant markets (Nintendo and Sony have about double its market share) and this merger won’t change that, so the biggest antitrust concern is already off the table. Exclusivity has been…

I really wish journalists like you were required to study at least a bit of basic anti trust and or economics.. and the history of the ftc before using a bizarre title like this. Good god it’s so painful to see this cringe worthy romanticism of anti trust from the teddy roosevelt era.. only instead of oil barrens with…

I don’t know why I haven’t deleted this fed yet...

…not.. at all. i’m so amazed by how brain rot filled everyone is on this topic. the ftc had no case to begin with. this is a vertical merger. because COMPANY BIG!! theres all this horrendously cringe concern trolling about this deal (a deal already approved in 40 countries with no issues)