Where do you stand on Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard?

[Farsala]

Shinobi-san said:

Farsala said:

I don't really like it. First we have MS buying Activision Blizzard.

What then stops Sony from buying SE?

Valve then buys Ubisoft?

Nintendo buys Namco Bandai or Koei Tecmo?

Amazon buys EA and Sega?

That is only if this deal goes through and MS becomes extremely competitive with the others, then the other corporations feel threatened.

Have not seen any responses to this concern from those that are overly positive about this deal. Is the thinking that Xbox got the biggest publisher therefore they don't care what happens next? Or is the assumption that the other major companies don't have the will or money to follow suite?

I was thinking that the ones excited about something like this think since this basically levels the playing field (in the console space at least, MS has a massive advantage on PC vs Sony and Nintendo), there would be no need for other major companies to acquire more publishers.

But that would be the wrong assumption since this would hurt the bottom line of a company like Sony which relies on gaming as a major profit driver. Sony then would feel the need to acquire something to keep their own lead (and profits level), and we have some sort of domino effect with other companies in my opinion or even yet another major acquisition from MS.