Exactly. Sony have spent years leveraging their market leading position to further put them in the lead via paying to keep content and games off Xbox. Their market position is their strength and they leverage it. Microsoft’s strength is their financial power, and they’re now finally leveraging it. Sony need to be pulled back to the pack and pulled in line with their anti-consumer practices. The more market share and dominance they get the worse they get for consumers, as they’ve shown many times.
The same execs that bought the company already half way through development of Starfield, and rather than delivering anything new or of value, only wanted to make sure it was extinguished on other systems?
Sony were reportedly in talks to purchase full exclusivity of Starfield, so can’t blame MS.
We want a more competitive landscape. Sony trouncing the competition isn’t the way to a good and healthy industry. This “consolidation” only harms people that refuse to buy an xbox or a pc or use game streaming services…so basically only people that will only buy a Playstation.
Sony wouldn’t, and shouldn’t, be allowed to buy them even if they could afford them. They’re the market leader and we know they would make everything exclusive straight away.
The only other options are companies like Embracer, Tencent, Amazon, or Apple. None of them would be good. Microsoft are basically going to maintain the status quo, while opening up the games to more people on more services.
At least 10 years, likely never. Just like how Minecraft is still multiplatform on every device under the sun, COD/Diablo/etc will be too because that’s what their strength is - huge userbases.