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submitted 1 year ago by juicebox@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

Microsoft can now go ahead and close its giant deal.

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[-] Neato@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Competition means there's choice. Segregating titles that were once across multiple platforms (choice) into individual platforms (no choice) is anti-competitive.

I can't really break it down more than that and I thought this was obvious...

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

You do have choice. You have choice between group of exclusives A and group of exclusives B. It's better for competition but worse for the consumer. In order for it to be better for the consumer and competition, you'd need to eliminate the concept of exclusives entirely. And I'm all for that, but I don't know how to make that happen.

[-] Neato@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's better for competition but worse for the consumer.

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[-] thoro@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Well since exclusives will continue to exist, imagine if, hear me out here, third party titles remained cross platform and group B developed their own set of games at worst through infant studio acquisitions instead of, idk, acquiring the second largest third party publisher in the world (and thus all their studios).

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Then that would be decidedly less competitive between the two consoles.

[-] thoro@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah the poor trillion dollar company couldn't possibly compete with the billion dollar company by organically building an attractive portfolio. It's not like they did it before and only lost their position due to their own mishandling of studios and misunderstanding of the market.

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They seemingly can't compete, so this is how they're making up for the ground that they lost, because right now the console market is not particularly competitive.

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