Sony invests $250m in Epic Games to acquire a minority stake

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DonFerrari said:

sales2099 said:

It’s not the same, MS buys studios to combat Sony’s gaming monopoly. Sony buying studios is meant to maintain their monopoly. Not that I’m against monopolies (looking at MSs OS in case you retort with that) but I do believe we all win if there’s enough marketshare to go around like 360/PS3. Xbox getting scraps like this gen will just make another Nintendo which is forced to make underpowered yet unique hardware to stay in the game. I prefer Xbox to remain a “traditional” competitor in the gaming space. 

What monopoly?

If you are talking gaming as a whole then Sony revenue is like what 5% of the total revenue in gaming?

If you want to exclude smartphone gaming and PC and just put on dedicated devices, then perhaps Sony revenue is like what 20% of the total revenue?

Even if you then want to consider only the console gaming and exclude third party for shit and giggles you would have Sony at 70% against MS 30%?

There isn't any way you can put gaming as a Sony monopoly.

Console gaming, if you weren’t clear on my perspective. Total games sold (1st and 3rd) ratios between PS4/Xbox is staggering. In terms of traditional console gaming Sony gets the lions share and Xbox gets the scraps. Seems obvious to me that MS seeks to disrupt that next gen, and they should. 

Still support the idea of the ecosystem overtaking PS, but the console space has plenty market share in itself to take back cant deny that.