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smroadkill15 said:

shikamaru317 said:

So, I have no idea what Xbox was thinking raising their game prices to $70 while these regulator investigations are ongoing. Their lower price was leverage in these investigations, Sony was trying to claim that Xbox would use their increased market position from the acquisition to jack up their prices above all of the competition, but because Xbox was cheaper than PS, all Xbox had to say to the regulators was "if we ever do raise our prices in the future, it would only be to match the prices of Playstation, who already jacked up their prices because they felt they could afford to due to their strong market position".

I highly doubt this price increase announcement with have any effect on the acquisition outcome. MS is matching what most publishers are already charging, not exceeding. Most of us realized it was going to happen eventually, especially with current gen only games right around the corner. 

Same here. It was either now when all the major cross-gen games are no longer going to be a thing and it’ll be exclusively current-gen going forward, or do it in another year or two after your Starfield, Redfall, and Forza Motorsport, and everyone really would’ve gone wtf since it would be so out of left field with there having already been several current-gen games by that point.