Is a very funny line.

Why use number of releases when talking about popularity? Don’t a few dozen games (at most) dominate sales? The vast majority of those 2000+ titles are totally irrelevant.

The FTC’s fixation on exclusivity is pretty baffling. It’s like they’re unaware that it’s been a standard industry practice for oh, 30 years or so? Like, no shit MS wants exclusives. So do Nintendo and Sony. Proving that MS wants exclusives doesn’t strengthen their case in any way because exclusivity isn’t illegal or…

Gotta love how this is being talked about like it’s an unsolved problem, as if there aren’t two major competitors who figured out this issue two console generations ago. Not that we shouldn’t be, of course—it just shows how skeptical we are of Nintendo’s ability to get this right on a basic level, lmao

The only bombshell I see here is that Fallout 76 is apparently hitting 10 million monthly users. Whaaa?

Ethan, your fanboy is showing. Here’s the stuff that you left out.  This case has done nothing but make the FTC look ignorant.

Single studio that makes a single game vs merger of two very large publishers. There’s not really any real antitrust concern around Sony owning Bungie, any more than there was when Microsoft acquired Obsidian or Double Fine.

I don’t get why some studios get so petty with credits. It costs nothing to put an extra name in the credits. All they get by omission is bad karma and bad PR.

Burying the lede a bit here, Zack. Here’s the juicy bit to me, about how Microsoft might be able to spend Sony out of business by acquiring a bunch of studios, but “that was an old strategy”, thought up way in the distant past of 2019:

Elephant? More like mammoth 

So to cover up for bad management and enable crunch . Great reasons guys

No, I’m sorry, this is rubbish.

Elephant in the room:

I mean its entirely nonsensical to post this here randomly but which part of this is "liberal"? 

I’m going to reply to this only because you need to be embarrassed publicly.

It was the 80s, you think the editor wasn’t blasted out of his mind on coke while reading it?

I thought I’d read somewhere that he sold the rights for the Shawshank movie for $1000 (and then gave back the $1000 after seeing the brilliant film adaptation).  

For a guy who once, in a cocaine fueled haze, wrote a teenage gangbang in the sewers, King is pretty damned wholesome.

Contrary to what the article says, the video itself explicitly says that the “Resurrected Old Smosh” content will be on the Main Channel, while Pit and Games will be continuing unchanged with their current casts, shows, etc.

You shut your filthy mouth, Kupo