This is about Activision purchase. Hey regulators, look we play well with others companies... and 10 years is pretty good right we can buy Activision now right? (10 years 1 day later all Activision games are Xbox XL exclusives)
If MSFT brings Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms via a form of gamepass, that is actually really bad for the economics of game developers, and great for MSFT. They would love to see everyone paying them a subscription fee.
It's been good knowing you, Nintendo. I can see what Microsoft gets out of this, but I don't think it's at all to your advantage long-term. Short term it may be nice (get access to Microsoft's catalog) but long term, it'll bring down your revenue because gamers will spend less (buying more xbox games and streaming them) and publishers will not port to Nintendo; they'll just publish on Xbox/Windows instead of porting.
Sure giving Microsoft a Monopoly isn't a problem if they will defer crushing the competition for 1-2 generations of consoles. When Nintendo's game developers are already using Microsoft products as it is.<p>What a joke. What is Microsoft even sacrificing? Absolutely nothing besides what they gain through the activision merger to begin with.