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JEMC said:

But yeah, CoD is still huge, and it could affect Sony if MSoft decided to keep that game to themselves like they're doing with Bethesda. And maybe this brings some changes to Blizzard that make it finally get out of the hole they've digged themselves into.

Captain_Yuri said:

With some luck, this MS acquisition will hopefully mean Activision/Blizzard games coming back to Steam. Either that or MS will go the opposite route and put their games on Windows store and Battle.net only. Or nothing will change but that's the least likely option.

That's my biggest fear. Back when MSoft tried to compete with Steam, it didn't have much to offer other than Gears of War and Forza, but now they have a huge list of IPs that would move lots of gamers to their store.

Let's hope they keep things as they are, maybe bringing some Acti games to Steam, and focus on getting more people on GamePass.

The question now is, what will Sony do? They need to do something to counter this movement and there are only two possibilities for that: EA or Take-Two.

Sony will certainly need to start buying companies otherwise the longer they wait, the more companies MS will gobble up. The question is whether or not Sony has enough money to buy EA or Take-Two or Ubisoft/etc. Sony's other businesses has been kinda meh afaik. Mobile has been yikes worthy, movies has been affected by covid lockdowns and such and they seem to want to get into the car making business which needs a lot of funding. While Playstation is a success, idk if Sony has anything that gives them nearly limitless funds like Windows and Azure that MS has. Heck, Sony even uses Azure... Not to mention, I am sure the share holders are looking at how much MS is willing to spend and if the time comes, they would probably ask a lot more than the game company is probably worth.

So there's a lot of factors into it but I also don't think Sony has much of a choice but to buy a big profile company. Cause every time MS buys a gaming company, it's another part of Sonys revenue gone. Call of Duty for example is a huge chunk of revenue on Playstation due to 30% cut and once MS makes it exclusive, that's a lot less money for Sony.