An excellent segment, Biden has surprised me quite few times already, we'll see. 

Well, regulators (or it might just be the FTC?) have defined Xbox and PS as their own market. So it makes sense why they're only using Xbox+PS. Plus I'm pretty sure if they included Nintendo their market share numbers would dwindle to even lower percentages.

The is a reason regulators want to discount Nintendo. They scuttle their entire argument. The Switch is the 3rd best selling game system of all time and it's never had a Call of Duty title. Nintendo's success flies in the face of their narrative that CoD is required for success. Sony was the a far larger company when it entered the industry and leveraged that to great success. As of yet, MS hasn't been able to do the same after over two decades in the console space. They used Sony's playbook but haven't had the same results. I really hate having to defend MS because I don't like all this industry consolidation. However Sony's position and that of most regulators don't hold water. You can't ignore something because it doesn't fit your narrative. Sony is acting like the kid that cries and takes the ball home when the game isn't going their way.

Yes, absolutely agree with everything you stated. 

I think it’s hard to blame Sony for doing everything they can to stop the aquisition as it would potentially deal a major blow to them. But by no means would they be unable to compete and that should be clear to regulators.

These are both giant companies that exist only to make money. They're not a person with feelings and emotions. They're a company whose job is to suck money out of your wallet and put it into the wallets of shareholders. That is literally the only thing they care about. That is why they exist. Acting like one is better than the other, on a moral or ethical level, is just total nonsense.

With that said, it is reasonable to support or oppose specific actions of a big company. In this case, Sony is trying to sic government on their competitor in order to protect their market position. I don't see how any reasonable human can support this. It is a giant company using government to help them suck more money out of your pocket.

Will Microsoft also use government to help them suck more money out of your pocket? Of course they will, when given the opportunity. They're a giant company that doesn't give a fuck about you. But, *in this specific case*, they are the ones with the morally and ethically sound position. They are trying to fight off government that is being wielded by a big business. This is objectively the right side to be on in this case.

People that are cheering on Sony here are making themselves look ridiculous. They are literally cheering on corporatism, one of the worst things that we deal with in modern society.

it doesn't necessarily scuttle any argument it a bit like saying Sony never had Mario but they had the best selling games system of all time, so Mario isn't important to Nintendo, but even that isn't a real issue, the issue that should be considered is whether or not all those games (COD is really a proxy for all of them) being owned by MS as opposed to 3rd party will benefit the consumer.

We are in the age of subscription models and ecosystems like PS plus and game pass with the elevated importance of having access to product on your service in both growing your service and retention now sees an age where content ownership  is rated high enough to not only overcome the old adage of why pay for ownership of a product we get anyway but to do it on a scale never seen before in gaming, so the trend toward these services and how they have reshaped the games industry means that these deals are more likely to be put under the microscope.

The counterpoint then becomes well you were already getting those games so unless you leverage your ownership to benefit you how does it stop the slaughter. 

Yes it always been an odd argument as if MS is somehow forced into this because of Sony's marketing methods,and they can find spend 65 billion but couldn't spend money on there own cod marketing deals .

Microsoft doesn't agree with you on that one.