Acquisition Wars 2022 – Microsoft, Sony, and the Industry's Future

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With Microsoft's acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision Blizzard, and Sony's of Bungie (in an amusing twist of fate), the so-called "Acquisition Wars" might be in full swing. What does this spell for the future of the industry? Is an oligopoly on the horizon?

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➤ CHAPTERS
0:00 Context; How a Company Acquires Another
4:00 Microsoft's Power and Sony's Goal
8:52 Consumers' Fears: Consolidation and Oligopoly
13:59 Positives? and Sony's Future Acquisitions

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