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KazumaKiryu said:

Why is Shikamaru omitting the background and not mentioning Microsoft's payment for the US politician?
Microsoft pays American politicians to publish false government-level statistics and tries to weaken Sony.
Right? 500.000 Dollar for US-Senatorin Maria Cantwell, by Microsoft. Or is it not official ?
Instead of producing their own big, legendary games - the biggest publishers and brands (Minecraft, Call of Duty, ect) are bought by Microsoft.
PS5 games that were in production at Bethesda have been canceled, according to the developer. So Microsoft lie again.
Nintendo is completely excluded from the statistics because they are too unimportant according to Microsoft. When asked why PlayStation is so much more popular in Japan, the response was cautious. The interest of the Japanese people probably doesn't matter. Microsoft also criticizes the fact that so few Japanese developers want to work with their group. It is ironic that Microsoft accuses its competition of monopoly. Microsoft has bought more studios and ip's in recent years than Sony.
Sony could have bought maaaany the studios in the PS2 era, but didn't - because laws and rules come first in the world. the big US group Microsoft wants to take further steps to directly weaken Sony - even outside of America. Its easy to see. Only for fanboys is this cool, for all Gamer not. In my opinion, this is a scandal for microsoft, if this all true.

If it's not in the article I was posting, I didn't omit anything. I see nothing in that article about Xbox paying off US politicians. They have almost certainly donated to many politician's campaigns, all the big corporations do, but campaign donations are not quite the same as bribing government officials for quid pro quo benefits, that would be illegal if Microsoft did that.

Xbox is both creating their own big games and acquiring others. They have staffed up most of their studios by a substantial amount over the last few years, some staffing up from AA size to a more AAA capable size. 

It was actually Sony who excluded Nintendo from the market first, not Microsoft. Sony told regulators that Nintendo competes for a different subset of consumers than Playstation and Xbox do, after Xbox cited Switch's success in spite of CoD not releasing on it as proof that Sony doesn't truly need CoD. Their own made up "high-end console market" term is being used against them now. 

Sony did buy a good many studios during the PS2 era, Guerilla, Naughty Dog, Bend Studio, Incognito Entertainment, and Zipper Interactive were acquired by Sony during the 2000-2006 life of PS2. They didn't buy more than they did not because the regulators wouldn't allow it, but because they didn't believe buying more would be a worthwhile investment. At that time Sony still preferred their other divisions to Playstation and were spending more on them, it was shortsighted and cost them somewhat in the long run.