Sony hiring a manager to "identify and execute inorganic growth opportunities through acquisitions, investments or joint ventures"
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Not really this is a result of capitalism. Companies seek to be gobbled up by those with more capital. Tencent is bigger than Microsoft in gaming and they're still buying stuff.Still not a fan of consolidation, but this unfortunately inevitable once it became clear that the Activision deal was going to go through. Businesses gonna business.
And it's the reason capitalism needs strong regulations. Consolidation has never been beneficial for any industry in the long run. I don't know why yall think this time will be different.
Unless they make third party exclusives illegal the consolidation has already happened.
Care to elaborate how third party exclusives (timed or not) lead to where we are?
I don’t agree due to the fact those same 3rd party developers have options to release exclusives on other platforms (sunset overdrive) or simply make timed exclusives.
The large scale consolidation started with 3rd parties (activision, ea, embracer, etc).
This was all covered in the trial thread in which you were very active.
Yea, don't recall, but do you.
I am, it's Friday. Argue with meach. I got debauchery to do
When that Cyberpunk sequel is a Sony exclusive and Xbots pretend they hated 2077. 
Contracting developers to develop a product is far different than consolidation.
Facebook investing in a team of developers to develop features for Facebook is not the same as Facebook buying Instagram.
But what you’re describing isn’t what was happening.
Imagine if Google only worked on chrome?
At the core it was established that Sony used its market share to provide incentives for 3rd party exclusives.
It doesn’t make sense for 3rd party companies to do that for other platforms because they lack a similar install base.
As a result, companies just started buying them up.
I really don't get why stans want Sony to go blow for blow with Microsoft. They should not try to match acquisitions, that's fukking dumb. Just keep doing what you're doing and put out more games