Yeah, Sony won't acquire a major publisher, especially not now that the ABK is very likely dead and under these CMA arguments, it also kills Microsoft's ability to acquire most other major publishers so Sony will feel comfort in that.
Besides, Sony as the market leader has a much higher threshold to pass than Microsoft when it comes to SLC...Under FTC's new argument which pits the market as only Xbox/Sony, almost every major publisher acquisition should be blocked, Lol.
But I feel like Microsoft was laying the ground works for acquiring a Japanese publisher by twisting FTC's arguments back on them so we'll see where that goes.
We've yet to even see the full potential of Bethesda on Xbox, no Doom/Elder Scrolls/Wolfenstein, etc. So while Sony will continue to money-hat shit, Xbox has a lot of big guns for the future as well.
I've said it before but these ambitions for Microsoft were really something that "accidentally" fell in their lap, it was a potential to quickly go from 0-100 to grow the overall business massively rather than taking their time (which was likely the plan after Zenimax), likely they just revert back to the original plan.
I have to say as well that anyone who thinks Phil is being fired over this are being crazy. 
Put it this way, if Abk never had the scandals then Microsoft would never be acquiring them. Phil didn't sell the long term vision of Xbox on the basis of ABK. There are many other ways to compete.
Satya is all in. This isn't really Phil's fight anymore, Lol.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 26 April 2023
