Why Do People View the MS Acquisition of ABK as a "Good Thing?"

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It's a good thing because at this point it's obvious that Microsoft has a hard time competing in the gaming space. If Sony is allowed to run away with it all by virtue of Microsoft's ineptitude and AAA third parties' refusal to put their games on Nintendo consoles, then it should be fully expected that Sony will try to pull off garbage. I've heard Sony has ten GaaS titles coming in the next three years and this type of game has a bad reputation for good reasons.

So the acquisition is good for PS gamers because Sony will have to make more games that people care about. Unless of course PS gamers have changed their minds about GaaS in the meantime.

It's good for Xbox gamers because of Game Pass. It's good for PC gamers too.

It's good for Nintendo gamers, at least for the few who care about CoD. Microsoft has been Nintendo's most friendly third party publisher when you exclude Japanese companies.

It's really only bad for Sony, the corporation, for the initially mentioned reason.

There are a lot of people who worry about the leverage Microsoft can get with this acquisition, but with the proposed ten year offers by Microsoft in place, we are talking about the PS7 era here before anything of note can happen. This is very far in the future in console time.

The entire conversation is also incredibly two-faced. People rally against Microsoft as if CoD is going to get pulled from PS (it can't be pulled from Nintendo anyway) - which it won't because of a mandatory ten year contract - but on the other hand they gladly take all the exclusivity deals that Sony makes to block games from coming to other consoles.

"Evil corporation bad, gamers must stand together against acquisitions."
"PS is getting one heavy hitter after another, recently it was Final Fantasy XVI."