because that’s how antitrust works?

You’re looking at the whole company vs whole company.

CoD on Playstation outsells CoD on XBox. Which one is larger in the video game segment?

Sony isn’t getting favoritism, sony is simply not the one in open process of purchasing a massive chunk of the industry. If sony were buying Activision then we’d be talking about Sony, but Microsoft is the one doing it so the focus is, rightfully, on Microsoft. 

You’re looking at the whole company vs whole company. Not division of company vs other division of company.

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…

Especially when your market cap is way over 1800 billion dollars, versus Sony’s less than 14 billion dollars. The size difference of these two corporations is immense. MS can gobble a corporation like Activision-Blizz and it doesn’t even make a blip on their balance sheet.

The reality is that the acquisition would (eventually) stifle competition AND be bad for Sony.

The third-largest company in the world (by market capitalisation in 2022) complains that a company which doesn’t even rank among the top 100 anymore doesn’t let them do what they accuse their competitor of.

Are we really defending Microsoft’s attempt at a bigger monopoly?

Like when Sony bought Bungie and said no Destiny 2 on Xbox? Oh, wait, that’s not what they said. Shit, nevermind. Or when Sony bought Crunchyroll and said it wouldn’t work on Xbox. Oh, shit, again, it didn’t turn out that way.

Where’s all this shit Sony has been doing for over a decade plus? Please inform us.

“Sony is trying to protect its dominance on the console,” Spencer said. “The way they grow is by making Xbox smaller.”

I mean not to blunt but practically all nerd shit is a bubble. This isn’t housing or grain or steel: it’s little bits of coloured paper with drawing and text on them. Its as true with anime figure as with Pokémon cards: spectualive bubbles based on totally artificial rarity, exchange value at its most naked. As…

So basically you're asking us to ignore this woman's problem with people basically taking food off her table... Despite nobody saying that she did anything wrong or giving a reasonable explanation why they went another way despite her being established in the role? Dude, fuck off.

Get ready for the apologists guys, you’ll eventually encounter some of them around.

no, it is dumb. it’s a terrible way to play any game where quick reactions are required, so basically anything not turn-based. the input lag is terrible. and for anyone saying “the lag isn’t noticeable,” you’re just wrong and bad at noticing lag.

It is dumb though. Latency cannot be “resolved”, unless you know a way to violate the laws of physics. It is also fragile, and power inefficient - not only do your frames have to be rendered just like with a home computer/console, they also have to be realtime compressed, which takes time and causes quality…

Is there really a goddamn difference between an article named “Nintendo Of America’s Testers Say They Faced Years Of Sexual Harassment” and one named “Nintendo Of America’s Third-Party-Contracted Testers Say They Faced Years Of Sexual Harassment”? No. Besides, part of the focus of the article is how difficult it was…

Nintendo of Japan does not have a “wholesome” label among its employees and industry veterans in Japan.