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

[EpicRandy]

BraLoD said:

EpicRandy said:

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.

But then your position isn't on the ABK transaction and its impact on relevant markets but on a political position against the merger in general. It's a perfectly fine position, but you'd have to explain why should MS be the one entity to be reviewed under this different standard.

On the matter of whether MS will take away relevant ABK Ips, MS has more than enough done to ensure it was not the case, they never planned to make CoD exclusive even Jim Ryan never believe it was to be the case. So I think we can fairly put that concern to rest.