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I'm not convinced that any of Sony's likely targets would break these rules.
If Sony get them to do that it's not necessarily all bad since at least the big acquisitions would stop. Sony would be smart to try to get away with as much as possible going after publishers like Capcom, Sega, SE, CDPR while they still can and use the ABK acquisition to justify it.
Honestly, they have more time to react that people here think. ABK will take a long time for MS to fully integrate and devour and even though the CMA will very likely approve the new deal, the review period in the meantime will buy Sony even more time to prepare. Not to mention Xbox are too incompetent to effectively eat into PS marketshare any time soon.
They would not get away with blocking something like Capcom, CDPR and SE for Sony and then allowing EA or Ubisoft to be acquired by MS. MS is already larger than Sony as far as the amount of devs they have, there is no argument for Sony to simply closing that gap while having a much larger market share to cater to (Sony even port their game to PC these days so MS has no advantage there and all the arguments they used to justify their purchase of ABK would work for Sony).You think that rules or even laws will somehow apply to MS?
Sony can do absolutily nothing outside of what they were already going to do and their market share won't suffer. Nextgen is when it might be at some risk if Xbox survives until then and MS time their moves correctly.
Assuming there is they still have to do something, even if they need to buy studios one at a time. Right now MS just has a much larger number of devs, this is not a reasonable position for Sony to be at if they care about PlayStation long-term.
No, they made them to block Sony. Welcome to the new generation of western countries politicians.You think that rules or even laws will somehow apply to MS?
. Microsoft's next target is T2. T2 doesn't make RPGs or 1st person shooters. Hence, Microsoft can buy them easily.
