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Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email
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It’s a bummer that the government wasn’t able to stop the recent acquisition of activision, but hopefully that cooled Microsoft’s eagerness a little.
It’s not done yet, definitely still a good chance it’s blocked. I don’t think it should be, but it very well could be.
Why do you think corporate consolidation should happen? Every time it does it benefits the corporations and never the consumer. Anti-trust is incredibly important to keep business from taking control of aspects of our culture and socialization.
This corporate consolidation helps more people than it hurts.
Corporate consolidation isn’t just always a bad thing. This would be a good thing for basically everyone that’s not exclusively a PlayStation-only player.
No corporate consolidation is how you end up with companies like Sony to begin with. And even then, they’re funding the creation of new pop culture while this is Microsoft wanting to grab up existing culture so they can profit from it. One is an example of something being created and the other is something being hoarded.
Any short term benefit a consumer sees from consolidation is simply a cost the corporation pays to achieve a scenario where they no longer have to provide those benefits. Microsoft is already very well know for the Embrace, Envelop, Extinguish strategy so assuming good will on their part is painfully naïve.
Corporations are not your friend and don’t care about your well-being, they just want your money.
I didn’t say corporations are my friend though. I know they’re not. What Microsoft are doing though benefits me as a consumer since I play games on Xbox and pc and subscribe to game pass. Them buying ABK is good for me as I will then get more games on game pass.
Sony are funding “keep that game off Xbox” left right and centre for the last 10 years, increasingly so, so Microsoft are just playing that same game but doing it their way.
Bringing up EEE is ridiculous.