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Not that it's a fair comparison because both companies are much more than their gaming divisions, but... Sony's market cap is around $114 billion. Microsoft's is $2.49 trillion.
If MS really decided they wanted full control of the console gaming space, they absolutely have the means to spend Sony into oblivion.
All that said, you'd like to think that government regulators would step in and stop the acquisition train in its tracks if they did try to buy everything up like that.
Definitely, the Activision acquisition has already been blocked so far in the US by the FTC, and looks to be on very shaky ground there.
Initially it was only the UK opposing it. While I may put my tinfoil hat for this, I wonder if the EU Commission was paid off or just clueless. I read their supposed reasoning for this, and all it focuses on is "game streaming" because apparently that's a thing that EU Commissions cares or knows anything about. Worked out real good with Stadia, didn't it.
So what I suspect will happen, if the acquisition goes through is that microsoft gonna set up a shitty game streaming service nobody will want to use, eventually make everything exclusive to ms store and xbox and laugh at the clueless bastards that allow that to happen.
It all depends on whether they got caught. Problem is, Microsoft has always been on the monopoly radar because of Windows and their suit in 2001 They were kinda screwed from the start.
Where are Digital Research, Word Perfect and Lotus 123 today?
They were all dominant player within their field, and killed by Microsoft with illegal means, and I can say and write that without risking lawsuit of slander or libel, because it's proven true.
Microsoft will use illegal means if necessary, and take the court battle if necessary, and drain their competitors until they die.
Law enforcement against monopolies has become a joke. Last attempt to actually uphold it was during the Clinton administration, which Bush killed immediately. Now more than ever money comes first, and consumers second.