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ConfusedTorchic posted...

it's only not more competition if they don't do anything, that's not anyones fault but their own at that point.

MS still hasn't made the market better by doing that, though. They're just making things worse and hoping that other people will make them better so they don't have to.

The kind of competition that's actually good for consumers is when competing companies try to offer better products/services than their competitors. That's not what MS will do by taking CoD away from Sony. That's MS failing to provide a better product/service than their competitors, then trying to level the playing field by making those competitors worse instead of doing a better job themselves. That only helps MS, and any long-term improvements for consumers are going to be from their competitors choosing to do better and can't be credited to Microsoft.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

and yet

https://theconversation.com/microsoft-signs-10-year-contract-to-bring-xbox-games-to-nintendo-heres-what-that-means-for-players-200778

it's happening.

And it's still not worthwhile to deal with the technical limitations. Unless those ports prove to be monstrously profitable, beyond any previous forecasts that led to the decision not to make them in the first place, I expect that when that contract expires in 10 years that support will be pulled unless MS feels that it's still necessary to keep the pressure on Sony. This is a business move, not an act of altruism and artistic integrity.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

ah okay. so you have no faith that microsoft will do the stuff they've been doing for years now

Companies don't spend $69 billion dollars acquiring other, highly profitable companies, only to immediately turn around and stop doing everything that made those companies so highly profitable in the first place. That's not how businesses work.