| RSEagle said: I think this is horrible. Industry consolidation is not a good thing. If companies like EA and Activision control the software market, there will be no exclusives and therefore no differentiation between the consoles' lineups. |
I can see many problems arising by industry consolidation, but that's not one of them. It's already very hard to justify buying two HD capable consoles when only a handful of games don't see release on both sides. If all third parties decided to go multiplatform, more games see release on your console.
The real problem I see is the acquisistion of 2K Sports might make sports game in their intirety start getting stale. That is unless EA keeps both series running, which would give me great joy because they would obviously bring back ESPN NFL 2K series. The sales could bounce off both but EA would see all profits, so they wouldn't be opposed to healthy competition between Visual Concepts and Tiburon.
I see the future of this industry in America being ActivisionBlizzard and EA swallowing up companies left and right, competing directly with each other for superiority. EA also has their eyes on Ubisoft, since they have a minority stake in them.
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