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

[BraLoD]

EpicRandy said:

BraLoD said:

One of the biggest companies buying another of the biggest companies is just bad until proven wrong, IMO.
It can end up being good, but this is business, neither MS, or Activision, or Sony, or anyone else care about doing things for it to end up good for the consumer, the very opposite, actually.
Always sad to see people applaud this, but oh well, now some other people will want Sony to go and buy Take Two or something... great...

That's exactly what prompted the FTC to challenge the case as much as they did and, they've been pretty much proven wrong in all their assessment. 

No actor is there for your benefit, on that we agree although no company can simply take consumer money for nothing so they are incentivized to provide a good value proposition at the very least and the more there is competition the more this becomes true.

Sony is free to try and buy whoever they want, that's the principle behind a free market. To prevent someone from exercising this right takes serious and compelling evidence of harm, not just an anti-big-tech sentiment.

It's not because either MS of Sony are free to go and buy other companies (until eventually prevented by monopoly attempt) that it is good, and that is the point of the thread question.

In my view it is not a good thing, at all, and I don't want to see Sony going and make the situation even worse as a comeback.

IMO both should be striking to do better rather than trying to take out stuff from the other to look better.

Taking massively successful/famous third party studios under the onwership of a first party company is not good at all, IMO.