Submitted 22 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
When you’re right, you’re right.
I’ve been incensed about this since I first heard about the merger over two years ago. The fact that both the US and EU rubber-stamped the deal is easily one of the biggest regulatory failings of the tech sector in the past ten years.
I still can’t believe that the only stipulation was that CoD had to remain available on Playstation.
I don’t think you can blame it all the merger when MS is 3rd behind Sony and Tencent.
In game consoles Sony outsells MS 2 to 1. MS isn’t a monopoly in gaming.
I don’t know many of the details of the price hike, but my first thought was that ms might be trying to put pressure on tariffs via consumer outrage. If people don’t see prices going up they won’t get upset, and absorbing the costs obviously hurts the bottom line.
If my theory is true it’s pretty cowardly to try to force it via consumer sentiment rather than using their considerable weight to fight the bully themselves though.
I think its an internal disagreement.
There have been rumours for a few years now that the price of gamepass was causing issues as it was seen as denying profits from other teams inside microsoft.
Long are the days of Xbots I believe. Most have grown out of gaming and turned into business MAGA bois.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Lina Kahn was the most effective bureaucrat I’ve even heard of. We had a chance to stop these mergers, unwind monopolies, etc. Capitalism worked a whole lot better when there was competition, which in kinda at the root of the idea.
This isn’t capitalism, this is oligarchy.