After this acquisition, Microsoft's gaming market share will gain a whole 4.2%, from the current 6.5% to an estimated 10.7% (according to Newzoo). This is nowhere near the monopoly. Unless they start breaking down the gaming market to specific sub-markets and regions AND if they prove that MS has (or is projected to have) more than 50% of the sales there (not the number of studios or IPs), this is very unlikely to happen.
They're definelty not dominat in the mobile gaming market (including King), zero share in VR/AR, not by a mile in consoles by hardware and software sales. If they look at the Gamepass they're either will need to include whole PC gaming market + streaming, or split GP userbase by platforms, which will reduce the overall sales share to be taken into account. If in the meantime Sony comes up with a similar service, that will only help MS' case. I really don't see that happening. Not in the next decade at least.
Just look at Disney. They went pass the antitrust laws without much problems. People think they own everything now, where in reality their market share is around 30% at best. From our demographic and prefereces perspective it just looks like monopoly.
Last edited by Kristof81 - on 19 January 2022
