| EpicRandy said: With current accepted EU remedies, MS can't add fees on streaming games for at least 10 years. Ten years should be enough for the cloud to precise itself, after that, I don't see how ABK Ips can give Xbox more of a dominant than the one judged insufficient in the console market space today even without consideration for Sony deals and the Nintendo ones like pretty much all the regulatory bodies have ruled on this. |
I'm not saying they are adding additional fees, I'm saying they already come out with better margins than the other cloud based companies. Because they WILL get revenue from other streaming services for Call of Duty. Add that to the massive infrastructure they already have and their deep pockets, MS is perfectly capable of undercutting ANY competition.
Call of Duty has been the top IP for, what, 16 or 17 years? No company has been able to make an IP that proves significantly competitive to that franchise. The IP is more likely to remain the juggernaut it is today than it is not to. And, again, this is not JUST about the cloud, but about sub services overall. With this, MS has a massive advantage that it's competition will not be able to compete with. Using judicial ruling as evidence that others will be able to compete is ignoring the overwhelming amount of oligopolies we currently have in western society. We have done a bad job of regulating companies. A judge ruling in favor of MS isn't surprising, it's par for the course, and doesn't make it "right" just legal. The fact is, other companies generally don't have the resources to compete unless they merge with another larger company. Which is what will probably happen eventually. Whether it be Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sega, Square, etc. We are already seeing this mass consolidation at work.
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