The Competition Tribunal of South Africa has unconditionally approved Microsoft's plan to acquire game publisher Activision Blizzard, although it did not reveal the reasons for its decision.
You had it right in the first bit. MS is legendary for it’s greed and general evil shitbaggery. Gaming isn’t somehow different from all of the other industries that have fallen to monopolies. Consumers are always worse off after diversity has been crushed in a sector.
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You had it right in the first bit. MS is legendary for it’s greed and general evil shitbaggery. Gaming isn’t somehow different from all of the other industries that have fallen to monopolies. Consumers are always worse off after diversity has been crushed in a sector.
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Sony made their bed, and is actually worse by using their market dominance to block 3RD PARTY titles from Xbox.