Well, why does Apple allow Netflix on Apple TV? If people have so many ways to access Netflix anyway, might as well allow it on your platform and collect that 30% revenue fee.

Sure, for Sony it might get in the way of what they're doing with PsNow, but that's not their main focus anyway. Sony is doing it the old fashioned way and wants to lock us into their ecosystem by selling us consoles. But if gaming in the cloud really is the future (which I highly doubt), I'm sure we'll see a bunch of subscription services competing in the same space, kinda like Netflix, Amazon Prime, disney+ now. I'm just not sure that MS has the brand power to win that one either. 

This is a insane purchase..... if MS makes Doom + Wolfenstein + elderscrolls as console exclusives, I could see that pulling alot of sony buyers away.

Crazy move by Microsoft. I love Elder Scrolls and I've always wanted to play the modern Doom games... and well, I'd give the majority of these franchises at least a try.

The Xbox Series S with Gamepass is looking really enticing right now. I'm perfectly happy with the graphics on my Switch, I don't need 4k and can still upgrade to the X later. The Series S + Gamepass combo is a crazy good deal in my eyes. Jesus, I think I'll buy an Xbox this gen.

As for this being anti-consumer: Yes, I see the point and I'm worried this will turn into a huge acquisition war. But to be fair, didn't we have a thread a while ago about which studios Sony should acquire next? Same procedure every single time: If *my* manufacturer does it, it's great. If the competition does it, it's bad. (And that's not directed against Sony fans! I'm fully aware Nintendo fans defend practices they usually despise if Nintendo uses them).

Yeah, Xbox or not, it really doesn't matter to me, I'm computer gamer primarily, ang given that FO is one of my all time favorites (admittedly FO1/2), giving it back to dev consisiting of folks who originally made it is massive for me...I pretty much have written off FO as something I expect to ever have good entry again, but this gives me new hope.

Don't know if this has been posted before, but anyway:

I couldn't agree more. I thought Fallout could only get worse but this is indeed hopeful even if I won't get to play them, lol. Also, the original Fallout is king!

Doom is out now, nothing stopping you buying and playing them now.

On the latter when people talk about what studios Sony (or MS or whoever) buy it's usually a single studio they talk about. MS has purchased a few studios over the last few years, one they've worked closely with (Playground, Forza Horizon games) and some not so closely but they obviously saw promise for future releases (Ninja Theory). No one really had any issues as they were just single independent studios being bought out, they were working for MS already or had their own projects anyway.

Buying an entire competing publisher on the other hand? That's rather more questionable. 

If MS does that I see those IPs losing a lot of their value.

More likely I think those games will still be avaliable on PS, but will be a lot more convenient to play on gamepass

Wow, I just didn't expect that anyone would go there. To buy solitary studios, sure, but to buy a whole frigging huge publisher? Wow.
Okay, I'm only interested in Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Worst case scenario, we won't get them on the PS. That would be a bummer, but I would live with that, still going with Sony because of all the other things. Best case scenario, nothing really changes and we get Elder Scrolls and Fallouts as usual. Nice.
Whatever happens, this is worrying as a whole for the industry. The dominoes, man. What next, the other big players start doing the same? Amazon buys EA and Google buys Ubisoft?

EA is kinda whatever imo, but Ubisoft would be a huge blow.
Thats atleast at the level of zeniMax or higher (probably more expensive to buy too).